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New York: John T. Flynn, 1946. First edition. Pamphlet. Stapled wraps, 6 x 9 inches, 8 pp. Printed on newsprint. Small closed tears to tail edge and chipping to edges. Browning to newsprint. Very scarce, with only four showing in OCLC institutions (Northwestern University, University of Tulsa, University of Oregon, and Stanford University). Very good.. A scarce pamphlet written and published by journalist, author, and polemicist of the "Old Right," John T. Flynn (1882-1964). Flynn began his career as a journalist at the New Haven Register before becoming an editor at the New York Globe specializing in finance. During the 1920s and 1930s Flynn would grow into a prominent social and political commentator, contributing columns to national publications such as the New Republic, Harper's Magazine, and Collier's Weekly. Flynn was an early supporter of President Roosevelt, but was soon disillusioned by the New Deal's centralization of federal power, bureaucratic expansion, and reliance upon debt to finance… Read More

New York: John T. Flynn, 1945. Second edition, revised; a follow-up to his privately-printed pamphlet The Truth About Pearl Harbor (1944). Pamphlet. Stapled newsprint, 6 x 9 inches, 15 pp. An uncommon privately printed pamphlet. Browning and offsetting to newsprint wrappers with chipping to corners, else very good.. A privately printed pamphlet published by John T. Flynn (1882-1964) as a follow-up to his 1944 pamphlet The Truth About Pearl Harbor. Flynn, an anti-war journalist and staunch critic of President Roosevelt, was among the first to publicly question the events surrounding the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. In September 1944, Flynn privately printed a pamphlet, The Truth About Pearl Harbor, in which he argued that President Roosevelt's administration had advanced knowledge regarding a possible Japanese attack on the US. Flynn's The Truth About Pearl Harbor was also published in the Chicago Tribune in October 1944 and spurred other journalists to critically evaluate the events… Read More

New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1953. First edition. Duodecimo. Wrappers. Minor scuffing to wrappers, else near-fine.. John T. Flynn's (1882-1964) account of the story of Owen Lattimore (1900-1989) and the alleged American betrayal of China and Korea into communism. Flynn was an American journalist, anti-communist, and the author of While You Slept (1951) in which he examined the various forces responsible for the Korean War. Flynn took an interest in the case of Owen Lattimore, a journalist and Asian policy scholar who was alleged to be a leading Soviet espionage agent in 1950. In the 1930s Lattimore served as editor of Public Affairs, a journal published by the Institute of Pacific Relations, and held professorships throughout his life, including at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Leeds. Lattimore also acted as an advisor to the American government during World War II with respect to its policy in Asia. In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy accused Lattimore of being an influential… Read More

New York: John T. Flynn, 1947. First edition. Pamphlet. Stapled wraps, 6 x 9 inches, 30 pp. Browning to newsprint, otherwise very good.. An exceptional version of this pamphlet written and self-published by John T. Flynn (1882-1964) in which Flynn "tells the story of one of the strangest chapters in our history-the story of private gestapos formed to terrorize citizens who differ with the objectives of the operatives." Their purpose, he asserts, "is to frighten into silence all who dare question their plans at home and abroad. This story is told here for the first time." Flynn then details the methods by which communist sympathizers, among others, coordinate to defame and smear the reputations of anti-communist writers, journalists, and politicians. Flynn was a journalist, author, and polemicist of the "Old Right," and remained ardently opposed throughout his life to the centralization and militarization of the U. S. government. Flynn helped create the America First Committee in 1940, which lobbied… Read More

Washington, D.C.: Young Americans for Freedom, Inc, 1960. Pamphlet. Stapled wrappers, 5.5 x 8 inches, 40 pp. Rare pamphlet with minor rubbing and a very small spot to front wrap, else near fine. OCLC locates no copies.. A rare pamphlet from the early years of Young Americans for Freedom with the biographies of the group's speakers and their areas of expertise together with a reprint of the Sharon Statement on the rear wrap. The Sharon Statement was adopted on September 11, 1960 by a group of one hundred young conservatives who convened at the home of William F. Buckley Jr. in Sharon, Connecticut with the purpose of creating Young Americans for Freedom. The organization was founded to promote the ideals of individual freedom, strong national defense, and traditional values. YAF chapters soon spread to college campuses throughout the US and proved instrumental in the nomination of conservative Barry Goldwater as the Republican candidate for president in the 1964 presidential election. YAF proved an… Read More