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by: John T. Flynn

 : As We Go Marching: A Biting Indictment of the Coming of Domestic Fascism in America





Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780914156000
ISBN: 0914156004
Label: Free Life Editions
Manufacturer: Free Life Editions
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 1973
Publisher: Free Life Editions
Studio: Free Life Editions
Sales Rank: 1367604








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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Political Realities vs. Political Labels
John T. Flynn's book titled AS WE GO MARCHING is indeed a classic study of Fascism whatever that political disapproval word means. Flynn's study gives the historical background to late 19th century and early 20th century Italy and German. The book concludes with the U.S. political and economic schemes before, during, and after World War I. Flynn also compares U.S. economic planning and control with that of "Fascist" Italy and Germany.

Flynn introduces readers to the economic realities ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Well written study of the economic roots of fascism
John T Flynn was a business journalist who originally covered graft and Wall Street scandals in the 1920s and 1930s. Originally a supporter of Roosevelt, he came to believe the New Deal's compulsory cartels under the NRA was a betrayal of traditional 'trust busting' liberalism. He saw FDR's massive reliance on public borrowing and deficit spending, rather than fiscal reform, was dangerous. A former Nye Committee investigator, Flynn was involved in Nye's exposure of the role major banks and munitions makers ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The Roots of American Fascism.
_As We Go Marching_ by John T. Flynn, first published in 1944 during the Second World War, and reprinted in The Right Wing Individualist Tradition in America series, is an attempt to come to grips with fascism by an opponent of the New Deal and a non-interventionist. Flynn, who began his career as a proponent of progressive economic policies, came to oppose Roosevelt's New Deal policies and the entry of the United States into the Second World War. In this book, Flynn predicts how these policies are leading ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A Hard Look In The Mirror
"As We Go Marching" is a three-part examination of fascism in Italy (part 1) and Germany (part 2). Part 3 ties things together with an examination of Franklin D. Roosevelt's so-called "New Deal."

The book covers periods from the mid-1800's, the time of the respective unification of Italy and Germany, to mid-WWII. Briefly, neither Mussolini nor Hitler laid the foundations, let alone invented, the social-government systems that supported their regimes. Both systems of fascism, Italian and German, ... Read More



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