John Thomas Flynn

From The Road Ahead, John Thomas Flynn 1949

Human societies come under the influence of great tides of thought and appetite that run unseen deeply blow the surface of society. After a while these powerful streams of opinion and desire move the whole social mass along with them without the individuals in the mass being aware of the direction in which they are going. Up to a certain point it is possible to resist these controlling tides and to reverse them, but a time comes when they are so strong that society loses its power of decision over the direction in which it is going.

I believe we are now [1949, etc] moving along under the dominion of such tides and that all the things we do to deal with our accumulating perils are futile because we do not understand the tides nor the direction in which they are carrying us. I believe that we still have in our hands the means of checking this onrush to disaster. We still may consciously control our destiny. But I feel sure that we are moving toward a crisis which will be for us the moment of decision. It will be at that point we will either use or lose our final opportunity to determine the direction along which this nation [and others] will travel.

( page 7 )

New York : Devin-Adair 1949.

From The Way of the Free, Stefan Osusky 1951

John T. Flynn�s The Road Ahead,⁴ comes at a moment when [the] public . . . is becoming increasingly aware that there are forces afoot which are impatient with the present state of things. Its success and popularity indicated that the book corresponds to a very definite and urgent need for guidance of the reading public in the United States.

      ⁴ John T. Flynn, The Road Ahead, Devin-Adair Co., New York, 1949.

New York : Dutton 1951.

From While You Slept, John Thomas Flynn 1951

The purpose of this book is not to record a history of the war. Its aim is to discover how our great, free nation, guarded against such a disaster by a Constitution and a long heritage of ideals, could be brought into such a struggle, involving objectives so dimly seen, stretching on to problems so insoluble, . . . (etc).

[. . .]

Before this was possible, something, over a course of years, had to be done to the minds of the American people. The purposes of this book is to explore the techniques by which this job was done and to identify, if possible, the agencies and the men responsible for it. I am aware that the reader will find himself asked to believe statements which seem in themselves incredible. In these last 20 years this country has become a laboratory for the dark and insidious science of modern revolutionary propaganda. It is difficult for the American to realize that the ideas, the prejudices, the convictions he holds may have been deliberately—though slyly—planted in his mind by men who have a settled purpose in performing that operation, who possess the instruments of thought control and understand how to operate them. Miracles can be wrought by those who know this art.

Never has there been so large and so generally sophisticated a population so defenseless against such an enterprise as the people of America. Generous in their attitudes, disturbed a a long siege of war, exposed to the most powerful engines of propaganda the world has ever known, they have been a mark for the experts trained in their use.   ( pages 10-11)

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There were traitors in the State Department and in posts of power in many departments of the government. Many of the men who are now being hustled off to jail were exercising a controlling influence at those key positions where decisions are made. It is not easy to uncover the real moral and intellectual disease which took possession of the minds of so many men in places of power. It is easy enough to diagnose the case of those men who were outright Communists or half-convinced fellow travelers. They knew what they believed and what they were aiming at. The trouble lies in tracing the illness which possessed the minds of men who were neither Communists nor socialists, yet who cold be afflicted with some disorder that brought them down to a point where they saw our problems almost precisely as the Reds saw them, and led them to become, in some cases the deluded, and in some cases the completely blind partners of the enemy.

These aberrations led to a shockingly false conception of the war and its objectives and its meanings. In turn, by the most gigantic propaganda assault in history, they set out to fool the American people about the war and its purposes.

The result is that the war is not yet over for us. Indeed, the war in its most dangerous aspects has really only begun. Germany, Japan and their several allies have been defeated. But the real enemy remains, his strength enormously increased by our aid and his power sprawling all over Europe and Asia.

The enemy is communism. Stalin is merely its high priest and Russia is merely its GH! [General Headquarters. (WPT)]. The war was and is upon our concept of life, and the Communist generals know that there is only one stronghold to be stormed and taken. That is the United States of America. They know, too, that this is not to be accomplished just by war against our armies and upon the seas. They know it is to be achieved by war upon our system of life—our system of government and of economic organization. And they know that already there is here among us an army of foolish men—some of them instructed—who have come amongst us . . .  But many more�far more�are those deluded Americans who agree with this diseased philosophy and who have learned from Europe, from its Red and its Black dictators�the Stalins and the Hitlers and the Mussolinis�that there are numerous groups who can be incorporated in their social armies of discontent�all sorts of people, good and bad, mostly deluded, who can be captured by appeals to their hatreds and their appetites.

( pages 185-6 )

New York : Devin-Adair 1951.

From The Autobiography of George Samuel Schuyler, 1966

One of the most daringly ambitious plans of the communists was to control and direct the literary output of American writers under the guise of protecting their financial interests. There were too many �misled� intellectuals in Hollywood and across the country who were willing to go along with the plan. But a large number of writers who were not taken in by Communist propaganda formed the American Writers Association. I can recall offhand such people as John Erskine, Suzanne LaFollette, John T. Flynn, Richard Romanecy, Edna Lonigan, Louis Waldman, Alfred Kohlberg, Zora Neale Hurston, Norman Thomas, and scores of others. We met periodically at the New Weston, the Waldorf-Astoria, the Roosevelt, or some other hotel in midtown Manhattan, and as a member of the executive board and finally as vice-president, I attended all of the meetings.

We so successfully aroused the literary community of the country that the various authors� and writers� leagues rejected the plan and it was defeated overwhelmingly. If it had succeeded, every author and dramatist would have submitted his writings to a central pool where it would have been passed upon, selected or rejected, by a board which the Communists would have made sure to control. Thus, an anti-Communist or non-Communist writer would have been out of luck even if he had the genius of Shakespeare or Flaubert.

Black and Conservative; the autobiography of George S. Schuyler.
New Rochelle, New York : Arlington House 1966, pages 271-2.

Bibliographic, sources : http://melvyl.cdlib.org etc.

Flynn, John T. (John Thomas), 1882-1964. Title(s) The Roosevelt myth / by John T. Flynn. Edition 50th anniversary ed. Publisher San Francisco : Fox & Wilkes, 1998. Paging xxiv, 437 p. ; 23 cm. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-423) and index. [ Los Angeles Public Library ]

Flynn, John T. (John Thomas), 1882-1964. Title Forgotten lessons : selected essays by John T. Flynn / edited by Gregory P. Pavlik. Imprint Irvington-on-Hudson, NY : Foundation for Economic Education, 1995. Edition 1st ed. Descript vii, 199 p. ; 23 cm. Note Includes index. Subject United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1953. Add'l name Pavlik, Gregory P. [ New York Public Library ]

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title Men of wealth; the story of twelve significant fortunes from the Renaissance to the present day. Imprint Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1971] Descript xi, 531 p. ports. 23 cm. Series Essay index reprint series. Note Reprint of the 1941 ed. [ New York Public Library ]

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964 Uniform Title [ While you slept, our tragedy in Asia and who made it] Title While you slept / by John T. Flynn Publisher Belmont, Mass. : Robert Welch, Inc., 1961 Description 100 p. : maps ; 23 cm Series American Opinion reprint series Language English Note Cover title Reprint of ed. published by Devin-Adair under title: While you slept, our tragedy in Asia and who made it Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-100)

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964 Title The Roosevelt myth Publisher New York : Devin-Adair Co., 1961,[c1956] Description 465 p. : illus. ; 21 cm Language English Note Includes bibliography Subject Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964 Title The road ahead : America's creeping revolution Publisher New York : Devin-Adair Co., 1961 Description 160 p. ; 22 cm Language English Note Includes bibliography

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title The hand in your pocket : it's the "Little Man" who pays the most income taxes / by John T. Flynn. Publisher New York : America's Future, Inc., c1959. Description 15 p. Series An America's Future pamphlet

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title The Roosevelt myth. Publisher New York, Devin-Adair Co. 1956. Description 465p. map. Language English Note Includes bibliography. Subject Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964 Title The decline of the American Republic and how to rebuild it Publisher New York, Devin-Adair, 1955 Description 212 p. 21 cm

Flynn, John T. (John Thomas), 1882-1964. Title McCarthy : his war on American reds, and the story of those who oppose him. Imprint [New York : America's Future, Inc., 1954?]. Descript 12 p. ; 23 cm. Subject McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957. [ New York Public Library ]

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title The Lattimore story. Publisher New York, Devin-Adair, 1953. Description 118 p. 20 cm. Language English Subject Lattimore, Owen, 1900-

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title While you slept; our tragedy in Asia and who made it. Publisher New York : Devin-Adair, 1951. Description 192 p. illus. 22 cm.

Flynn, John T. (John Thomas), 1882-1964. Title The road ahead; : America's creeping revolution. Publisher New York, : Distributed by the Committee for Constitutional Government by special arrangement with Devin-Adair, 1949. Description 207 p. ; 19 cm.

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title The road ahead, America's creeping revolution. Publisher New York, Devin-Adair Co., 1949. Description 160 p. 22 cm.

Flynn, John T. (John Thomas), 1882-1964. Title Il mito di Roosevelt. Imprint Milano, Longanesi & c. [1949] Descript 642 p. 18 cm. Series Il Mondo nuovo ; v. 22 Note "Traduzione dall'inglese di Maria Celletti." [ New York Public Library ]

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883- Title The Roosevelt myth Publisher New York, Devin-Adair [c.1948] Description x, 438 p. 22 cm Language English Note Bibliography: p. 426-429 Subject Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title The epic of freedom, by John T. Flynn. Publisher Philadelphia, Pa. : Fireside press, inc., [c1947] Description xii p., 2 L., 17-127 p. 21 cm. Language English Note "A suggestion for reading": p. 125-126.

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title The smear terror. Imprint New York, c1947. Descript 30 p. 23 cm. Note "First appeared in the Chicago tribune, running serially beginning Sunday Jauary 12, 1947." [ New York Public Library ]

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964 Uniform Title [ Truth about Pearl Harbor] Title The final secret of Pearl Harbor / by John T. Flynn Publisher New York City : J.T. Flynn, [1945] Description 15 p. ; 23 cm Language English Note Rev. ed. of: The truth about Pearl Harbor Cover title

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title The truth about Pearl Harbor. [Microform] By John T. Flynn ... Imprint Glasgow, The Strickland Press, 1945. Descript 46 p., 1 l. 22 cm. Note Microfilm. New York, N.Y.: New York Public Library, 19--.

Flynn, John T. (John Thomas), 1882-1964. Title The truth about Pearl Harbor / by John T. Flynn. Publisher New York City : J.T. Flynn, [1944] Description 32 p. ; 23 cm. Language English Note Cover title. Photocopy.

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title Meet your Congress, by John T. Flynn. Publisher Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran and company, inc., 1944. Description 157 p. 19cm. Language English Note First edition.

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title As we go marching, by John T. Flynn. Publisher Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran and co., inc., 1944. Description viii, 272 p. 21 cm. Language English Note "First edition." Note Bibliography: p. 259-263.

Can Hitler invade America? / compiled by John T. Flynn for the America First Committee Publisher Chicago, Ill. : The Committee, [1941?] Description 12 p. : maps ; 24 x 11 cm Language English Note Cover title

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title Men of wealth ; the story of twelve significant fortunes from the renaissance to the present day / by John T. Flynn. Publisher New York : Simon and Schuster, 1941. Description xi, 531, [1] p. : ports. ; 24 cm. Language English Contents Fugger the Rich.--John Law.--The Rothschilds.--Interlogue one: Cosimo de' Medici, Sir Thomas Gresham, Jacques Coeur. The art and industry of make-up. Writers as money-makers.--Robert Owen.--Cornelius Vanderbilt.--Hetty Green.--Interlogue two: Misers, Poverty.--Mitsui.--Cecil Rhodes.--Basil Zaharoff.--Interlogue three: Hugo Stines, Land fortunes. Dynastic fortunes.--Mark Hanna.--John D. Rockefeller.--J. Pierpont Morgan.

Flynn, John T. (John Thomas), 1883-1964. Title Country squire in the White House / by John T. Flynn. Publisher New York : Doubleday, Doran, 1940. Description vi, 131 p. ; 21 cm. Language English Note Includes bibliographical references. Subject Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title Security speculation; its economic effects, by John T. Flynn. Publisher New York, Harcourt, Brace [c1934] Description xii, 332 p. diagrs. 22cm. Language English Note "First edition." Note Bibliography: p.321-327.

Flynn, John T. (John Thomas), 1882-1964. Title God's gold : the story of Rockefeller and his times / by John T. Flynn. Publisher New York : Harcourt, Brace, c1932, 1933 printing. { London : Harrap, [1933] } Description ix, 520 p. : ill., ports., diagr. ; 23 cm. Language English Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-508) and index. Subject Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937.

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title Graft in business ... by John T. Flynn. Publisher New York : The Vanguard Press, [c1931] Description ix, 11-318 p. incl. diagr. 22 cm.

Flynn, John Thomas, 1883-1964. Title Investment trusts gone wrong! By John T. Flynn. Publisher New York : New Republic, inc., 1930. Description 276 p. 19 cm. Language English Note "Much of the material originally appeared in a series of articles in the New Republic."--Introductory note. Note "Bibliographical note": p. 269.