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Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism

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I started reading this book four years ago but stopped after one chapter. I wasn't captivated with John Flynn nor the historical relationship. I was leaving on a three hour flight last week and needed something to read and decided to give it another try. I couldn't lay it down!

Wow, history repeats its self! Take the speculation on stocks that lead to the stock crash of 1929 and substitute the mortgage scams of today. Then add the cover up by the Federal Government in both instances to soften the political backlash and the lack of coverage by the press and what do you have? The name has changed but the game is the same. It is clear where we are headed. Scary!

John Flynn might have been leading a Tea Party if he were alive today.

I was hoping for a just-the-facts-m'am type of history that laid out Flynn's evolution, in a straightforward historical context. What I ended up getting, unfortunately, was another tired ideologically-driven screed that can't seem to just stick to what happened without injecting pointless (and awkwardly phrased) commentary at every turn.

I had never heard of John Moser before, but after unloading this book at a garage sale I looked him up, and after I found out that he is a professor within The Ashbrook Center, I better understood why this text always seems to be grinding its ideological axe.