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Origins and Outcome
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Origins and Outcome

From the December 1991 issue of Chronicles. To the degree that it is remembered at all, the America First Committee (AFC) has gone down in history as an organization most suspect, at best composed of good people serving a bad cause, at worst riddled with conscious agents of a Nazi transmission belt. During its heyday...

Old Progressives Don’t Die
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Old Progressives Don’t Die

Surprisingly enough, in many ways journalist and commentator John T. Flynn was a typical progressive. Long a figure of prominence on the American right, he was not politically active in the time of Woodrow Wilson, whose domestic policies he much admired. He did, however, first gain prominence as a muckraker denouncing the financial chicanery of...

Embarrassing Victory
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Embarrassing Victory

“The other side lost, but did we A win?” So asks Ronald Steel concerning America’s foreign policy. Obviously the world long familiar to us has suddenly collapsed. “Of course there is a victory,” writes Steel in reference to the United States’ triumph in the Cold War. “But what do we do with it?” No stranger...

Origins and Outcome
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Origins and Outcome

To the degree that it is remembered at all, the America First Committee (AFC) has gone down in history as an organization most suspect, at best composed of good people serving a bad cause, at worst riddled with conscious agents of a Nazi transmission belt. During its heyday in the years 1940-1941, some of the...