The Road Ahead: America's Creeping Revolution

160 pp. American journalist John T. Flynn argues that socialism was infiltrating into the politics of the United States during the mid-20th century. Many copies were distributed by the Fighters For Freedom, a division of The Committee for Constitutional Government, Inc., based in New York City. The author states at the bottom of the book jacket: "I wrote this book to answer a question that practically everybody is asking: Where are we heading? I thought it was about time for someone to answer it, candidly and with blunt facts". It continues with the statement that "...this country is traveling to its destruction". The book then describes events and political attitudes prevalent in post-World War II America that pointed, according to Flynn, to a shift toward socialism. This shift was being steered by the very political leaders of the day who were decrying communism in Europe on the one hand and expanding the tax burden on the American people to fight the emerging Cold War with Russia. The book discusses the history of the rise of European socialism, beginning with the Marxist influence of the Fabian Society and nationalization of industry in England. Flynn then lists similar steps that were being taken or proposed in American politics, including the expansion of government to regulate almost every aspect of American life, elimination of the gold standard in favor of a fiat currency, the rise in tax rates to much higher levels, the burden on the Federal budget of a bloated welfare system, and 'the offer of free health care.'"