Books: No Brains?

AS WE GO MARCHING—John T. Flynn —Doubleday, Doran ($2).

While fascism's beatings, blood lust and bombings have been getting the headlines, Economist John T. Flynn has been burrowing deep into pre-fascist history for the story behind the headlines. His findings, as set forth in As We Go Marching, are a model of pamphleteering clarity. For onetime America-Firster Flynn strikes a deadly parallel between what happened in Italy and Germany and what is now happening in the U.S., proving—to his own satisfaction, at least—that it can happen here.

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