Talk:Edward J. Flynn

Anyone want to fill in more details?
While giving the basic curriculum vitae, this misses some important facts about Ed Flynn that I can't really enter myself since they'd be very derivative, and need some more-direct referencing.

Flynn was a supporter of the New Deal in the Bronx, and a close ally and advisor of FDR when Al Smith and Tammany Hall were at first unenthusiastic and later hostile (partly because it provided an alternative channel of patronage). Flynn and James Farley also helped establish the American Labor Party as a vehicle for socialists, other non-Democrats and anti-Tammany voters to support the New Deal from outside. (It was also a convenient meeting ground for pro-New Deal Republicans like Fiorello La Guardia.)

Shakescene (talk) 05:23, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Here's the footnote I was thinking of (I wrote it for New York City mayoralty elections):


 * 1) ... According to the March 1950 reminiscences of FDR's advisor Ed Flynn, "President Roosevelt with Jim Farley and myself, brought the American Labor Party into being. It was entirely Roosevelt's suggestion. Farley and I never believed in it very much, but he felt at the time—and it is true today—that there were many people who believed in what Roosevelt stood for but who, for some reason or another...would not join the Democratic party. If another party were created, you could bring these people into it actively. That was really why it was created." cited in It Didn't Happen Here: Why socialism failed in the United States, by Seymour Martin Lipset and Gary Marks (New York, 2000: W.W. Norton, ISBN 0-393-04098-4), page 342 note 56

Shakescene (talk) 05:43, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

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