Garet Garrett

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Garet Garrett (1878–1954), born Edward Peter Garrett, was an American journalist and author who was noted for his critiques of the New Deal and U.S. involvement in the Second World War.

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[edit] Early years

Garet Garrett was born in 1878 in Illinois. By 1903, he had become a well known writer for the old New York Sun. In 1911, he wrote a fairly successful book, Where the Money Grows and Anatomy of the Bubble. In 1916, at the age of 38, Garrett became the executive editor of the New York Tribune, after having worked as a financial writer for The New York Times, the Saturday Evening Post, and The Wall Street Journal. From 1920 to 1933, his primary focus was on writing books..

Between 1920 and 1932 Garrett wrote and had eight books including The American Omen in 1928 and A Bubble That Broke the World in 1932. He also wrote regular columns for several business and financial publications.

[edit] Critic of the New Deal and Roosevelt's foreign policy

After the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Garrett went on to become one of the most vocal critics of the New Deal and what he saw as its socialist measures. He wrote a series of his columns in the Saturday Evening Post between 1933 to 1940, which were later compiled into a collection of his essays titled Salvos Against the New Deal: Selections from the Saturday Evening Post: 1933-1940, published in 2002. The Saturday Evening Post kept Garrett on as a columnist despite the fact that at one point it became financially perilous for them to do so. In 1940 the management of the Saturday Evening Post made Garrett editorial-writer-in-chief after the passing of George Horace Lorimer. Garrett was highly critical of the Roosevelt Administration's moves toward intervention in the war then underway in Europe; he covered this topic in a series of editorials which were collected under the title Defend America First: The Antiwar Editorials of the Saturday Evening Post, 1939-1942, which was published in 2003.

[edit] Later years

In 1951, Garrett wrote The People's Pottage (later republished as Ex America) and in 1952, The Burden of Empire. Through these works, he questioned the aftermath of the Roosevelt administration and its impact on American society. In these works, he coined a phrase for a revolutionary methodology used by conservative thinking to understand the transformation of the old culture/regime: "revolution within the form." Garet Garrett died in 1954 at the age of 76.

[edit] Works

[edit] References

  • Profit's Prophet: Garet Garrett (1878-1954), by Carl Ryant (1989)
  • Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement, (Chapter 3) by Justin Raimondo (1993)

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