Throughout his long presidency, writes historian Ralph Raico, FDR 
was hotly opposed, even pilloried, by a host
of intelligent, respected, and patriotic men and women. The most consistent of
his adversaries formed a loose coalition known today as the Old Right. There is little doubt that
the best informed and most tenacious of the Old Right foes of Franklin Roosevelt
was John T. Flynn.
When Flynn came to write his major study of the four-term president, he aptly
titled it The
Roosevelt Myth.
Myths continue to abound concerning Roosevelt and his reign; one of the most convenient is that the antagonists of his New Deal were all "economic royalists," self-serving beneficiaries and defenders of the status quo. In Flynn's case, such an accusation is laughable. When he became a critic of the New Deal, Flynn enjoyed a well-established reputation as a progressive and a muckraker, with, as Bill Kauffman writes, "a taste for plutocrat blood." FULL ARTICLE
