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Garet Garrett (1878-1954) 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.
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 sucessful 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 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.
Critic of the New Deal and Roosevelt's foriegn 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. To their credit, the Saturday Evening Post kept Mr. 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. Mr. Garrett was highly critical of the Roosevelt Administration's moves toward intervention in the war then underway in Europe; he covered this topic 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.
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. Garet Garrett died in 1954 at the age of 76.
Works
- Where the Money Grows and Anatomy of the Bubble (1911)
- The American Omen (1928)
- A Bubble That Broke the World (1932)
- Rise of Empire (1941)
- On the Wings of Debt (Economic Sentinel) (1943)
- The Revolution Was (1944)
- Garet Garrett's: The People's Pottage(1951)
- Burden of Empire: The Legacy of the Roosevelt-Truman Revolution (1952)
- The Wild Wheel (1952)
- The American Story (1955)
- Salvos Against the New Deal: Selections from the Saturday Evening Post: 1933-1940, edited by Bruce Ramsey (2002)
- Defend America First: The Antiwar Editorials of the Saturday Evening Post, 1939-1942, edited by Bruce Ramsey (2003)
References
- Profit's Prophet: Garet Garrett (1878-1954), by Carl Ryant (1989)
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