BIOGRAPHY

Daniel J. Flynn is the author of A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008), Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Crown Forum, 2004), and Why the Left Hates America (Prima Forum, 2002).

Flynn has been interviewed on The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball, Penn & Teller's Bulls***, Fox & Friends, Donahue, and numerous other public affairs television programs. His articles have appeared in The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, The City Journal, The New Criterion, National Review Online, and The American Enterprise, among other publications. In 2004, Dan launched www.flynnfiles.com, which features his blog musings on politics, movies, music, sports, and a variety of interesting topics not addressed in his books.

Dan's introduction to politics came as a five-year-old attendee of Ted Kennedy's Faneuil Hall address announcing his run for the presidency. At eight, he started a five-year stint as a Boston Globe paperboy, which heightened a curiosity in current events. Earning commission as a Fenway Park vendor for seven seasons instilled an appreciation for the pure market's justice in basing pay on performance. From Parris Island in 1994, Recruit Flynn learned, in a "Dear John" letter certainly crueler than those received by his fellow recruits, that the players had gone on strike; thus, he had worked his last Red Sox game. Sergeant Flynn served for many years as a gunner in a light armored reconnaissance unit and was honorably discharged from the Marine Reserves in 2002.

Dan's upbringing in the Bluest part of the Bluest state has aided his anthropological fieldwork among Leftist Americanus. Physically attacked by aging hippie "Free Mumia" supporters, mooned and shouted down by Berkeley book burners, banned for life from Black Panther reunions, and forced to host a conference in an off-campus park when Columbia administrators succumbed to the heckler's veto, Dan has experienced the Left's "liberating tolerance" firsthand. A frequent campus speaker, he has educated, amused, and annoyed audiences at Princeton, Stanford, Tulane, UC-Santa Cruz, Swarthmore, Smith, Colby, BC, the University of Wisconsin, MIT, UT-Austin, Notre Dame, and scores of other schools.

Dan boasts a 2-1 record as a keg-race captain, sports no tattoos but numerous interesting scars, including one etched above his mouth by the wrong end of a Pabst Blue Ribbon bottle, frequents the most disheveled used bookstores, smokes the cheapest cigars, and crashes at the most malodorous hostels when in Europe. He is interested in The Ray Bradbury Theater, Massachusetts history, the moon, Eric Hoffer, the New England Patriots, and Kings of Leon, but by the time you read this he will harbor new obsessions. Currently at work on a fourth book, Mr. Flynn is a husband and full-time father.