Education
As a student, Allen majored in history at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and studied as well at California State University in Long Beach.
As a student, Allen majored in history at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and studied as well at California State University in Long Beach.
He contributed to magazines such as Conservative Digest and American Opinion magazine since 1964. He also was the speech writer for George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama and a one-time segregationist, during the 1968 United States. presidential election against Richard M. Nixon and Hubert H. Humphrey. He was an advisor to the conservative Texas millionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt.
Allen was the father of four children, including Michael Allen, a political news journalist.
Allen died in 1986 in Long Beach, California, at the age of 50 of a liver ailment.
According to the authors, these Insiders use elements of Karl Marx"s Communist Manifesto to forward their socialist/communist agenda:
Investigative reporter Chip Berlet argues that Allen"s work provides an example of a synthesis of right-wing populism and conspiracism, a blend of ideas known as producerism.
He was a prominent member of Robert West. Welch, Junior."s John Birch Society, of which he was a spokesman.