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25. Ibid., pp. 179-80.
26. Geoffrey Kabaservice, The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2004), pp. 65, 156, 174, 176, 259-60, 264, 267; Jerome Karabel, The Chosen: The Hidden Story of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2005), pp. 364-67, 379, 392; Dan A. Oren, Joining the Club: A History of Jews at Yale (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983), pp. 183-84, 272. On college graduation rates, see Nicole S. Stoops, A Half-Century of Learning: Historical Census Statistics on Educational Attainment in the United States, 1940 to 2000 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Education and Social Stratification Branch, 2006), p. 9, table 12a.
27. Samuel P. Huntington, Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), pp. 196, 223-25.
28. Max Boot, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today (New York: Gotham Books, 2006), pp. 318-22, 329. The quote is from Gen. Michael Dugan, cited on p. 321.
29. My discussion of American economic dominance draws on Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America's Empire, pp. 18-19; Gordon, An Empire of Wealth, pp. 416-18. George Soros's quote can be found in Joseph Kahn, “Losing Faith: Globalization Proves Disappointing,” New York Times, Mar. 21, 2002, p. A8.
30. My discussion of Eugene Kleiner draws on Rhonda Abrams, “Remembering Eugene Kleiner,” USA Today, Nov. 26, 2003; “Eugene Kleiner: Obituary,” The Economist, Dec. 6, 2003; and personal exchanges with Eugene Kleiner's sister-in-law, Dr. Sylvia Smoller. On Andrew Grove, see Tim Jackson, Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company (New York: Dutton, 1997), pp. 18-35, 69-76; Walter Isaacson, “The Microchip is the Dynamo of a New Economy…Driven by the Passion of Intel's Andrew Grove,” Time, Dec. 29, 1997/Jan. 5, 1998, pp. 46-51.
31. Gordon, An Empire of Wealth, p. 418; Vivek Wadhwa, Anna Lee Saxenian, Ben Rissing, and Gary Gereffi, “America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs” (Masters of Engineering Management Program, Duke University, and School of Information, U.C. Berkeley, Jan. 4, 2007), pp. 4-5.
32. Boot, War Made New, pp. 421-26.
TEN: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AXIS POWERS: NAZI GERMANY AND IMPERIAL JAPAN
1. Klaus P. Fischer, Nazi Germany: A New History (New York: Continuum, 1995), p. 459; William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990), pp. 741-46; Anne O'Hare McCormick, “Europe: Hitler at Compiegne Opens Third Act of War,” New York Times, June 22, 1940, p. 14.
2. Fischer, Nazi Germany, pp. 419, 431-34, 452-54; Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pp. 5, 625, 742.
3. Theodore Abel, Why Hitler Came into Power (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1938), pp. 30-32; Fischer, Nazi Germany, pp. 42-43, 62, 64-65; Gordon A. Craig, Germany, 1866-1945 (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1980), pp. 424-27; Hans Mommsen, The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998), pp. 76, 87, 94, 118; Michael Stürmer, The German Empire (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson), pp. 102-4.
4. Craig, Germany, 1866-1945, pp. 450-55, 543, 550-51, 585, 637; Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), pp. 86-87; Mommsen, The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany, pp. 158-60, 345-46, 354-55; Roderick Stackelberg and Sally A. Winkle, eds., The Nazi Germany Sourcebook (London: Routledge, 2002), p. 129.
5. Craig, Germany, 1866-1945, pp. 550, 633-34; Stackelberg and Winkle, The Nazi Germany Sourcebook, p. 92.
6. Craig, Germany, 1866-1945, pp. 635-36; Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, pp. 943-47, 973-74.
7. See Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945 (New York: Free Press, 1975), pp. 14013; Miklos Nyiszli, Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account