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28 Lori Grinker, Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict (Milford, NY: de.MO, 2005), 58-59.
29 Ibid., 63.
30 Ibid., 96-107.
31 Ibid., 120-121.
32 Ibid., 124-125.
33 Peter van Agtmael, 2nd Tour, Hope I Don’t Die, 64-65.
CHAPTER 3: DISMANTLING THE LIBERAL CLASS
1 Randolph Bourne, War and the Intellectuals (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 1999), 3.
2 “Capper of Kansas Now Backs Wilson,” New York Times, March 25, 1917.
3 D.S. Jordan to W. Kent, April 1, 1917, the Papers of William Kent, Yale University Library.
4 Randolph Bourne, The War and the Intellectuals (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1999), 3-4.
5 See Ernest Freeberg, Democracy’s Pioneer: Eugene Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 136.
6 “Albert Edwards” [Arthur Bullard], “Under the White Terror,” Colliers, April 28, 1906.
7 Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century (New York: Atlantic-Little Brown, 1980), 125.
8 Quoted in United States Committee on Public Information, National Service Handbook, Red, White and Blue Series, No. 2 (Washington, DC: 1917), title page.
9 George Creel, Rebel at Large: Recollections of Fifty Crowded Years (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1947), 157.
10 Robert Lansing, War Memoirs of Robert Lansing, Secretary of State (Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill, 1935), 208.
11 “Radicals at Work for German Peace,” New York Times, June 24, 1917, 7.
12 Stuart Ewen, Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture (New York: Basic Books, 2001), 62.
13 John Dos Passos, Mr. Wilson’s War (New York: Doubleday, 1962), 300.
14 Quoted in Dos Passos, Mr. Wilson’s War, 301.
15 “Debs urges strike if nation fights,” New York Times, March 8, 1917, 3.
16 George Sylvester Viereck, Spreading the Germs of Hate (New York: Horace Liveright, 1930), 178-179.
17 Dos Passos, Mr. Wilson’s War, 302.
18 Jane Addams, Peace and Bread in Times of War (New York: Macmillan, 1922), 134.
19 Dos Passos, Mr. Wilson’s War, 300.
20 Addams, Peace and Bread in Time of War, 182.
21 “Senators Tell What Bolshevism in America Means,” New York Times, June 15, 1919, 40.; U.S. Senate Subcommittee on the Judiciary, Brewing and Liquor Licenses, 3:114, 123, 146-147.
22 Stewart Halsey Ross, Propaganda for War: How the United States Was Conditioned to Fight the Great War of 1914-1918 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 1996), 280.
23 Sidney Pollard, The Idea of Progress: History and Society (London: C. A. Watts, 1968), 9ff.
24 Quoted in Sidney Lens, Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sitdowns (New York: Doubleday, 1973), 152.
25 Dwight Macdonald, The Root Is Man (Brooklyn, NY:Autonomedia, 1995), 67.
26 Ibid., 146.
27 John Houseman, Unfinished Business (London: Chatto and Windos, 1986), 87.
28 Mark Blitzstein, The Cradle Will Rock, 31, Sketch 6.
29 Ibid., 13, Sketch 3.
30 Hallie Flanagan, Arena: The History of the Federal Theatre (New York: Benjamin Bloom, 1940), 202-203.
31 Blitzstein, The Cradle Will Rock, page 15, Sketch 4.
32 Karen Malpede, interview, New York, June 6, 2010.
33 Flanagan, 364-365.
34 Ibid., 366.
35 Ibid.
36 Malpede., 367.
37 Malcom Cowley, Exile’s Return (New York: Penguin, 1994), 58.
38 Russell Jacoby, The Last Intellectuals (New York: Basic Books, 1987), 67-68.
39 Ibid., 71.
40 Cowley, Exile’s Return, 60-61.
41 Ibid., 62-63.
42 Ibid., 66-67.
43 Ibid., 149.
44 Irving Howe, World of Our Fathers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983), 501, cited in Jacoby, The Last Intellectuals.
45 Quoted in Victor Navasky, Naming Names (New York: Viking 1980), 48.
46 Walter Bernstein, Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), 185.
47 Drama Mailbag, New York Times, October 16, 1955, x3.
48 Bernstein, Inside Out, 186.
49 Ellen Schrecker, Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998), 412.
CHAPTER 4: POLITICS AS SPECTACLE