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25 Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent, 300.
26 Ralph Nader, interview, Washington, DC, March 30, 2010.
27 David Cay Johnston, interview, by phone from Rochester, New York, March 7, 2010.
28 Lewis F. Powell, “Attack on th eAmerican Free Enterprise System,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce, August 23, 1971, http:www.reclaimdemocracy.org/ corporate _acountability/Powell_memo_lewis.html.
29 Ralph Nader, in Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan, Directors, An Unreasonable Man, Submarine Entertainment, 2006.
30 Warren P. Strobel, “Dealt a Setback, Bush Now Faces a Difficult Choice,” Philadelphis Inquirer, February 15, 2003, A01.
31 James Cone, interview, Princeton, New Jersey, January, 16, 2010.
32 Malcolm X, Corey Methodist Church, Cleveland, Ohio, April 3, 1964.
33 See King’s address, “Some Things We Must Do,” given December 5, 1957, on the second anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott.
34 Malcolm X, panel discussion on WNDT-TV, New York, 1963.
35 Martin Luther King, “Guidelines for a Conservative Church,” Sermon given June 5, 1966, at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta.
36 Dean Henderson, interview, Fairfax, Virginia, February 20, 2010.
CHAPTER 6: REBELLION
1 Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus,” in The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays (New York: Everyman, 2004), 536.
2 Chris Rojek, Celebrity (London: Reaktion Books, 2001), 90-91.
3 Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005), 55.
4 Seth Borenstein, Associated Press, “Data Show ‘Arctic Is Screaming,’ Scientists Say,” New York Sun, December 12, 2007, http:www.nysun.com/foreign/data-show-arctic-is-screaming-scientists-say/67928.
5 James Hansen, “Global Warming Twenty Years Later: Tipping Points Near,” speech to the National Press Club, Washington, June, 23 2008, www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/TwentyYearsLater_20080623.pdf.
6 Clive Hamilton, Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change (Washington, DC: Earthscan, 2010), 27-28.
7 Ibid., 22.
8 Clive Hamilton, “Is It Too Late to Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change?,” lecture, Royal Society of the Arts, Sydney, Australia, October 21, 2009, http:www.clivehamilton.net.au/cms/index.php?page=articles.
9 Letter of October 13, 1953, from Payne Best to George Bell, in Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Vol. 16, Conspiracy and Imprisonment, 1940-1945, trans. by Lisa E. Dahill (Minneapolis, NM: Fortress Press, 2006), 468.
10 Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (New York: Penguin, 1985), 73.
11 Jason Lanier, interview, San Francisco, February 12, 2010.
12 E. M. Forester, “The Machine Stops,” in Selected Stories (New York: Penguin, 2001), 91-123.
13 Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt, trans. by Anthony Bower (New York: Vintage, 1956), 238.
14 Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against State in Central Europe, ed. John Keane (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1990), 63.
15 Albert Camus, “Return to Tipasa,” in Lyrical and Critical Essays, ed. Philip Thody, trans. by Ellen Conroy Kenny (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968), 169-170.
16 Mario Savio, speech on the steps of Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California, Free Speech Movement Sit-in, December 2, 1964. http:www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mariosaviosproulhallsitin.htm.
Acknowledgments
Eunice Wong is my most astute critic, my most important and trusted editor, and as talented a writer as she is an actor. Every idea and theme in this book was discussed, dissected, and debated with her. All that I write passes through her hands, usually a few times. Our marriage is a rare mixture of the intellectual, the emotional, the physical, and the spiritual. I want to weigh time down with boulders to prolong and hold every moment I have with her.
The Nation Institute, the Ford Foundation and the Lannan Foundation offered generous support. I am grateful to Hamilton Fish, Ruth Baldwin,