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5 Quoted in Cmiel, Democratic Eloquence, p. 56.
6 Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, p. 374.
7 American Heritage, December 1973, p. 37.
8 Quoted in Cmiel, op. cit., p. 54.
9 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 1, p. 271.
10 Letter to William Randolph, June 1776, in Boy (ed.), The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 1, p. 409.
11 P. Srnith, op. cit., p. 223.
12 Wills, Inventing America, p. 45.
13 Ibid., p. 35.
14 Brodie, Thomas Jefferson, p. 103.
15 Fischer, op. cit., p. 6.
16 Ibid., p. 471.
17 Ibid., p. 259.
18 Dillard, All-American English, p. 55.
19 Wills, op. cit., p. 36.
20 Quoted in Krapp, The English Language in America, vol. 1, p. 46.
21 Flexner, I Hear America Talking, p. 7.
22 Cmiel, op. cit., p. 45.
23 Krapp, op. cit., p. 44.
24 Mencken, The American Language, 4th edn., p. 539.
25 Dillard, op. cit., p. 53.
26 Hibbert, Redcoats and Rebels, pp. 31–5.
27 Stephen E. Lucas, ‘Justifying America: The Declaration of Independence as a Rhetorical Document’, in Benson (ed.), op. cit., p71.
28 Letter to Henry Lee, 8 May 1825.
29 Wills, op. cit., p. xxi.
30 Cmiel, op. cit., p. 83.
31 Boyd (ed.), op. cit., vol. 1, p. 423.
32 Lucas, op. cit., pp. 67–119.
33 Hibbert, op. cit., p. 117.
34 Ibid., p. 117.
35 Safire, Coming to Terms, p. 140.
36 Simpson, The Politics of American English, p. 23.
37 Boyd (ed.), op. cit., vol. 1, p. 404.
38 Mencken, op. cit., p. 502.
39 Flexner, op. cit., p. 7.
40 Flexner, Listening to America, p. 328.
41 Boorstin, op. cit, p. 381.
4: Making a Nation
1 Mee, The Genius of the People, p. 30.
2 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 3, p. ix.
3 Schwarz, George Washington, p. 47.
4 Mee, op. cit., p. 143.
5 Flexner, Listening to America, p. 281.
6 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 1, p. 78.
7 Aldridge, Benjamin Franklin and Nature’s God, p. 22.
8 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 3, p. 397.
9 Morison, The Oxford History of the American People, pp. 308–9.
10 Seavey, Becoming Benjamin Franklin, p. 150.
11 E. Wright, Franklin of Philadelphia, p. 53.
12 Ibid., p. 54.
13 Granger, Benjamin Franklin, p. 66.
14 Willcox (ed.), The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 15, p. 174.
15 Carr, The Oldest Delegate, p. 16.
16 Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, p. 357.
17 Mee, op. cit., p. 90.
18 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 6, p. 376.
19 Cooke, Alistair Cooke’s America, p. 140.
20 Mee, op. cit., p. 120.
21 Ibid., p. 237.
22 Boorstin, Hidden History, p. 187.
23 Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, p. 402.
24 Ibid., p. 415.
25 Ernst and Schwartz, Censorship, p. 8.
26 Morison, op. cit., p. 311.
27 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 3, pp. 122–3.
28 American Heritage, October 1969, pp. 84–5.
29 Verbatim, Summer 1991, p. 6.
30 Flexner, I Hear America Talking, p. 9.
31 Simpson, The Politics of American English, p. 41.
32 American Heritage, December 1963, p. 27.
33 Journal of American History, December 1992, pp. 939–40.
34 Quoted in Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, p. 344.
35 National Geographic, July 1976, pp. 92–3.
36 Ibid., p. 97.
37 Mee, op. cit., pp. 33–40.
5: By the Dawn’s Early Light: Forging a National Identity
1 Holt, Phrase and Word Origins, p. 243.
2 O’Malley, Keeping Watch, p. 107.
3 American Heritage, October/November 1983, p. 104.
4 O’Malley, op. cit., p. 262.
5 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 3, p. 757.
6 Flexner, I Hear America Talking, p. 124.
7 Morison, The Oxford History of the American People, pp. 283–4.
8 Craigie and Hulbert, A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles, vol. 2, p. 397.
9 Carver, A History of English in Its Own Words, p. 9.
10 New Yorker, 4 September 1989, p. 11.
11 Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, p. 280.
12 Mencken, The American Language, 4th edn., p. 236.
13 Ibid., p. 135.
14 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 4, p. 252.
15 Ibid., vol. 3, p. 47.
16 Commager, The American Mind, p. 16.
17 Cmiel, Democratic Eloquence,