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55 Quoted in McDavid, Varieties of American Englsh, p. 78.
56 Krapp, The English Language in America, vol. 1, pp. 161–2.
57 Dohan, Our Own Words, p. 241.
58 Marckwardt, op. cit., p. 66.
59 Ibid., p. 65.
60 Dillard, op. cit., p. 22.
61 Mencken, op. cit., p. 743.
10: When the Going was Good: Travel in America
1 Boorstin, Hidden History, p. 60.
2 Hibbert, Redcoats and Rebels, p. 335.
3 Root and de Rochement, Eating in America, p. 42.
4 Morison, The Oxford History of the American People, p. 141.
5 Carver, A History of English in Its Own Words, pp. 147–8.
6 Cooke, Alistair Cooke’s America, p. 77.
7 Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, p. 394.
8 Boyd (ed.), The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 1, p. 408.
9 Wills, Inventing America, p. 43.
10 Rae, The Road and the Car in American Life, p. 15.
11 American Heritage, April 1967, p. 106
12 American Heritage, December 1983, p. 91.
13 Davidson, Life in America, vol. 1, p. 199.
14 Flexner, Listening to America, p. 144.
15 Johnson, The Birth of the Modern, p. 171.
16 American Heritage, February 1977, p. 16.
17 McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 12.
18 Patton, Open Road, p. 37.
19 Ciardi, Good Words to You, pp. 233–4.
20 Barnhart (ed.), The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology, p. 1086.
21 K. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier, pp. 106–7
22 Ibid., p. 105.
23 The Economist, 16 October 1991.
24 Nye, Electrifying America, p. 93.
25 K. Jackson, op. cit., p. 158.
26 Carver, op. cit., p. 243.
27 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 7, p. 865.
28 Ibid., p. 866.
29 Flexner, I Hear America Talking, p. 330
30 Dohan, Our Own Words, p. 266.
31 Flexner, I Hear America Talking, p. 333.
32 Hokanson, The Lincoln Highway, pp. 6–10; and American Heritage, June 1974, pp. 32–7 and 89.
33 Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed, p. 6.
34 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 7, p. 868.
35 American Heritage, August 1973, p. 11
36 Ibid., December 1975, p. 66.
37 Liebs, Main Street to Miracle Mile, p. 208.
38 Finch, Highways to Heaven, p. 162.
39 Liebs, op. cit., p. 177.
40 Barnhart, op. cit., p. 680.
41 Patton, op. cit., p. 199.
42 Rowsome, The Verse by the Side of the Road, p. 18.
43 K. Jackson; op. cit., p. 249
44 The Economist, 10 August 1991, p. 28.
45 Patton, op. cit., p. 85.
11: What’s Cooking?: Eating in America
1 Caffrey, The Mayflower, p. 166.
2 Root and de Rochement, Eating in America, p. 54.
3 Ibid., p. 19.
4 Ciardi, A Browser’s Dictionary, p. 212.
5 Mee, The Genius of the People, p. 91.
6 Root and de Rochement, op. cit., pp. 94–5.
7 Ibid., p. 162.
8 Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, p. 314.
9 Carver, A History of English in Its Own Words, p. 146.
10 Funk, Word Origins and Their Romantic Stories, p. 170.
11 American Heritage, December 1989, pp. 123–31.
12 Ibid.
13 Mencken, The American Language, 4th edn., p. 264.
14 Ibid., p. 225.
15 Liebs, Main Street to Miracle Mile, p. 196.
16 Levenstein, Revolution at the Table, p. 189.
17 Ibid., p. 92.
18 Bursk, Clark and Hidy, The World of Business, vol. 1, pp. 426–7.
19 Levenstein, op. cit., pp. 198–9.
20 Funk, op. cit., p. 186.
21 Barnhart, Steinmetz and Barnhart, Third Barnhart Dictionary of New English, p. 497.
22 Allen, Only Yesterday, p. 68.
23 Holt, Phrase and Word Origins, p. 59.
24 Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, p. 287.
25 Dillard, American Talk, p. 85.
26 Ibid., p. 84.
27 Ibid., p. 88.
28 Allen, op. cit., p. 205.
29 Root and de Rochement, op. cit., p. 389.
30 Allen, op. cit., p. 209.
31 Bursk, Clark and Hidy, op. cit., pp. 345–7.
32 Dohan, Our Own Words, p. 270.
12: Democratizing Luxury: Shopping in America
1 Craigie and Hulbert, A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles, vol. 1, p. 748.
2 Frieden and Sagalyn, Downtown, Inc., p. 8.
3 Goldberger, The Skyscraper, p. 42.
4 Strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed, p. 213.
5 Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, p. 126.
6 Ibid., p. 110.
7 Flexner, Listening to America, p. 494; and Liebs, Main Street to Miracle Mile, pp. 119–26.
8 Liebs,