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23 “They might do worse”: Brownson.
24 “White House Iceberg”: Platt, 215.
25 “The House has more sense”: Alexander, 27.
26 “Look outward”: “The United States Looking Outward,” Dec., 1890.
27 “A voice … of our external interests”: Puleston, 133. All subsequent biographical facts, anecdotes and quotations by or about Mahan are from Puleston unless otherwise stated.
28 “Don’t tell Grover”: Clark, I, 281–82.
29 Roosevelt read it “straight through”: May 12, 1890, Letters, I, 221.
30 Origin of “Sea Power”: Mahan, From Sail to Steam, 276–77.
31 Kaiser on Mahan: q. Taylor, 131.
32 Secretary White: Fuller, 211.
33 Mahan on the Jews: From Sail to Steam.
34 Lodge in “desperate earnest”: q. Garraty, 52.
35 Comments of Senators Morgan, Frye and Cullom: Millis, 29.
36 Union League Club, NYT, Dec. 18, 1895.
37 “Admirals? Never!”: q. Taylor, 12.
38 “A towering influence”: q. Godkin, I, 221.
39 Lowell on the Nation: Godkin, I, 251; Bryce on the Evening Post: ibid., 232; Governor Hill: Villard, 123.
40 Godkin on the United States in 1895: Life and Letters, II, 187, 202.
41 William James on “fighting spirit”: to Frederic Myers, Jan. 1, 1896, Perry, 244.
42 Norton, “shout of brutal applause”: NYT, Dec. 30, 1895.
43 “Supremely urbane”: Daniel Gregory Mason, “At Home in the Nineties,” New England Quarterly Review, Mar., 1936, 64.
44 Students on Norton: William D. Orcutt, Celebrities on Parade, 41; Josephine Preston Peabody, Diary and Letters, 73.
45 Norton to Godkin and to English friend: q. Vanderbilt, 211; to Leslie Stephen, Jan. 8, 1896, Letters, II, 236.
46 Henry Adams: “dead water of the fin de siècle” is from The Education, 331. Other quotations in this paragraph are from the Letters, Vol. II, in order, as follows: Sept. 9, 1894, 55; Aug. 3, 1896, 114; Apr. 1, 1896, 103; Apr. 25, 1895, 68; July 31, 1896, 111; Feb. 17, 1896, 99; Sept. 25, 1895, 88.
47 Norton, “How interesting our times”: to S. G. Ward, Apr. 26, 1896, Letters, II, 244.
48 “The Czar commands you”: Fuller, 238.
49 “Tranquil greatness”: Powers.
50 Reading Richard Burton: Stealey, 413.
51 “A policy no Republican”: Knight.
52 Roosevelt on Reed campaign: Oct. 18, 1895; Dec. 27, 1895; Jan. 26, 1896.
53 Reed’s campaign: Robinson, 326–34; Griffin, 344; Platt, 313.
54 Henry Adams on Reed: to Brooks Adams, Feb. 7, 1896, Letters, II, 96.
55 “Chocolate eclair”: Robinson, 362, calls it Reed’s “alleged” statement. Kohlsaat, 77, gives it to Roosevelt and Peck says it was a “favorite saying” of Roosevelt although this does not exclude its having originated with Reed. To the present author it bears the stamp of Reed’s picturesque turn of phrase.
56 Roosevelt to Reed: McCall, 228; to Lodge: Mar. 13, 1896.
57 “In a word, my dear boy”: Pringle, 159.
58 Altgeld to Darrow: q. Ginger (see Chap. 8), 188.
59 “The whistle would not blow”: ibid., 191.
60 “Mark Hanna’s era”: Norman Hapgood, The Advancing Hour, 1920, 76–77.
61 What sells a newspaper, “War”: Kennedy Jones, q. Halévy (see Chap. 1), V, 9.
62 Eliot’s speech in Washington: New York Evening Post, May 18, 1896.
63 “Degenerated sons of Harvard”: Roosevelt to Lodge, Apr. 29, 1896.
64 Eliot characterized: In addition to James’s biography, the sources used were:
BROWN, ROLLO WALTER, Harvard Yard in the Golden Age, New York, 1948.
HOWE, M. A. DE WOLFE, Classic Shades, Boston, 1928.
MORISON, SAMUEL ELIOT, Three Centuries of Harvard, Harvard Univ. Press, 1937.
SEDGEWICK, ELLERY, The Happy Profession, Boston, 1946.
65 “Eliza, do you kneel …”: James, I, 33–34; “Misunderstood”: Morison, 358; “I had a vivid sense”: Brown, 27; “An oarsman’s back”: Sedgewick, 371–72; “A noble presence”: Howe, 185; “A gentlemen who is …”: ibid.; “Throwing it in ANOTHER!”: James, II, 69; “First private citizen”: ibid., 92; “An emblem of triumph”: Sedgewick, 371–72.
66 “If ever we come to nothing”: Apr. 29, 1896.
67 Secretary Long on Roosevelt: Bishop, I,