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CHAPTER 10: SHOPPING IN ABUNDANCE
1. Cited in David Brownstone, Island of Hope, Island of Tears (New York: Rawson, 1979), 17.
2. For more on the Uneeda story and much else of interest, see Harvey Levenstein, Revolution at the Table: The Transformation of the American Diet (Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 2003), 35–36.
3. As cited in Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America (New York: Basic Books, 1944), 329.
4. As cited in Lears, Fables of Abundance, 244.
5. Online Etymology Dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/), November 2005.
6. I borrow these two ads (for Max Factor and Pepsi) from Catherine Orenstein’s Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale (New York: Basic Books, 2002). Images of the ads are reproduced of that book.
7. Frank O’Hara, “Meditations in an Emergency,” in Meditations in an Emergency (New York: Grove, 1957), 38.
CHAPTER 11: WHAT MONEY STOLE
1. Howard Mumford Jones, The Pursuit of Happiness (Ithaca, NY: Cornell Univ. Press, 1953), 12–14. This is a great little book.
2. Diocletian brought cabbage knowledge from Rome to Croatia. These were open-leaved plants. Hildegard of Bingen lets us know that by the twelfth century, head cabbages were in Europe.
3. It’s easy to like any doctrine so antithetical to evangelism that it cannot manage its own defense.
4. Franklin to Dr. Forthergill, 1764, in The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, ed. Albert H. Smyth (New York: Macmillan, 1905–1907), 4:221.
5. Writings of George Washington, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick (Washington, DC: GPO, Bicentennial Editions, 1931), 35, 432.
6. Jefferson to Edward Rutledge, 27 December 1796. Letter 202 in Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Thomas Randolph, vol. 3 (Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1930). The full text is available on the Gutenberg Project’s Web site: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/7/8/16781/16781-h/ 16781-h.htm.
7. Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 26 February 1810. Letter 88 in Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 4.
8. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. George Lawrence (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969), 513. The title of this essay is “Of the Uses Which the Americans Make of Public Associations”; it is found in vol. 2, sec. 2. The full text is available on the University of Virginia Web site: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/ DETOC/toc_indx.html.
9. Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 517.
10. Theda Skocpol, “How Americans Became Civic,” in Civic Engagement in American Democracy, ed. Theda Skocpol and Morris P. Fiorina (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1999).
11. She says that my grandfather, Irving, was not a very social man but still spent a lot of time at the B’nai Brith. He brought the bagels. He also carted away the stale ones and fed them (gratis) to the ponies at the nickel pony rides that then existed on East 53rd Street.
12. Germans were the largest group of immigrants for a while and they were particularly associational. Still, they weren’t alone in this. By 1910, two-thirds of all Poles in America reportedly belonged to at least one of the seven thousand Polish associations. The numbers for Jews, Slovaks, and Croats were similar. Steven Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (New York: Hill and Wang, 1998), 9. Charmingly, in senior communities that hold such associations—Jewish retirement communities for example—there are similar friendly clubs, now gathering people from Chicago or Los Angeles.
CHAPTER 12: HOW WE BUY BACK WHAT MONEY STOLE
1. Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000), 367. Juliet B. Schor’s Overworked American comes at the problem of community from the other direction: wealth and technology were supposed to lead to more leisure, but they have so far done quite the opposite in the United States. Juliet