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xi:Â Â Â Â “a punishing, postwar recession,” Miller, Donald L.,
p. 115
.
xii:Â Â Â “When will hate be exhausted?”, quoted in McAuliffe,
p. 309
.
xii:Â Â Â “shallow, depraved, and corrupt,” Bryson,
p. 68
.
xii:Â Â Â “some kind of radical depletion,” quoted in Niven,
p. 166
.
xii:Â Â Â “Neither race had won,” Fussell,
p. 13
.
xiv:Â Â “Prohibition is better,” and “Why don't they pass,” www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/prohibition.html.
3:Â Â Â Â Â “was very short and stocky,” Bryson,
p. 282
.
5:Â Â Â Â Â “technology of haste,” Boorstin,
p. 102
.
5:Â Â Â Â Â “with little regard to safety,” ibid.,
p. 103
.
6:Â Â Â Â Â “a national disgrace,” and “made of dirt,” Winchester,
p. 282
.
6:Â Â Â Â Â “By the final decade,” McFarland,
p. 31
.
7:Â Â Â Â Â “a small âmobilization army,'” www.history.army.mil/books/AMH-V2/AMH%20V2/chapter2.htm.
9:Â Â Â Â Â “For millions of people,” McCullough, p. 614.
9:Â Â Â Â Â “Wall Street seemed to be,” Gage,
p. 18
.
9:Â Â Â Â Â “Sales and re-sales,”
WSJ
, July 4, 1919.
10:Â Â Â “the sidewalks were as usual thronged,” Sullivan,
United States
,
p. 176
.
10:Â Â Â
“aggregation of ingenuity,” and “powered the unprecedented,” McFarland,
p. 231
.
11:Â Â Â “While in Juneau Tuesday,”
NYT
, July 16, 1920.
11:Â Â Â “little correspondence,” and, “inflated rises,” Bryson,
p. 208
.
12:Â Â Â “Fluctuations in sugar,”
MWS
,
p. 13
.
13:Â Â Â “the explosion darkened the area,” Brooks,
p. 1
.
13:Â Â Â “That was the loudest noise,” quoted in Gage,
p. 31
.
13:Â Â Â “I was sitting at my desk,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 32
.
13:Â Â Â “was at the southeast corner,” quoted in ibid., p
p. 31
â2.
13:Â Â Â “âhe felt a concussion,” Nasaw,
Patriarch
,
p. 69
.
13:Â Â Â “was lifted completely,” ibid.,
p. 31
.
14:Â Â Â “Survivors on the street,” Brooks,
p. 5
.
14:Â Â Â “was hurled down the steps,” Gage,
p. 32
.
14:Â Â Â “For several blocks,” Sullivan,
p. 177
.
14:Â Â Â “A nearby automobile,”
NYP
, “Wall Street's Unsolved Bombing Mystery,” Richard Bryk, March 26, 2001. Posted in
Breaking News, Posts
.
14:Â Â Â “as nine-tenths of a billion dollars,” Brooks,
p. 9
.
20:Â Â Â “The joint session,” quoted in Reed,
pp. 270
â271.
21:Â Â Â “were found to be carrying,” and “neither man had been arrested,” Bryson, 275.
22:Â Â Â “one of the most notorious anarchists,” quoted in Gage,
p. 207
.
22:Â Â Â “licking the altars,” quoted in Bryson,
p. 280
.
23:Â Â Â “With his neatly trimmed beard,” Gage,
p. 208
.
23:Â Â Â “hatred of capitalism,” Avrich,
Portraits
,
p. 167
.
24:Â Â Â “[o]ne of the most difficult,” Avrich,
Sacco and Vanzetti
,
p. 209
.
24:Â Â Â “Mrs. Martin's linen closet,” Wade,
p. 33
.
25:Â Â Â “in caves in the bowels,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 43
.
27:Â Â Â “blaze of revolution,” and “like a prairie fire,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 165
.
27:Â Â Â “announced that a plot,” Daniels,
p. 46
.
27:Â Â Â “as if something,” quoted in Bryson,
p. 278
.
27:Â Â Â “Alice [Roosevelt] Longworth,” ibid.,
p. 46
.
27:Â Â Â “a terrific explosion,” Murray,
Red Scare
,
p. 78
.
28:Â Â Â “This was a big loss,” Bryson,
p. 279
.
28:Â Â Â “The more I think of it,” quoted in Coben,
p. 71
.
29:Â Â Â “initiated the first,” Gage,
p. 120
.
29:Â Â Â “most spectacular,” Moore,
p. 227
.
30:Â Â Â “2,000 REDS ARRESTED,”
NYW
, January 3, 1920,
p. 1
.
30:Â Â Â “Meetings wide open,”
NYT
, January 3, 1920,
p. 1
.
30:Â Â Â “I was sent up,” quoted in Coben,
pp. 228
â9.
30:Â Â Â “some six thousand to ten thousand,” Bryson,
p. 281
.
31:Â Â Â
“There is no time,”
WP
, January 4, 1920,
p. 4
.
31:Â Â Â “The January raids,” Murray,
Red Scare
,
p. 217
.
31:Â Â Â “halted the advance,” ibid.,
p. 217
.
32:Â Â Â “only 762 were ordered deported,” Cannato,
pp. 326
â7.
32:Â Â Â “By then,” ibid.,
p. 326
.
32:Â Â Â “many domestic radicals,” Murray,
Red Scare
,
p. 240
.
32:Â Â Â “complete collapse,” and “The Attorney-General,” quoted in Coben,
p. 222
.
33:Â Â Â “one-legged, one-armed,”
NYW
, November 25, 1919.
33:Â Â Â “perpetual joke,” ibid.
33:Â Â Â “The passport regulations,”
NYT
, July 18, 1920.
40:Â Â Â “I came unexpectedly,” quoted in Kobler,
p. 119
.
40:Â Â Â “east to Wheeling,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 105
.