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41:   “Sometimes bartenders baptized,” ibid.,
p. 106
.

42:   “organized mother love,”
WCTU
.

42:   “Tremble, King Alcohol,” and “Young Man,”
WCTU
.

43:   “locomotive in trousers,” quoted in Asinof,
p. 227
.

44:   “One day a laborer,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 154
.

45:   “informed that there are,” quoted in Behr,
p. 69
.

45:   “pleaded, they wheedled,” Mordden,
p. 142
.

45:   “actually purchased,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 159
.

46:   “I do it the way,” Mordden,
p. 142
.

46:   “controlled six Congresses,” quoted in Steuart,
p. 11
.

46:   “demanding that a worldwide prohibition,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 158
.

48:   “[t]he air became thick,” ibid.,
pp. 190
–1.

49:   “He blended two parts,” Perrett,
p. 176
.

50:   “Last Sunday I manufactured,” quoted in Mordden,
p. 147
.

50:   “Mother's in the kitchen,” Kobler,
p. 238
.

51:   “In southern Florida,” Perrett,
p. 175
.

51:   “To get started,” adapted and condensed from Burns,
Spirits
,
pp. 195
–6.

52:   “Appointments varied, of course,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 199
.

53:   “The headwaiters,” Miller, Donald L.,
p. 124
.

53:   “Door fitters were in especial demand,” Lee,
pp. 55
–6.

54:   “never saw corpses,” quoted in Furnas,
Great Times
, p. 353.

54:   “speak softly shop,” quoted in Cashman,
p. 43
.

54:   “Hush! Don't 'ee sing so loud,” Hardy,
p. 26
.

54:   “Robert Benchley,” Mordden,
p. 134
.

54:   “[f]ederal officials believed,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 197
.

55:   “People made jokes,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 199
.

55:   
“it took money,”
This Fabulous Century
,
p. 160
.

55:   “New York speakeasy owners,” Cashman,
p. 44
.

56:   “[O]rganized crime afflicted,” Fox,
p. 11
.

56:   “Nothing like it,” Dash,
p. 268
.

57:   “a tightening of the throat,” Bryson,
p. 160
.

Chapter Four: Resolutions and Sentiments

59:   “There is but one way,” quoted in Parrish,
pp. 138
–9.

59:   “a reward for what women,” Cantor,
p. 151
.

60:   “a large property owner,” Gurko,
pp. 23
–4.

60:   “The governor, in response,” Tindall, Volume I,
pp. 92
–3.

60:   “In some colonies,” Gurko,
p. 24
.

61:   “When, in the course of human events,” and following quotes from the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions,
DSR
, unpaginated.

63:   “It was argued,” Gurko,
p. 101
.

65:   “The precedent was so unusual,” ibid.,
p. 72
.

66:   “protested her disenfranchisement,” ibid.

66:   “With my own teeth,” quoted in Gordon and Radway,
pp. 157
–8.

66:   “Ever the innovator,” Weatherford,
p. 165
.

66:   “[T]all and slender,” ibid.,
p. 113
.

67:   “to take the responsibility,” ibid.,
p. 250
.

67:   “had the incredible experience,” ibid.,
p. 251
.

67:   “The women who had voted,” ibid.,
p. 254
.

67:   “Knowing that she would be tried,” Seldes,
p. 280
.

68:   “white and frail,” ibid.,
p. 179
.

68:   “To think I have had,” quoted in www.biography.com/people/susan-b-anthony-194905.

68:   “Both the organized women's movement,” Cooper, Jr.,
p. 63
.

Chapter Five: Civil Wrongs

70:   “We were
all
poor,” and “churchpeople, thieves,” and “a woman hollered,” quoted in Bergreen,
p. 15
.

70:   “Chastized as the devil's music,” Gioia,
p. 31
.

70:   “Does Jazz Put the Sin,” quoted in Bryson,
p. 69
.

70:   “Those Baptist rhythms,” Gioia,
p. 31
.

70:   “[Buddy] Bolden,” ibid.,
p. 31
.

71:   “the mournful energy,” Moore,
p. 45
.

71:   “entered just a fraction,” Bergreen,
p. 205
.

72:   “transformed whatever piece,” ibid.

72:   “put a new piece together,” quoted in Bergreen,
p. 128
.

73:   
“He really did perform,” Teachout,
p. 15
.

74:   “The black population in Northern cities,” Green,
p. 98
.

75:   “The French allied forces,” Horton,
p. 161
.

75:   “About 2
A.M.
,” www.northcarolinaroom.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/the-battle-of-henry-johnson.

76:   “I am of the opinion,”
SEP
, August 24, 1918.

77:   “In Chicago,” Weinberg,
p. 213
.

78:   “learned about the colonization,” Archer,
p. 85
.

78:   “But when Marcus Garvey,” Grant,
p. 184
.

79:   “I am President-General,” quoted in ibid.,
pp. 77
–8.

79:   “eventually claimed a circulation,” Archer,
p. 94

80:   “did what no black person,” Grant,
p. 320
.

80:   “Have this day,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 333
.

80:   “Garvey intends to reorganise,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 334
.

81:   “to encourage black,” www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/garvey_marcus.shtml.

81:   “Today I made myself,” quoted in www.afropoets.net/marcusgarvey2.html.

82:   “Garvey is a West Indian Negro,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 98
.

83:   “Mr. Garvey immediately,” Grant, pp. 371–2.

84:   “Garvey's and the Black Star Line's,” Grant, pp. 373–4.

84:   “spectacular antics,” quoted in Smith, Page,
pp. 213
–14.

85:   “learning to accept insult,” quoted in
NAACP
,
p. 2
.

85:   “was not the mere gathering,” ibid.

86:   “is merely the logical result,”
Current Biography, 1944
, p. 742.

86:   “Father of Black History,” quoted in Goggin,
p. 181
.

87:   “a key to our freedom,” quoted in ibid., Goggin,
p. 209
.

87:   “Dr. Woodson often said,”
NAACP
,
p. 2
.

Chapter Six: The Robber Barons and Their Serfs

91:   “with the regularity,” Bain,
p. 288
.

92:   “Between a third and two-fifths,” Kyvig,
Daily Life
,
p. 12
.

93:   “As the historian Paul Johnson,” quoted in Roberts,
p. 92
.

93:   “the bitch-goddess SUCCESS,” quoted in www.goodreads.com/quotes168833-the-moral-flabbiness-born-of-the-worship-of-the-bitch-goddess-SUCCESS.

94:   “association of poverty,” quoted in Drabelle,
p. 187
.

95:   “There is no right,” quoted in Abels,
p. 19
.

97:   “We work in
his
mine,” quoted in Perrett,
p. 46
.

97:   “forced striking miners,” Savage,
p. 12
.

98:   “the Hatfields had tied,” Savage,
p. 10

98:   
“had been only a boy,” ibid.,
p. 11
.

98:   “rather handsome young man,” ibid.,
p. 12
.

99:    “The report circulated,” ibid.,
p. 21
.

100: “cutting telephone and telegraph wires,” ibid. 47.

101: “The demand for coal,” ibid.,
p. 48
.

102: “between the men,” quoted in McFarland, p. 413.

103: “In 1920,” photo sent to author by Matewan city officials.

Chapter Seven: The Beginning of Ponzi's Dream

104: “a decidedly working-class neighborhood,” Zuckoff,
p. 19
.

105: “that relatives weary of paying,” Dunn,
p. 9
.

105: “dreamed aloud about,” Zuckoff,
p. 20
.

106: “I ship stuff,” and “a crate o' tomatoes,” quoted Dunn,
p. 9
.

107: “with his growing skills,” ibid.,
p. 9
.

108: “I have no figures,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 32
.

108: “Ponzi was given a job,” Zuckoff,
p. 47
.

109: “thin, graying, tiny,” ibid.,
p. 31
.

109: “He sold groceries,” Dunn,
p. 10
.

111: “That night, doctors removed,”
pp. 53
–4.

112: “Always have a goal,” quoted in ibid.,
pp. 30
–31.

112: “In April 1906,” Zuckoff,
p. 93
.

112: “could be purchased,” www.images.businessweek.com/ss/09/0311_madoff/3.htm.

112: “more mundane and obscure,” Zuckoff,
p. 93
.

113: “The coupon had cost,” ibid.,
p. 95
.

114: “Sixty-six coupons,” ibid.,
pp. 95
–6.

114: “A confident tone of voice,” Dunn,
p. 2
.

116: “salesmanship and psychology,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 112
.

118: “For every $10,” Parrish,
p. 221
.

119: “Securities Exchange Company,” quoted in Zuckoff,
p. 133
.

120: “DOUBLES THE MONEY,”
BP
, July 24, 1920.

121: “Ponzi literally couldn't,” Bryson,
pp. 337
–8.

Chapter Eight: The Ignoble Experiment

126: “a Hogarthian degradation,” quoted in Miller, Donald L.,
p. 122
.

127: The statistics on crime during Prohibition are provided by www.albany.edu/~wm731882/organized_crime1_final.html.

127: “Most often, the cutting,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 218
.

128: “It did not quarrel with,” ibid.,
p. 218
.

128: “The person who drinks,” quoted in Barr,
p. 241
.

128:
“seemed a notice,” Holbrook,
p. 105
.

129: “They should have permitted,” quoted in Bryson,
p. 173
.

129: “Bootleggers claimed,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 219
.

129: “a no-frills mixture,” ibid.,
p. 220
.

130: “a distillation of alcohol,” ibid.,
p. 220
.

130: “She just liked to drink,” ibid.,
p. 220
.

130: “people wet their whistles,” ibid.,
p. 220
.”

130: “The experienced drinker,” Morris,
p. 36
.

130: “Farm hands in the Midwest,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 221
.

131: “I call it legalized murder,” quoted in Mordden,
p. 135
.

131: “The victim of ‘jake paralysis,'” Shepherd,
CW
, July 26, 1930.

132: “so vicious a poison,” Burns,
Spirits
, 223.

132: “Recipes were invented,” Birmingham,
pp. 241
–2.

133: “In 1925,” ibid.,
p. 223
.

133: “In 1927,” Mordden,
p. 135
.

134: “During the period,” Kyvig,
Repealing
,
p. 24
.

134: “reviewed the literature,” Lender and Martin,
p. 139
.

135: Table of figures, and “Obviously, drinking decline,” Abels,
p. 87
.

135: “In 1943,” Lender and Martin,
p. 138
.

135: “seemed more clear-headed,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 280
.

137: “There is less drinking,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 282
.

Chapter Nine: Planning Parenthood

138: “if any of the Republican members,” quoted in Weatherford,
p. 241
.

139: “confidence that the [Ohio] legislature,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 241
.

139: “Many women also went,” ibid.,
p. 241
.

139: “devotion to states' rights,” ibid.,
p. 242
.

139: “that they filed suits,” ibid.,
p. 240
.

140: “conscience struck,” Weatherford,
p. 243
.

140: “Vote for suffrage,” quoted in Flexner and Fitzpatrick.

141: “Women screamed frantically,”
NYT
, August 19, 1920.

141: “a point of personal privilege,” and, “I changed my vote,” quoted in Weatherford,
p. 243
.

141: “Unable, despite threats and bribery,” Flexner,
pp. 323
–4.

142: “had no experience,” Weatherford,
p. 196
.

143: “Carrie Chapman Catt summed it up,” ibid.,
p. 244
.

143: “Never in the history of politics,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 242
.

145: “fine, clean and honest,” Gray,
p. 23
.

145: “Then she faced her worst test,” Douglas, Emily Taft,
p. 9
.

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