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[Bourne]:
Louis Filler,
Randolph Bourne
(American Council
on
Public Affairs, 1943); Max Lerner, “Randolph Bourne and Two Generations,”
Twice a Year,
vols. 5–6 (double number: Fall–Winter 1940 and Spring–Summer 1941), pp. 54–78.

[Oppenheim on Bourne]:
“The Story of the
Seven Arts,”
p. 163.

[Mencken and
The Smart Set]: Wertheim, ch. 12; C. L. Bode,
Mencken
(Southern Illinois University Press, 1969), esp. ch. 5. The six-volume “series” of
Prejudices
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1919–27) offers a selection, with some revisions, of Mencken’s contributions to
The Smart Set.

315
[Mencken’s ambition for
The Smart Set]: quoted in Wertheim, p. 197.

[“Poet’s Free Lunch”]: ibid., p.
196; Bode, p. 71.

[Mencken and the new poets]:
Mencken, “The New Poetry Movement,” in Mencken,
Prejudices: First Series
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1919), pp. 83–96.

[Others]: Wertheim, pp. 102–8.

[Poetry]: Harriet Monroe,
A Poet’s Life
(Macmillan, 1938), esp. chs. 24–27; Dale Kramer,
Chicago Renaissance: The Literary Life in the Midwest, 1900–1930
(Appleton-Century, 1966), ch. 15; “Bastien von Helmholtz” (Ezra Pound), “Review:
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse,” The Egoist
(reprinted by Kraus Reprint), vol. 1, no. 11 (June 1, 1914), p. 215.

[Monroe circular]:
quoted in Monroe, p. 251.

[“Keenest young literary group”]: ibid.,
p. 259.

316
[Pound’s letter to Monroe]:
August 18, 1912, in D. D. Paige, ed.,
The Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907–1941
(Harcourt, Brace, 1950), pp. 9–10, quoted at p. 10.

[Principles of Imagism]:
“F. S. Flint” (Ezra Pound), “Imagisme,”
Poetry,
vol. 1, no. 6 (March 1913), p. 199.

[“Image” defined]:
Pound, “A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste,”
ibid.,
p. 200.

[Dreiser and Mencken]:
W. A. Swanberg,
Dreiser
(Scribner’s, 1965), pp. 124–27, Dreiser quoted at p. 126; Bode, pp. 103–5.

317
[Dreiser’s family]:
Swanberg, ch. 1.

[Dreiser’s years before
Carrie]:
ibid.,
pp. 23–81.

[Dreiser as first important American writer from a non-Anglo-Saxon, lower-class background]:
John Lydenberg, “Theodore Dreiser: Ishmael in the Jungle,” in Lydenberg, ed.,
Dreiser: A Collection of Critical Essays
(Prentice-Hall, 1971), p. 24.

318
[Ford on Dreiser]:
Ford, “Theodore Dreiser,”
The American Mercury,
vol. 40, no. 160 (April 1937). p. 495.

[Doubleday and
Carrie]: Swanberg, pp. 85–90.

[Early reviews of
Carrie]:
ibid.,
pp. 91–92; Donald Pizer, ed.,
Critical Essays on Theodore Dreiser
(G. K. Hall, 1981), pp. 157–68.

[“Mr. Dreiser can not punctuate”]:
Harriet Merton Lyon, “Theodore Dreiser’s ‘Sister Carrie’ ” (1907), in Pizer, p. 163.

319
[Markels on Dreiser]:
Markel, “Dreiser and the Plotting of Inarticulate Experience,” in Pizer, p. 186.

[“Bitter, brutal insistence”]:
Dreiser,
The ‘Genius’
(Horace Liveright, 1923), p. 231.

[“Old, mournful Carrie”]:
Dreiser,
Sister Carrie
(“The Pennsylvania Edition”; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981), p. 487.

[“Rubber-stamp formulae”]:
Mencken, “The Dreiser Bugaboo,”
The Seven Arts
(reprinted .by AMS), vol. 2 (August 1917). p. 517.

[Young Edith Jones]:
Edith Wharton,
A Backward Glance
(D. Appleton-Century, 1934), chs. 1–4; R. W. B. Lewis,
Edith Wharton
(Harper & Row, 1975), chs. 2–3.

[Father’s library]: Backward Glance,
pp. 64–72.

[First literary effort]: ibid.,
p. 73.

[Trilling on Wharton]:
Diana Trilling,
“The House of Mirth
Revisited,” in Irving Howe, ed.,
Edith Wharton: A Collection of Critical Essays
(Prentice-Hall, 1962), p. 105.

[Kazin on function of genteel women]:
Kazin,
On Native Grounds
(Doublcday, 1956), p. 55.

321
[“What marriage was really like”]:
quoted in Lewis, p. 53.

322
[Archer on emancipating his wife]:
Wharton,
The Age of Innocence
(Modern Library, 1920), p. 196.

[Roosevelt on cleaning out the stable]: Age of Innocence,
pp. 348–49.

[Best-sellers, 1901–1908]:
Richard B. Morris, ed.,
Encyclopedia of American History
(Harper & Row, 1976), p. 858.

[Sales of
Age of Innocence]: Lewis, p. 429.

[Dreiser on discovering America]:
quoted in Kazin, p. 68.

323
[Generous illusions and mean truths]:
Wharton,
The House of Mirth
(Berkley Books, 1981), p. 71.

“All That Is Solid Melts into Air”

[Paterson strike and pageant]:
John Reed, “War in Paterson,” in William L. O’Neill, ed.,
Echoes of Revolt:
The Masses, 1911–1917 (Quadrangle, 1966), pp. 143–47; William D. Haywood,
Bill Haywood’s Book
(International Publishers, 1929), pp. 261–64; Joyce L. Kornbluh,
Rebel Voices: An I.W.W. Anthology
(University of Michigan Press, 1964), ch. 7; Wertheim,
op. cit.,
pp. 51–57.

[Bourne on pageant]:
Randolph Bourne, “Pageantry and Social Art,” in Bourne,
The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911–1918,
Olaf Hansen, ed. (Urizen Books, 1977), p. 519.

324
[Flynn’s judgment of pageant]:
Flynn, “The Truth about the Paterson Strike,” address given January 13, 1914, reprinted in Kornbluh, pp. 215–25, esp. pp. 221–22.

9. THE REFORMATION OF ECONOMIC POWER

325
[Roosevelt’s pre-presidential career]:
Edmund Morris,
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
(Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979); David McCullough,
Mornings on Horseback
(Simon and Schuster, 1981); Elting E. Morison, ed.,
The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt
(Harvard University Press, 1951–54), vol. 1.

326
[Roosevelt’s personality and views]:
John Morton Blum,
The Republican Roosevelt
(Harvard University Press, 1967); Edward Wagenknecht,
The Seven Worlds of Theodore Roosevelt
(Longmans, Green, 1958); John M. Blum, “Theodore Roosevelt: The Years of Decision,” appendix 9, in Morison,
Letters,
vol. 1, pp. 1484–94; Morris; McCullough.

[Roosevelt’s killing of neighbor’s dog]:
Morris, p. 98.

[Roosevelt on Irish fellow legislators]:
Theodore Roosevelt, “Diary of Five Months in the New York Legislature,” in Morison,
Letters,
vol. 2, appendix 1, pp. 1469–73, quoted at p. 1470.

[“Wealthy criminal class”]:
quoted in Wagenknecht, p. 217.

[Roosevelt and Social Darwinism]:
William Henry Harbaugh,
Power and Responsibility
(Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961), pp. 62, 92, 99, 140.

[Roosevelt on self-help and struggle]:
quoted in Morris, pp. 348, 571.

[Roosevelt on the “best classes” and on sterilizing the criminal and the feebleminded]:
quoted in Wagenknecht, p. 86.

327
[Roosevelt’s reading]:
Blum in Morison, vol. 1, pp. 1488–91.

[Roosevelt on social critics]:
quoted in
ibid.,
p. 1491.

327
[Roosevelt’s qualified admiration of Tolstoy]:
Harbaugh, p. 460.

[Roosevelt on Longfellow]:
Roosevelt to Arlo Bates, September 29, 1897, in Morison,
Letters,
vol. 1, p. 695.

[Roosevelt on Chaucer]:
Roosevelt to Cecil Arthur Spring Rice, May 3, 1892, in
ibid.,
vol. 1, p. 277.

[Roosevelt in his biographies of Benton and Cromwell]:
Morris, pp. 332–35, 705.

[Adams on Roosevelt]:
Adams,
The Education of Henry Adams
(Houghton Mifflin, 1974). p. 417.

[Roosevelt’s anger over query as to his presidential ambition]:
Lincoln Steffens,
The Autobiography
o
f Lincoln Steffens
(Harcourt, Brace, 1931), pp. 258–60, Roosevelt quoted at pp. 259, 260.

328
[“The Man with the Hoe”]:
quoted in Mark Sullivan,
Our Times
(Scribner’s, 1926–35), vol. 2,p. 239.

The Personal Uses of Power

[“I was a sickly and timid boy”]:
Roosevelt to Edward Sanford Martin, November 26, 1900, in Morison,
Letters, op. cit.,
vol. 2, pp. 1442–45, quoted at pp. 1442, 1443.

329
[Roosevelt on history]: ibid.,
p. 1444.

[“Deep and damnable alliance”]:
quoted in William Allen White,
The Autobiography of William Allen White
(Macmillan, 1946), pp. 297–98.

[White on Roosevelt]: ibid.,
p. 298.

[Franchise tax bill]:
Morris,
op. cit.,
p. 698.

330
[Program of “moderately positive action”]:
Harbaugh,
op.cit.,
pp. 155–57, quoted at p. 155.

[Mr. Dooley on Roosevelt’s antitrust policy]:
quoted in Elmer Ellis,
Mr. Dooley’s America: A Life of Finley Peter Dunne
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1941), p. 170.

[Aldrich and Quay]:
Nathaniel W. Stephenson,
Nelson W. Aldrich
(Scribner’s, 1930); James A. Kehl,
Boss Rule in the Gilded Age: Matthew Quay of Pennsylvania
(University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981).

[Hanna on Roosevelt as “madman” and as “cowboy”]:
quoted in Henry F. Pringle,
Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography
(Harcourt, Brace, 1931), p. 223; and in H. H. Kohlsaat,
From McKinley to Harding
(Scribner’s, 1923), p. 101.

331
[Reed’s retirement]:
Samuel W. McCall,
The Life ofThomas Brackett Reed
(Houghton Mifflin,1914), ch. 20.

[“Go slow”]:
quoted in Harbaugh, p. 155.

[Robinson’s warning to Roosevelt about business confidence]:
quoted in
ibid.,
pp. 153–54.

[Roosevelt’s reply]:
Roosevelt to Douglas Robinson, October 4, 1901, in Morison,
Letters,
vol. 3, pp. 159–60.

[Morgan]:
Frederick Lewis Allen,
The Great Pierpont Morgan
(Harper & Bros., 1949); Herbert L. Satterlee, J.
Pierpont Morgan
(Macmillan, 1939).

332
[Early prosecutions under the Sherman Antitrust Act]:
Hans B. Thorelli,
The Federal Antitrust Policy
(Johns Hopkins Press, 1955), esp. chs. 7 and 8.

[Roosevelt on corporate control as question of presidential and popular power]:
Thorelli, pp. 423–24; Theodore Roosevelt,
An Autobiography,
as quoted in Harbaugh, p. 149.

[Morgan-Roosevelt relationship]:
Roosevelt to William Thomas O’Neil, November 12, 1882, in Morison,
Letters,
vol. 1, p. 58, footnote 2; Roosevelt to Elihu Root, December 5, 1900, in
ibid.,
vol. 2, p. 1450; Allen, ch. 11; Satterlee,
passim.

[Morgan-Knox-Roosevelt dialogue and Roosevelt’s subsequent reflections]:
quoted in Joseph B. Bishop,
Theodore Roosevelt and His Time
(Scribner’s, 1920), vol. 1, pp. 184–85.

333
[Coalstrike,
1902]: Robert J. Cornell,
The Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902
(Catholic Universityof America Press, 1957); Robert H. Wiebe, “The Anthracite Strike of 1902: A Record of Confusion,”
Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
vol. 48, no. 2 (September 1961), pp.229–51; Harbaugh, ch. 10.

[Baer on the rights of laboring men]:
quoted in Harbaugh, p. 173.

[Roosevelt on behavior at White House conference]:
quoted in Pringle, p. 272.

[Campaign of 1904 ]:
William E. Harbaugh, “Election of 1904,” in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ed.,
History of American Presidential Elections
(Chelsea House, 1971), vol. 3, pp. 1965–2046.

334
[Roosevelt and the admission of three new states]:
George E. Mowry,
The Era of TheodoreRoosevelt
(Harper & Bros., 1958), p. 126.

334
[Harbaugh on campaign shenanigans]:
Harbaugh,
Power and Responsibility,
p. 217.

[Roosevelt on no third term]:
quoted in
ibid.,
p. 232.

[Blum on “central issue”]:
Blum,
The Republican Roosevelt, op. cit.,
p. 86.

[Roosevelt on transportation]: Congressional Record,
59th Congress, 1st Session (vol. 40, part 1), December 5, 1905, pp. 91–105, quoted at p. 93.

335
[Rail reform legislation]:
Blum,
Republican Roosevelt,
ch. 6.

[Roosevelt to Lodge on Holmes]:
reprinted in William M. Goldsmith, ed..
The Growth of Presidential Power
(Chelsea House, 1974), vol. 2, pp. 1160–62; see also John Garraty, “Holmes’ Appointment to the Supreme Court,”
New England Quarterly,
vol. 22, no. 3 (March 1949), pp. 291–303; Max Lerner. ed.,
The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes
(Little, Brown, 1943), pp. xxxi–xxxvi, 217–31.

[Roosevelt on Holmes’s lack of “backbone”]:
quoted in Harbaugh,
Power and Responsibility,
p. 162.

Foreign Policy with the TR Brand

336
[Correspondence, Roosevelt-style]:
Morison,
Letters, op. cit.,
vol. 3, pp. 651, 625, 599, respectively. See also Wagenknecht,
op. cit.,
p. 9.

337
[Interview with Roosevelt]:
Diary of Sir Mortimer Durand, quoted in Eugene P. Trani,
The Treaty of Portsmouth: An Adventure in American Diplomacy
(University of Kentucky Press, 1969), pp. 15–16.

[Panama Canal diplomacy]:
Thomas A. Bailey,
A Diplomatic History of the American People,
9th ed. (Prentice-Hall, 1974), ch. 33; Lawrence O. Ealy,
Yanqui Politics and the Isthmian Canal
(Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971), chs. 4–6; Walter LaFeber,
The Panama Canal: The Crisis in Historical Perspective
(Oxford University Press, 1978), ch. 2; David McCullough,
The Path Between the Seas
(Simon and Schuster, 1977), chs. 10–14.

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