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18
Robert Sklar (ed.)
,
The Plastic Age 1917–1930
(New York 1970), 14
.

19
Albert E. Sawyer, ‘The Enforcement of National Prohibition’
,
Annals
,
September 1932
.

20
Alan Block
,
East Side, West Side: Organized Crime in New York 1930–1950
(Cardiff 1980)
.

21
The Illinois Crime Survey
(Chicago 1929), 909–19
.

22
Lloyd Wendt and Herman Cogan
,
Big Bill of Chicago
(Indianapolis 1953), 271ff
.

23
Charles Fecher
,
Mencken: a Study of his Thought
(New York 1978), 159
.

24
Sidney Bulletin
,
20 July 1922; for non-enforcement, see Charles Merz
,
The Dry Decade
(New York 1931), 88, 107, 123–4, 144, 154
.

25
T.K.Derry
,
A History of Modern Norway 1814–1972
(Oxford 1973), 301–4
.

26
The Prohibition Amendment: Hearings before the Committee of the judiciary, 75th Congress, Second Session
(Washington DC 1930), Part I, 12–31
.

27
Mark H. Haller, ‘The Changing Structure of American Gambling in the Twentieth Century’
,
Journal of Social Issues
,
xxxv
,
(1979), 87–114
.

28
For instance, Annelise Graebner Anderson
,
The Business of Organized Crime: a Cosa Nostra Family
(Stanford 1979)
.

29
Quoted in Seymour Martin Lipset, ‘Marx, Engels and America’s Political Parties’
,
Wilson Review
,
Winter 1979
.

30
David Shannon
,
The Socialist Party of America: a History
(New York 1955)
.

31
Theodore Draper
,
The Roots of American Communism
(New York 1957)
.

32
John Hicks
,
The Republican Ascendancy 1921–1933
(New York 1960)
.

33
Robert Murray
,
The Harding Era
(University of Minnesota 1969), 67
.

34
Dulles, op. cit., 302
.

35
Murray, op. cit., 70
.

36
Ibid., 420
.

37
Andrew Turnbull (ed.)
,
Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald
(New York 1963), 326
.

38
Murray, op. cit., 112
.

39
Quoted in Murray N. Rothbard
,
America’s Great Depression
(Los Angeles 1972), 167
.

40
Murray, op. cit., 178–9
.

41
New York Times
,
14 October 1922; see Fritz Marx, ‘The Bureau of the Budget: its Evolution and Present Role’
,
American Political Science Review
,
August 1945
.

42
Murray, op. cit., 168–9
.

43
Ibid., 117–19
.

44
Ibid., 108
.

45
Investigation of Veterans Bureau: Hearings before Select Committee, US Senate
(Washington DC 1923)
.

46
Burl Noggle, ‘The Origins of the Teapot Dome Investigation’
,
Mississippi Valley Historical Review
,
September 1957; M.R.Werner and John Starr
,
Teapot Dome
(New York 1959), 194–277; Murray, op. cit., 473
.

47
Murray, op. cit., 486–7
.

48
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
,
Crowded Hours
(New York 1933), 324–5
.

49
Arthur M. Schlesinger, ‘Our Presidents: a Rating by Seventy-five Historians’
,
New York Times Magazine
,
29 July 1962; for a full analysis of the historiography of Harding, see Murray, op. cit., 487–528
.

50
William Allen White
,
A Puritan in Babylon
(New York 1938), 247
.

51
Donald McCoy
,
Calvin Coolidge: the Quiet President
(New York 1967), 33, 158ff., 139–41
.

52
Ishbel Ross
,
Grace Coolidge and her Era
(New York 1962), 65
.

53
Mark de Wolf Howe (ed.)
,
The Holmes-Laski Letters 1916–1935
,
2 vols (Harvard 1953), 1673
.

54
Quoted in Sklar, op. cit., 297
.

55
McCoy, op. cit., 256–63
.

56
Gamaliel Bradford
,
The Quick and the Dead
(Boston 1931), 241
.

57
McCoy, op. cit., 99, 58, 208ff., 255
.

58
Calvin Coolidge
,
Autobiography
(New York 1929)
.

59
Howard Quint and Robert Ferrell (eds)
,
The Talkative President: Off-the-Record Press Conferences of Calvin Coolidge
(Amhurst 1964), preface
.

60
McCoy, op. cit., 384, 395
.

61
Ibid., 53–5
.

62
Calvin Coolidge: ‘Government and Business’ in
Foundations of the Republic: Speeches and Addresses
(New York 1926), 317–32
.

63
F. Scott Fitzgerald
,
The Crack-up
,
ed. by Edmund Wilson (New York 1945)
.

64
Letter to Maxwell Geismar, 10 June 1942, in Elena Wilson (ed.)
,
Edmund Wilson: Letters on Literature and Politics 1912–1972
(New York 1977), 385
.

65
James Truslow Adams
,
The Epic of America
(Boston 1931), 400
.

66
Michael Rostovtzeff
,
A Social and Economic History of the Roman
Empire (Yale 1926), 487
.

67
Stuart Chase
,
Prosperity: Fact or Myth?
(New York 1930)
.

68
George Soule
,
Prosperity Decade from War to Depression 1917–1929
(New York 1947)
.

69
Cited in Sklar, op. cit
.

70
Rostow
,
World Economy
209 and Table m—38; Harold Underwood Faulkner
,
American Economic History
(New York 7th ed. 1954), 622
.

71
Faulkner, op. cit., 624
.

72
Ibid., 607–8
.

73
Sinclair Lewis, ‘Main Street’s Been Paved!’
Nation
,
10 September 1924
.

74
Herbert Blumer
,
Movies and Conduct
(New York 1933), 243–7, 220–3
.

75
Sophia Breckenridge, ‘The Activities of Women Outside the Home’ in
Recent Social Trends in the US
(New York 1930), 709–50
.

76
Samuel Schmalhausen and V.F.Calverton (eds)
,
Woman’s Coming of Age: a Symposium
(New York 1931), 536–49
.

77
R.S. and H.R.Lynd, Middletown:
a Study in Modern American Culture
(New York 1929), 251–63
.

78
LewisL.Lorwin
,
The American Federation of Labour: History, Policies and Prospects
(New York 1933), 279
.

79
R.W.Dunn, The Americanization of Labour
(New York 1927), 153, 193–4
.

80
Kenneth M. Goode and Harford Powel
,
What About Advertising?
(New York 1927)
.

81
Warren Suzman (ed.)
,
Culture and Commitment 1929–1945
(New York 1973)
.

82
See Leon Edel
,
The Life of Henry James
(London 1977 ed.), I Chapter 84: ‘A Storm in the Provinces’
.

83
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Preface to
A Marble Faun
(Boston 1860)
.

84
Lionel Trilling, ‘Manners, Morals and the Novel’, printed in
The Liberal Imagination
(1950)
.

85
E.g., ‘Best Sort of Mother’, written for J.M.Barrie’s burlesque
Rosy Rapture;
see Gerald Boardman
,
Jerome Kern: his Life and Music
(Oxford 1980)
.

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