Threshold Resistance (23 page)

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Comparative density of U.S. vs. German cities in the 1890s, Kenneth T. Jackson, C
rabgrass Frontier,
Oxford University Press, 1985, p. 43.

17
“Our property seems to me…”: Jackson, p.12.

25
“If Victor Gruen invented the mall, Alfred Taubman perfected it…”: Malcolm Gladwell, “The Terrazzo Jungle,”
The New Yorker,
March 15, 2004, p.120.

26
“Superb buildings, filled with…”: Johann Friedrich Geist,
Arcades, The History of a Building Type,
The MIT Press, 1985, p. 10.

26
“One can divide the arcade into two broad categories…”: Geist, p. 70.

34
“Let us suppose that we are walking…”: Gordon Cullen,
The Concise Townscape,
The Architectural Press, 2004, p. 9.

35
“Suppose, however, that we take…”: Cullen, p. 9.

40
“His expensive patent leather shoes…”: Shopping Centers Grow into Shopping Cities,
Business Week,
September 4, 1971, p 34.

40
“Just look at this…”:
Business Week,
p. 34.

74
“In the 1930s and 1940s, as I was growing up…”: Marvin Traub
, Like No Other Store in the World—The Bloomingdale's Legend and the Revolution in American Marketing,
Crown, 1993.

98
“Graham Llewellyn knew that Alfred Taubman had taken control…”: Robert Lacey,
Sotheby's: Bidding for Class,
Little Brown and Company, 1998, p. 236.

104
“Before long there was spirited bidding…”: John Marion,
The Best of Everything,
Simon and Schuster, 1989.

122
“Forget the celebrity CEO…”: Family, Inc.,
Business Week,
November 10, 2003, p.100.

123
“With tight-knit family leaders…”:
Business Week,
November 10, 2003, p. 103

127
“Indeed, like a rich uncle, Taubman has a history of helping families…”: Albert Scardino,
The New York Times,
March 10, 1986.

152
“There wasn't any real evidence that they fixed prices…”: Christopher Mason,
The Art of the Steal,
G.P.Putnam's Sons, 2004, p. 347.

153
“Prior to 1993, a price-fixer who wanted amnesty…”: James B. Stewart, Bidding War,
The New Yorker,
October 15, 2001.

154
“Chris [Davidge] is a chief manipulator with a capital C…”: Mason, p. 355.

154
“I am writing to assure you…”: Mason, p. 221.

157
“Tennant firmly denied that he told Davidge to fix prices…”: Mason, p. 350.
157
“It never was a memo…”: Mason, p.350.

157
“He [Tennant] had no recollection…”: Mason, p. 351.

158
“Whether true or not, Tennant's articulate reflections…”: Mason, p. 349.

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“People in the same trade seldom meet together…”: Adam Smith,
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,
Great Books of the Western World, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1992, Vol. 36, p. 63.

166
“It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings…”: Smith, p. 36.

169
“We did coerce him…”: Mason, p. 346.

170
“Then the glamorous Judy Taubman walked into the courtroom…”: Dominic Dunne, Dominic Dunne's Diary,
Vanity Fair,
July, 2002.

172
“They are kept in federal courthouses across the United States…”: Benjamin Weiser, Judge's Decisions Draw Notice, for Being Late,
The New York Times,
December 6, 2004, p. A22.

173
“There was the woman in Queens…”: Weiser, p. A22.

180
“I discovered they were mostly the same people…”: Tom Walsh, “Takeover May be Over but the Odor Still Lingers,”
The Detroit Free Press,
October 9, 2003.

181
“Martin Cohen…who had criticized Taubman centers…”: Dean Starkman and Robin Sidel, Simon, Westfield Drop Taubman Bid,
The Wall Street Journal,
October 9, 2003

191
Henry Ford's $5 pay and
Wall Street Journal
criticism, Douglas Brinkley,
Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress,
Penguin Books, 2003, p.161.

A. A
LFRED
T
AUBMAN
is the founder of Taubman Centers, Inc., one of the nation's leading real estate developers and operators of regional shopping centers. During his business career he has owned Sotheby's Holdings, the Irvine Company, A&W Restaurants, the Woodward and Lothrop and John Wanamaker department store chains, and the Michigan Panthers of the United States Football League. He also served as a director of R. H. Macy Co., Getty Oil Company, Chase Manhattan Bank, and United Brands. A major benefactor to educational, medical, and art institutions, he lives in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

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