2 Anonymous, to Mr Carl Murphy, June 26, 1943, in McGuire, Taps for a Jim Crow Army, 42-44.
3 Franklin D. Roosevelt, State of the Union Address, January 6, i942, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=i6253 (August
i, 20i0).
4 Roosevelt, Annual Address on the State of the Union, January 6, 1941; and Inaugural Address, January 20, i94i.
5 Philip Van Doren Stern (ed.), The Pocket Book of America (New York: Pocket Books, i942), Introduction by Dorothy Thompson, v, vii.
6 Edward Everett Hale, “The Man Without a Country,” in The Man Without a Country and Other Stories (Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1995) 7-8.
7 Langston Hughes, “My America,” Journal of Educational Sociology, 16:6 (February, 1943) 334-6, quotations 336.
8 General George C. Marshall, “Speech to the Graduating Class, United States Military Academy, May 29, 1942,” available at: http://www.marshall foundation.org/Database.htm (August 10, 2010).
9 GI quoted in Paul Fussell, The Boys’ Crusade, American G.I.s in Europe: Chaos and Fear in World War Two (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004)
4i.
10 New York Times, August 8, 1943.
11 “Defeat at Detroit,” The Nation, July 3, 1943: 4.
12 Henry R. Luce, “The American Century,” Life, February 17, 1941, reprinted in Michael J. Hogan (ed.), The Ambiguous Legacy: U.S. Foreign Relations in the ‘American Century,’ (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, i999) i2, 20, 26.
13 Henry A. Wallace, “The Price of Free World Victory,” in Russell Lord (ed.), Democracy Reborn (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1944) 190.
14 Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Fireside Chat 36,” June 5, 1944, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=i65i4 (August 20,
2010).
15 Harry S. Truman, “Special Message to Congress,” March 12, 1947, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=i2846&st= &sti= (August 20, 2010).
16 Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944. Reprint. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003) 562.
17 To Secure These Rights: The Report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights (1947), available at: http://www.trumanlibrary.org/civilrights/ srightsi.htm (August 22, 2010):) 80, 82, 87, 139.
18 Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), available at: http: //caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=347&invol=
483 (August 22, 2010).
19 Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Special Message to Congress on the Situation in the Middle East,” January 5, 1957, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb. edu/ws/index.php?pid=iioo7&st=&sti= (August 23, 2010).
20 Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Annual Message to Congress on the State of the Union,” January 9, 1958, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/ index.php?pid=iii62 (August 23, 2010).
21 John F. Kennedy, “First Inaugural Address,” January 20, i960, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=8o32 (August 23, 2010).
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1 Johnson, quoted in Robert Dallek, Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) 170.
2 The commercial can be viewed via the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, available at: http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/media/ daisyspot/ (September i, 2010).
3 Lyndon B. Johnson, “Special Message to Congress: The American Promise,” March 15, 1965, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index .php?pid=268o5&st=&sti= (September 3, 2010).
4 ‘A Divided Decade: The “60s,” Life, Vol. 26 (December 26, 1969): 8-9.
5 Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Farewell Radio and Television Address to the American People,” January 17, 1961, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb .edu/ws/index.php?pid=i2o86&st=&sti= (September 3, 2010).
6 Kennedy, quoted in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (1978. Reprint. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002) 705.
7 The reaction to the Revolutionary War and World War I are discussed in previous chapters. Figures for American attitudes toward Vietnam are taken from Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Peace Now! American Society and the Ending of the Vietnam War, New Edition (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001)
i4 -i5 .
8 Tom Hayden et al., “The Port Huron Statement,” (1962), available at: http:// www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTMLdocs/Resources/Primary/Manifestos/ SDS_Port_Huron.html (September 4, 2010).
9 Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968), available at: http://www.eisenhowerfoundation.org/docs/kerner.pdf (September 4, 2010).
10 Richard M. Nixon, “Inaugural Address,” January 20, i969, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=i94i (September 4,
20i0).
11 Ronald Reagan, “Inaugural Address,” January 20, 1981, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=43i30 (September 5,
2010).
12 William J. Clinton, “Inaugural Address,” January 20, 1993, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=46366 (September 5, 2020).
13 Thomas P. Bonczar, “Prevalence of Imprisonment in the U.S. Populations, 1974-2001” (NCJ-197976); Bureau of Justice, available at: http://bjs.ojp. usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2200 (September 5, 2010).
14 Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address,” January 20, 2009, available at: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=44 (September 5, 2010).
All the works in this selective guide to further reading contain substantial bibliographies for readers wishing to pursue any topic(s) in depth.
Colonial America
Victoria De John Anderson, New England’s generation: the great migration and the formation of society and culture in the seventeenth century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Bernard Bailyn, The New England merchants in the seventeenth century (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955)
Bernard Bailyn, Atlantic history: concept and contours (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005)
T.H. Breen, Puritans and adventurers: change and persistence in early America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1980)
Francis J. Bremer, The Puritan experiment: New England society from Bradford to Edward (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1995)