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Cold War America
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Taylor Branch, Pillar of fire: America in the King years, 1963-65 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998)
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19 Grover Cleveland, Veto Message, March 2, 1897. available at: http://www. presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=70845 (April 20, 2010).
20 Ravage, An American in the Making, 156-7.
21 Owen Wister, “The Evolution of the Cow-Puncher,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 91 (September 1895) 602-17, quotations 603-4.
22 Rockefeller quoted in Richard Hofstadter, Social Darwinism in American Thought, Revised Ed. (Boston: The Beacon Press, 1955) 45-6.
23 Abraham Lincoln, “Annual Message to Congress,” December 3, i86i, in Basler (ed), Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, V, 52.
24 Simon Nelson Patten, The Theory of Social Forces (Philadelphia: The American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1896) 143.
25 Strong, Our Country, 41, 48, 44.
26 Henry Benjamin Whipple, Preface to Helen Hunt (Jackson)’s, A Century of Dishonor (New York: Harper and Brothers, i88i) vi.
Chapter 8: The Soldier’s Faith: Conflict and Conformity
1 Official Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention Held in Chicago, Illinois, July 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, 1896 (Logansport, Indiana, 1896) 226-34, 230.
2 J.B. Henderson speech, Wilmington, Delaware, October 19, 1896, quoted St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 30, 1896.
3 Roosevelt quoted in H. W. Brands, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995) 258.
4 New York Mail and Express quoted in Jonathan Auerbach, “McKinley at Home: How Early American Cinema Made News,” American Quarterly, 51, 4 (December 1999) 797-832, 806.
5 McKinley’s first inauguration can be viewed via YouTube, available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4uOmSEw5-U.
6 James Monroe, Annual Message to Congress, Senate, December 2, 1823, Annals of Congress, 18th Congress, 1st Session, 13-14.
7 Alfred Thayer Mahan, “The United States Looking Outward,” The Atlantic Monthly, 66: 398 (December, 1890) 816-34, 817, 819.
8 Josiah Strong, Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis (New York: The American Home Mission Society, 1885) v, 218, 165, 177, 218.
9 “Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League,” in Frederick Bancroft (ed.), Speeches, Correspondence, and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, Vol. 6 (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1913) 77; Erving Winslow, The AntiImperialist League: Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Boston: Anti-Imperialist League, 1908) 14.
10 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “The Soldier’s Faith: An Address Delivered on Memorial Day, May 30, 1895, Harvard University,” in Richard A. Posner (ed.), The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 1992) 87-8, 92.
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