4. “I don’t have this burning thing” “Nixon’s Roger Ailes,” Washington Post.
5. Ailes arranged for a barber Author interview with Paul Turnley. In an interview, Andrew Stein confirmed that he wore a hairpiece but said he could not recall Ailes calling in a barber. Stein praised Ailes’s talents for communication. “He was a force of nature then too. It was a terrific experience.… I remember him saying something once: ‘Sometimes it’s important to say nothing, to have a pause. Some people always think they have to be talking, but that’s not true.’ ”
6. Jim Holshouser “Holshouser Releases Promised Tax Records,” United Press International (printed in Lexington, North Carolina’s The Dispatch), Aug. 12, 1974. See also http://www.wral.com/former-gov-jim-holshouser-dies/4369405/, http://www.unctv.org/content/biocon/jamesholshouser/installments.
7. Holshouser flew to New York Author interview with Paul Turnley.
8. “I don’t think” Author interview with Paul Turnley.
9. On February 12 Letter from Roger Ailes to Jack Rourke, Feb. 12, 1971.
10. born Ellen Boulton Earl Wilson, “Snakes Alive! Patrice Munsel Has Pet Boa,” Milwaukee Sentinel, June 24, 1974, http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EmlRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rBEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6410,1719404&dq=kelly-garrett&hl=en.
11. four years younger Tom Sharpe, “Kelly Garrett 1944–2013: Acclaimed Singer Had Roots in New Mexico,” New Mexican, Aug. 12, 2013.
12. she grew up in Santa Fe Jay Sharbutt, “Kelly Garrett Isn’t ‘Overnight’ Success,” Associated Press, published in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 1, 1974, http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1129&dat=19740710&id=e2QwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YW0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3300,1401941.
13. At age twenty-two Author interview with Kelly Garrett’s sister, Georgia Pearson. See also “California, Marriage Index, 1960–1985,” index, Michael T. Mikler and Ellen M. Boulton (1966), FamilySearch.
14. She got a divorce “California, Divorce Index, 1966–1984,” index, Ellen M. Boulton and Michael T. Mikler (1970), FamilySearch.
15. Rourke responded Letter from Jack Rourke to Roger Ailes, Feb. 24, 1971.
16. Ailes chose Mother Earth Entry for Mother Earth on Internet Broadway Database, http://ibdb.com/production.php?id=2966.
17. But the conservative spirit South Coast Repertory (historical account on the company’s website), http://www.scr.org/about/scrstory.aspx#.UYp1YYLuf3o.
18. Toni Tennille Bob Thomas, “Both Critics and Audience Like ‘Mother Earth,’ Stage Musical,” Associated Press, published in Daytona Beach Morning Journal, Aug. 25, 1971.
19. The musical, he wrote Script of original production of Mother Earth.
20. The show opened “Repertory Show Will Start Jan. 8,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 27, 1970.
21. “I am one” Script of original production of Mother Earth.
22. “After we ended” Author interview with South Coast cofounder Jim dePriest.
23. After successful runs Margaret Harford, “ ‘Mother Earth’ to Move to Bay Area,” Los Angeles Times, May 23, 1971; Gregg Kilday, “ ‘Mother Earth’ Set at Hartford,” Los Angeles Times, July 25, 1971.
24. Ray Golden “Screen News Here and in Hollywood,” New York Times, Feb. 22, 1941; “The Theatre: New Revue in Manhattan,” Time, Sept. 19, 1955; “Openings of the Week,” New York Times, Jan. 15, 1950.
25. “Roger came back” Author interview with Paul Turnley.
26. Over lunch Author interview with April Garrett, Ron Thronson’s widow.
27. A couple of months before Louis Calta, “2 Musicals Set Their Premieres,” New York Times, Sept. 7, 1972; author interview with April Garrett.
28. “It turned into” Author interview with Martin Benson.
29. “We got bamboozled” Jan Herman, “Toni Tennille: No Hits but ‘Always Sold Out,’ ” Los Angeles Times, April 10, 1988.
30. he met the Broadway producer Scott Collins, Crazy Like a Fox: The Inside Story of How Fox News Beat CNN (New York: Penguin, 2004), 29.
31. His string Albin Krebs, “Kermit Bloomgarden, Producer of Many Outstanding Plays, Dead,” New York Times, Sept. 21, 1976.
32. “Given the circumstance” Author interview with Kermit Bloomgarden’s son John Bloomgarden.
33. During the height of McCarthyism California Senate, Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities, 1948: Communist Front Organizations, 1948, http://archive.org/stream/reportofsenatefa00calirich/reportofsenatefa00calirich_djvu.txt.
34. Though Bloomgarden was never called See, for instance, Elia Kazan, A Life (New York: Da Capo, 1997), 440, 461, 592.
35. “What the hell” Author interview with Robert Cohen. Bloomgarden was not a Nixon supporter. During the 1968 campaign, he helped produce a “Garden Rally for McCarthy” hosted by Tony Randall at the Waldorf-Astoria. The A-list crowd of attendees included Mike Nichols, Dustin Hoffman, Leonard Bernstein, Alan Arkin, Neil Simon, Barbra Streisand, and Arthur Miller. (Private Papers of Kermit Bloomgarden obtained from the Wisconsin Historical Society.) When Robert Cohen went to work for Ailes, Bloomgarden would ask Cohen about Ailes’s politics. “Every now and then Kermit would ask, ‘Do you talk about politics with Roger?’ ” Cohen recalled. “And I said, ‘As little as possible to be very honest with you. It’s not my politics, you know that.’ He goes, ‘Yeah.’ ”
36. Bloomgarden earned Author interview with Stephen Rosenfield.
37. To finance Mother Earth Author interview with Howard Butcher IV.
38. Frank Coombs Author interview with dancer Frank Coombs.
39. Cast member John Bennett Perry Author interview with actor John Bennett Perry.
40. “He’d sit in the back room” Author interview with actor Rick Podell.
41. “She was striking looking” Author interview with John Bennett Perry.
42. “Roger made sure” Author interview with Rick Podell.
43. Frank Coombs, who was asked Author interview with Frank Coombs.