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NOTES

Introduction

xi:    “a punishing, postwar recession,” Miller, Donald L.,
p. 115
.

xii:   “When will hate be exhausted?”, quoted in McAuliffe,
p. 309
.

xii:   “shallow, depraved, and corrupt,” Bryson,
p. 68
.

xii:   “some kind of radical depletion,” quoted in Niven,
p. 166
.

xii:   “Neither race had won,” Fussell,
p. 13
.

xiv:  “Prohibition is better,” and “Why don't they pass,” www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/prohibition.html.

Chapter One: “Two Sheets of Flame”

3:     “was very short and stocky,” Bryson,
p. 282
.

5:     “technology of haste,” Boorstin,
p. 102
.

5:     “with little regard to safety,” ibid.,
p. 103
.

6:     “a national disgrace,” and “made of dirt,” Winchester,
p. 282
.

6:     “By the final decade,” McFarland,
p. 31
.

7:     “a small ‘mobilization army,'” www.history.army.mil/books/AMH-V2/AMH%20V2/chapter2.htm.

9:     “For millions of people,” McCullough, p. 614.

9:     “Wall Street seemed to be,” Gage,
p. 18
.

9:     “Sales and re-sales,”
WSJ
, July 4, 1919.

10:   “the sidewalks were as usual thronged,” Sullivan,
United States
,
p. 176
.

10:   
“aggregation of ingenuity,” and “powered the unprecedented,” McFarland,
p. 231
.

11:   “While in Juneau Tuesday,”
NYT
, July 16, 1920.

11:   “little correspondence,” and, “inflated rises,” Bryson,
p. 208
.

12:   “Fluctuations in sugar,”
MWS
,
p. 13
.

13:   “the explosion darkened the area,” Brooks,
p. 1
.

13:   “That was the loudest noise,” quoted in Gage,
p. 31
.

13:   “I was sitting at my desk,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 32
.

13:   “was at the southeast corner,” quoted in ibid., p
p. 31
–2.

13:   “‘he felt a concussion,” Nasaw,
Patriarch
,
p. 69
.

13:   “was lifted completely,” ibid.,
p. 31
.

14:   “Survivors on the street,” Brooks,
p. 5
.

14:   “was hurled down the steps,” Gage,
p. 32
.

14:   “For several blocks,” Sullivan,
p. 177
.

14:   “A nearby automobile,”
NYP
, “Wall Street's Unsolved Bombing Mystery,” Richard Bryk, March 26, 2001. Posted in
Breaking News, Posts
.

14:   “as nine-tenths of a billion dollars,” Brooks,
p. 9
.

Chapter Two: Homeland Security

20:   “The joint session,” quoted in Reed,
pp. 270
–271.

21:   “were found to be carrying,” and “neither man had been arrested,” Bryson, 275.

22:   “one of the most notorious anarchists,” quoted in Gage,
p. 207
.

22:   “licking the altars,” quoted in Bryson,
p. 280
.

23:   “With his neatly trimmed beard,” Gage,
p. 208
.

23:   “hatred of capitalism,” Avrich,
Portraits
,
p. 167
.

24:   “[o]ne of the most difficult,” Avrich,
Sacco and Vanzetti
,
p. 209
.

24:   “Mrs. Martin's linen closet,” Wade,
p. 33
.

25:   “in caves in the bowels,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 43
.

27:   “blaze of revolution,” and “like a prairie fire,” quoted in ibid.,
p. 165
.

27:   “announced that a plot,” Daniels,
p. 46
.

27:   “as if something,” quoted in Bryson,
p. 278
.

27:   “Alice [Roosevelt] Longworth,” ibid.,
p. 46
.

27:   “a terrific explosion,” Murray,
Red Scare
,
p. 78
.

28:   “This was a big loss,” Bryson,
p. 279
.

28:   “The more I think of it,” quoted in Coben,
p. 71
.

29:   “initiated the first,” Gage,
p. 120
.

29:   “most spectacular,” Moore,
p. 227
.

30:   “2,000 REDS ARRESTED,”
NYW
, January 3, 1920,
p. 1
.

30:   “Meetings wide open,”
NYT
, January 3, 1920,
p. 1
.

30:   “I was sent up,” quoted in Coben,
pp. 228
–9.

30:   “some six thousand to ten thousand,” Bryson,
p. 281
.

31:   
“There is no time,”
WP
, January 4, 1920,
p. 4
.

31:   “The January raids,” Murray,
Red Scare
,
p. 217
.

31:   “halted the advance,” ibid.,
p. 217
.

32:   “only 762 were ordered deported,” Cannato,
pp. 326
–7.

32:   “By then,” ibid.,
p. 326
.

32:   “many domestic radicals,” Murray,
Red Scare
,
p. 240
.

32:   “complete collapse,” and “The Attorney-General,” quoted in Coben,
p. 222
.

33:   “one-legged, one-armed,”
NYW
, November 25, 1919.

33:   “perpetual joke,” ibid.

33:   “The passport regulations,”
NYT
, July 18, 1920.

Chapter Three: The Long, Black Night of the Spirits

40:   “I came unexpectedly,” quoted in Kobler,
p. 119
.

40:   “east to Wheeling,” Burns,
Spirits
,
p. 105
.

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