Made In America (69 page)

15
Carr,
The Oldest Delegate,
p. 16.

16
Boorstin,
The Americans: The National Experience,
p. 357.

17
Mee, op. cit., p. 90.

18
P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 6, p. 376.

19
Cooke,
Alistair Cooke’s America,
p. 140.

20
Mee, op. cit., p. 120.

21
Ibid., p. 237.

22
Boorstin,
Hidden History,
p. 187.

23
Boorstin,
The Americans: The National Experience,
p. 402.

24
Ibid., p. 415.

25
Ernst and Schwartz,
Censorship,
p. 8.

26
Morison, op. cit., p. 311.

27
P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 3, pp. 122–3.

28
American Heritage
, October 1969, pp. 84–5.

29
Verbatim,
Summer 1991, p. 6.

30
Flexner,
I Hear America Talking,
p. 9.

31
Simpson,
The Politics of American English,
p. 41.

32
American Heritage,
December 1963, p. 27.

33
Journal of American History,
December 1992, pp. 939–40.

34
Quoted in Boorstin,
The Americans: The National Experience,
p. 344.

35
National Geographic,
July 1976, pp. 92–3.

36
Ibid., p. 97.

37
Mee, op. cit., pp. 33–40.

5: By the Dawn’s Early Light: Forging a National Identity

1
Holt,
Phrase and Word Origins,
p. 243.

2
O’Malley,
Keeping Watch,
p. 107.

3
American Heritage,
October/November 1983, p. 104.

4
O’Malley, op. cit., p. 262.

5
P. Smith,
A People’s History of the United States,
vol. 3, p. 757.

6
Flexner,
I Hear America Talking,
p. 124.

7
Morison,
The Oxford History of the American People,
pp. 283–4.

8
Craigie and Hulbert,
A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles,
vol. 2, p. 397.

9
Carver,
A History of English in Its Own Words,
p. 9.

10
New Yorker,
4 September 1989, p. 11.

11
Boorstin,
The Americans: The National Experience,
p. 280.

12
Mencken,
The American Language,
4th edn., p. 236.

13
Ibid., p. 135.

14
P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 4, p. 252.

15
Ibid., vol. 3, p. 47.

16
Commager,
The American Mind,
p. 16.

17
Cmiel,
Democratic Eloquence,
p. 159.

18
Dillard,
American Talk,
p. xiii.

19
Quoted in Mencken, op. cit., p. 29.

20
Ibid., p. 267.

21
Daniels,
Famous Last Words,
p. 43

22
Mencken, op. cit., p. 77.

23
Journal of American History,
December 1992, p. 913.

24
Quoted in Mencken, op. cit., p. 87.

25
Marckwardt,
American English,
p. 70.

26
Journal of American History,
December 1992, p. 928.

27
Quoted in Wortham,
James Russell Lowell’s ‘The Biglow Papers’,
p. xxii.

28
Dillard,
All-American English,
p. 73.

29
Quoted in Boorstin,
The Americans: The Democratic Experience,
p. 293.

30
Cmiel, op. cit., p. 66.

31
Letter to Lincoln, 25 November 1860, quoted in
Harper Book of American Quotations,
p. 121.

32
Wills,
Lincoln at Gettysburg,
p. 90.

33
Cmiel, op. cit., p. 137.

34
Ibid., p. 144.

35
Wills,
Inventing America,
p. xiv.

6: We’re in the Money: The Age of Invention

1
American Heritage,
August 1964, p. 93.

2
Ibid., August/September 1984, p. 20.

3
Brogan,
The Penguin History of the United States of America,
p. 274.

4
Bursk, Clark and Hidy (eds.),
The World of Business,
vol. 2, p. 1251.

5
Commager,
The American Mind,
p. 5.

6
Daniels,
Famous Last Words,
p. 41.

7
Wylie,
The Self-Made Man in America,
p. 10.

8
Boorstin,
The Americans: The National Experience,
p. 115.

9
Flexner,
Listening to America,
pp. 365–6.

10
American Heritage,
December 1989, p. 108.

11
Holt,
Phrase and Word Origins,
p. 5.

12
Flexner, op. cit., p. 364.

13
Root and de Rochement,
Eating in America,
p. 321.

14
Zinn,
A People’s History of the United States,
p. 316.

15
American Heritage,
October 1959, p. 38.

16
Zinn, op. cit., p. 327.

17
Flexner, op. cit., p. 452.

18
Burnam,
The Dictionary of Misinformation,
p. 37.

19
Ibid., p. 60.

20
Keeley,
Making Inventions Pay,
p. 10.

21
Gies and Gies,
The Ingenious Yankees,
pp. 208–10.

22
Barach,
Famous American Trademarks,
p. 75.

23
P. Smith,
A People’s History of the United States,
vol. 4, pp.822–3

24
Carver,
A History of English in Its Own Words,
p. 245.

25
P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 4, pp. 813–17.

26
American Heritage,
September/October 1990, p. 58.

27
Ibid., April 1965, p. 95.

28
Ibid., p. 96.

29
Barnhart (ed.),
The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology,
p. 1121.

30
New York Times,
26 July, 1992 p. E5.

31
The Economist,
13 April 1991, p. 83.

32
American Heritage,
September/October 1990, p. 48.

33
Carver, op. cit., p. 242.

34
Gies and Gies, op. cit., p. 368.

35
Ibid., p. 311.

36
American Heritage,
September/October 1990, pp. 48–59.

37
P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 7, p. 858.

38
Ibid.

39
Zinn, op. cit., p. 248.

40
Collins,
The Story of Kodak,
p. 72.

41
Flatow,
They All Laughed,
p. 31.

42
American Heritage,
November 1979, p. 76.

43
P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 7, p. 858.

44
American Heritage,
August/September 1978, p. 42.

45
Goldberger,
The Skyscraper,
p. 83.

7: Names

1
Boorstin,
The Americans: The National Experience,
p. 305.

2
Flexner,
I Hear America Talking,
p. 312.

3
Krapp,
The English Language in America,
vol. 1, p. 175.

4
Stewart,
Names on the Land,
p. 64.

5
Ibid., p. 33.

6
Ibid., p. 258.

7
Fischer,
Albion’s Seed,
p. 420.

8
Stewart, op. cit., p. 58.

9
Ibid., p. 10.

10
American Demographics,
February 1992, p. 21.

11
Stewart, op. cit., p. 70.

12
Ibid., p. 223.

13
Atlantic Monthly,
November 1992, p. 149.

14
Mencken,
The American Language,
4th edn., p. 649.

15
Dillard,
American Talk,
p. 59.

16
Mencken,
The American Language,
suppl. 2., p. 533.

17
Stewart, op. cit., p. 327.

18
P. Smith,
A People’s History of the United States,
vol. 4, pp. 473–4.

19
Fischer, op. cit., p. 654.

20
Rodgers,
Chagrin ... Whence the Name?,
pp. 1–13.

21
New Republic,
29 July 1991, p.8.

22
Mencken,
The American Language,
4th edn., p. 656.

23
Atlantic Monthly,
September 1990, p. 20.

24
Stewart, op. cit., p. 344.

25
Ibid., pp. 166–7.

26
Ibid., p. 189.

27
Mencken,
The American Language,
4th edn., p. 686.

28
Lacey,
Sir Walter Ralegh,
p. 11.

29
Fischer, op. cit., p. 59.

30
Ibid., p. 94.

31
Ibid.

32
Levin,
Cotton Mather,
p. 1.

33
Mencken,
The American Language,
suppl. 2., pp. 577–8.

34
Forbes,
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In,
p. 5.

35
Mencken,
The American Language,
suppl. 2, pp. 579–81.

36
Ibid., p. 585.

37
Sullivan,
Our Times,
vol. 1, p. 250.

38
Mencken,
The American Language,
suppl. 2, p. 597.

8: ‘Manifest Destiny’: Taming the West

1
Dillon,
Meriwether Lewis,
p. 336.

2
Hart,
The Story of American Roads,
p. 24.

3
Root and de Rochement,
Eating in America,
pp. 110–11.

4
P. Smith,
A People’s History of the United States,
vol. 3, p. 534.

5
Moulton,
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition,
pp. 181–227.

6
Ibid., p. 141.

7
Cutright,
Lewis and Clark,
pp. viii–ix.

8
Brogan,
The Penguin History of the United States of America,
p. 263.

9
Tocqueville,
Journey to America,
p. 185.

10
Boorstin,
The Americans: The National Experience,
pp. 91–3

11
Ibid., p. 93.

12
Boorstin,
Hidden History,
p. 200.

13
Boorstin,
The Americans: The National Experience,
p. 121

14
Gies and Gies,
The Ingenious Yankees,
p. 255.

15
Zinn,
A People’s History of the United States,
p. 149.

16
American Heritage,
February 1962., p. 5.

17
Atlantic Monthly,
November 1992., p. 152.

18
Dillard,
American Talk,
p. xix.

19 Zinn, op. cit., p. 260.

20
P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 3, p. 32.

21
Fischer,
Albion’s Seed,
p. 62.

22
Boorstin,
The Americans: The Democratic Experience,
pp. 22–3.

23
Ibid., p. 24.

24
Weston,
The Real American Cowboy,
p. 136.

25
Dillard, op. cit., p. 114.

26
Weston, op. cit., p. 210.

27
Savage,
Cowboy Life,
p. 6

28
American Heritage,
February 1971, p. 68.

29
Boorstin,
The Americans: The National Experience,
p. 83.

30
Holt,
Phrase and Word Origins,
p. 80.

31
Washington Post,
8 December 1989, p. C5.

32
Boorstin,
Hidden History,
p. 288; and Flexner, I
Hear America Talking,
pp. 111–12.

33
Carver,
A History of English in Its Own Words,
p. 199.

34
Harris,
Good to Eat,
p. 117.

35
The Economist,
10 August 1991, p. 29.

36
Ibid., 8 June 1991, p. 49.

37
Quoted in
Atlanta Journal,
17 March 1991, p. A12.

9: The Melting-Pot: Immigration in America

1
Jones,
American Immigration,
pp. 104–5.

2
Ibid., pp. 114, 290.

3
Ibid., p. 107.

4
Ibid., p. 124.

5
Zinn,
A People’s History of the United States,
p. 317.

6
Boorstin,
The Americans: The Democratic Experience,
p. 249.

7
P. Smith,
A People’s History of the United States,
vol. 6, p. 344.

8
Grosvenor (ed.),
Those Inventive Americans,
p. 146.

9
New Yorker,
9 April 1990, p. 30.

10
American Heritage,
April 1992, p. 58.

11
Ibid., p. 62.

12
P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 6, p. 366.

13
New York Times,
26 August 1990, p. 6E.

14
Zinn, op. cit., p. 341; and Brogan,
The Penguin History of the United States of America,
p. 413.

15
Jones, op. cit., pp. 140–1.

16
Dillard,
American Talk,
p. 30.

17
Mencken,
The American Language,
4th edn., p. 90.

18
Dillard, op. cit., p. 82.

19
Marckwardt,
American English,
p. 57; and Boorstin,
The Americans: The National Experience,
p. 287.

20
Carver,
A History of English in Its Own Words,
p. 242.

21
Fischer,
Albion’s Seed,
p. 431.

22
Jones, op. cit., pp. 270–1.