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Notes

All biographical facts, anecdotes and quotations by or about Reed are from Lodge, McCall or Robinson except where otherwise stated. All quotations from Roosevelt are from the Morison edition of his
Letters
, for which I have given the dates and dispensed with volume and page references.

1
“Out of whose collar”: De Casseres. The following quotations in this paragraph, in order, are from Clark, I, 287; Leupp; McCall, 248; Dunn, I, 165; Foulke, 110; Porter. “The ablest running debater” was said by Rep. John Sharp Williams, Democratic Leader of the House; “the greatest parliamentary leader” by Lodge; “far and away the most brilliant” by Clark, II, 10.

2
Henry Adams on his brother John: Sept. 1, 1894,
Letters
, II, 55.

3
Bryce, “apathy …”: III, 326–28.

4
Lewis Morris, “Damn the consequences”: “Biographical Sketches of the Four Signers from New York,”
Americana
, Aug., 1914, 627.

5
“A human frigate” and “How narrow”: Day.

6
“Calculated … to obstruct legislation”: Rep. Frye of Maine.

7
“All the wisdom”: Clark, I, 286.

8
“Voting for him on the sly”: Porter.

9
Palmerston’s popularity: Peck, 276.

10
Choate anecdote: Barry, 142.

11
On Balzac: Porter.

12
“We asked the Tom Reeds”: Lodge,
Corres
., I, 77, 120.

13
“Theodore, if there is one thing more than another”: q. George Stimpson,
A Book About American Politics
, New York, 1952, 342.

14
“Theodore will never be President”: Leupp.

15
“Ambitious as Lucifer”: Cullom, 243.

16
“It becomes a tyranny”: Dunn, I, 35.

17
“The largest human face”: Clark, I, 277–78.

18
ff. “The Chair directs”: All remarks by the Speaker and Representatives in the account of the Quorum fight are from the
Congressional Record
, 51st Congress, First Session.

19
ff. “Pandemonium broke loose”: Dunn, I, 27. Reporters and other eyewitnesses quoted on the Quorum fight are Dunn, I, 24–32; Peck, 200–202; Fuller, 219–21. The New York
Times
gave the story four columns on page 1 on both Jan. 30 and 31.

20
Reed’s Rules: Fuller, 228.

21
Roosevelt on Reed’s reform;
Forum
, Dec., 1895.

22
“Biting a green persimmon”: Mount (
see
Chap. 1), 192. Sargent had difficulty with the portrait and destroyed his first version. “His exterior somehow does not correspond with his spirit. What is a painter to do?… I could have made a better picture with a less remarkable man. He has been delightful.” Reed claimed that he liked it although “I am willing to admit that the picture is not so good-looking as the original.” The portrait now hangs in the Speaker’s Lobby in the Capitol. As it seems to the author to convey little of Reed’s personality, it is not reproduced here.

23
“They might do worse”: Brownson.

24
“White House Iceberg”: Platt, 215.

25
“The House has more sense”: Alexander, 27.

26
“Look outward”: “The United States Looking Outward,” Dec., 1890.

27
“A voice … of our external interests”: Puleston, 133. All subsequent biographical facts, anecdotes and quotations by or about Mahan are from Puleston unless otherwise stated.

28
“Don’t tell Grover”: Clark, I, 281–82.

29
Roosevelt read it “straight through”: May 12, 1890,
Letters
, I, 221.

30
Origin of “Sea Power”: Mahan,
From Sail to Steam
, 276–77.

31
Kaiser on Mahan: q. Taylor, 131.

32
Secretary White: Fuller, 211.

33
Mahan on the Jews:
From Sail to Steam.

34
Lodge in “desperate earnest”: q. Garraty, 52.

35
Comments of Senators Morgan, Frye and Cullom: Millis, 29.

36
Union League Club,
NYT
, Dec. 18, 1895.

37
“Admirals? Never!”: q. Taylor, 12.

38
“A towering influence”: q. Godkin, I, 221.

39
Lowell on the
Nation:
Godkin, I, 251; Bryce on the
Evening Post: ibid.
, 232; Governor Hill: Villard, 123.

40
Godkin on the United States in 1895:
Life and Letters
, II, 187, 202.

41
William James on “fighting spirit”: to Frederic Myers, Jan. 1, 1896, Perry, 244.

42
Norton, “shout of brutal applause”:
NYT
, Dec. 30, 1895.

43
“Supremely urbane”: Daniel Gregory Mason, “At Home in the Nineties,”
New England Quarterly Review
, Mar., 1936, 64.

44
Students on Norton: William D. Orcutt,
Celebrities on Parade
, 41; Josephine Preston Peabody,
Diary and Letters
, 73.

45
Norton to Godkin and to English friend: q. Vanderbilt, 211; to Leslie Stephen, Jan. 8, 1896,
Letters
, II, 236.

46
Henry Adams: “dead water of the
fin de siècle”
is from
The Education
, 331. Other quotations in this paragraph are from the
Letters
, Vol. II, in order, as follows: Sept. 9, 1894, 55; Aug. 3, 1896, 114; Apr. 1, 1896, 103; Apr. 25, 1895, 68; July 31, 1896, 111; Feb. 17, 1896, 99; Sept. 25, 1895, 88.

47
Norton, “How interesting our times”: to S. G. Ward, Apr. 26, 1896,
Letters
, II, 244.

48
“The Czar commands you”: Fuller, 238.

49
“Tranquil greatness”: Powers.

50
Reading Richard Burton: Stealey, 413.

51
“A policy no Republican”: Knight.

52
Roosevelt on Reed campaign: Oct. 18, 1895; Dec. 27, 1895; Jan. 26, 1896.

53
Reed’s campaign: Robinson, 326–34; Griffin, 344; Platt, 313.