America Aflame

by David Goldfield

  57. John R. Lynch, The Facts of Reconstruction (New York: Neale Publishing, 1913), 110; W. E. B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880, Introduction by David Levering Lewis (New York: Free Press, 1998; first published in 1935); “A Colored Orator,” Harper’s, September 13, 1873, 795.

  58. Henry Cabot Lodge, Early Memories (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913), 128.

  59. All quotes in Silber, Romance of Reunion, 78, 87.

  60. Robert Penn Warren, The Legacy of the Civil War (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998; first published in 1961), 55; remaining quotes in Paul M. Gaston, The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking (New York: Knopf, 1970), 173.

  61. Ellen Glasgow, The Woman Within (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004; first published in 1954), 97; C. Vann Woodward and Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, eds., The Private Mary Chesnut: The Unpublished Civil War Diaries (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), xxv.

  62. Walt Whitman, “Song of the Exposition,” Leaves of Grass, ed. Harold W. Blodgett and Sculley Bradley (New York: New York University Press, 1965), 203, 204.

  63. Howells, “Centennial,” 96; William Dean Howells, “Characteristics of the International Fair,” Atlantic Monthly 38 (September 1876): 359.

  64. See Charles R. Morris, The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy (New York: Holt), 120.

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