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Introduction Chapter 1 Notes Introduction 1. For The Economistt perpetuating the Patent Office myth, see April 13, 1991, page 83. 2. See Sass. 3. Book publication in 1906. 4.Swirski (2006). 5. For more on eliterary critiques and nobrow artertainment, see Swirski (2005). 6. Carlin, et al., online. 7. Reagan’s first inaugural, January 20, 1981. 8. For background and analysis, see Hess; also excellent study by Lamb. 9. This and following quote in Conason, 78. 10. BBC News, “Obama: Mitt Romney wrong.” 11. NYC cabbies in Bryson and McKay, 24; on regulated economy, Goldin and Libecap; on welfare for Big Business, Schlosser, 72, 102. 12. For an informed critique from the perspective of a Wall Street trader, see Taleb; for a frontal assault on the neoliberal programs of economic austerity and political repression, see Klein; Collins and Yeskel; documentary Walmart. 13. In Kohut, 28. 14. Orwell, 318. 15. Storey, 5; McCabe, 6; Altschull, 424. 16. Kelly, 19. 17. “From falsehood, anything follows.” 18. Calder; also Swirski (2010), Introduction. 19. In The Economist, February 19, 2011: 79. 20. Prominently Gianos; Giglio. 21. The Economistt (2011). 22. For more examples, see Swirski (2010); Tavakoli-Far. My thanks to Alice Tse for her help with the images. Chapter 1 1. In Powers, 137; parts of this research are based on Swirski (2009). 2. Haynes, 19. 168 NOTES 3. In Moyers, 279. 4. Ruderman, 10. 5. In Krassner, 276–77. 6. Green, 57; bottom of paragraph, Ruderman, 179. 7. In Zagorin, 28; next quote 30; Shakespeare did not spare the Trojan War in Troilus and Cressida. 8. Swirski (2011). 9. Sagan, 2; for examples of contemporary democratic malpractice, Trend. 10. Eliot, 13–14; also Jerome, 158 and 172. 11. Shapiro, 68. 12. Zinn, 354. 13. George W. Bush, online. 14. Thucydides, 178; see also Zagorin, 72. 15. In Stromseth, 872. 16. In Klein, 46. 17. Schlesinger, 141; below, unidentified Bush aide quoted in Suskind, 51. On American empire, see Robin; Mann; Kegley, Lefever; Mirra; Ferguson; David and Grondin; www.americanempireproject.com. 18. Kristol and Kegan, 12; on the limits of benevolent hegemony, Fukuyama, 111– 113; below, US DoD, “Full Spectrum Dominance,” 6. 19. US DoD (2003). 20. Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism. 21. White House, 1970, online; on American involvement in Latin America, see Wiarda; Chomsky. 22. In Stokes, 60; before, fumigation war in Chomsky, 59–60; Senate hearings in Huggins, 4. 23. Much of the dossier was extracted from a single article in the Middle East Review of International Affairs dating back to 1993; for parallel accounts, see Lashmar; Halper and Clarke; film Uncovered: The Whole Truth About Iraqi War. 24. Caldicott, xxi–xxv; Armstrong; other prominent neoconservatives involved at various stages in the plan were Richard Perle, Lewis Libby, Stephen Hadley, William Kristol, and Robert Kagan. 25. Powell, 24. 26. In Hegghammer, 30. 27. Akbarzadeh; Duskin; Racizade. 28. Tonnesson, 333. 29. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; American figures reflect the Pentagon budget plus annual appropriations for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 30. Wilson, 42; for background, Cook. 31.Plato, 135. 32. US DoD, “FY 2003.” 33. Data from Brandes, 264, 265, 275; see also documentary, Why We Fight? 34. Grimmet, online. 35. Briody, 234. NOTES 169 36. Chevron online; Abate; Caldicott, 190–202; Rampton and Stauber. 37. Lintott. 38. In their original Lancett study, Burnham et al. estimated the number to be six hundred thousand; for a legal formulation of a murder case against Bush II, see Bugliosi. Chapter 2 1. For the dimensions of LaHaye’s educational and political empire, see Standaert; the opening parts of this research are based on Swirski (2014). 2. On Kemp campaign, see Dreyfuss; Boston; Huckabee quote in Chafets. 3. Morrison, 2–3. 4. See Sizer; Wilkinson; Weremchuk. 5. On Darby’s textual exegeses, see Frey; Shuck. 6. Co-written with John Castle; Buck Williams may be based on Tom Hammond, bachelor journalist hero of the early twentieth-century premillennialist novels of Sydney Watson. 7. Page 200; all subsequent references are to Left Behindd unless indicated otherwise. 8. Page 267. 9. See, for example, Apollyon, 157, 303, 330. 10. This point is elaborated upon by just about every ecclesiastical commentator on the series, including Price; Bergen; Mathewson; Chapman. 11. On biblical transmissions, corruptions, and restorations, see Metzger; the Gospel of Judas in Kasser, Meyer, and Wurst. 12. “About the Author,” in The Bible’s Influence, 83. 13. O’Leary, 182; Boyer, 141. 14. For plot précis, see Price; Shuck; Gribben (chapter 7) tracks other prophecy fictions after the LBS. 15. Time magazine, July, 1, 2002; see also The Guardian (2003). 16. Page 394; see also 237; The Mark, 196; The Remnant, 275. 17. “Trends in Large U.S. Church Membership from 1960.” 18. Sizer, 23. 19. Bible’s Influence, 33; for background, see Guyatt, esp. 245–277. 20. Page 247; for background, see Bernstein. 21. Kristof, A23. 22. Page xiv; see also The Mark, 142. 23. See also Gold, 40; below, Price, 294. 24. Frey, especially Introduction; in Marks of the Beast, Shucks deliberately sepa- rates the two terms (and favors the first); for behavioral engineering and char- ismatic leadership, see Swirski (2011). 25. Wacker, chapter 13. 26. Gribben; Dykstra. 27. Page 27. 28. Gribben 21; for a broader analysis, see Swirski (2010). 29.Sabato and Simpson, 149. 170 NOTES 30. In Twitchell, 8. 31. See documentary film The Revisionists (2012). 32. Swirski (2010), chapter 5. 33. Data from T.C. Davis, et al., 96–97; and Cole, 16. 34. Data in this paragraph from the American Federation of Teachers, online; Yovanovich, 57; Sanchez online; Kaufman, A19. 35. Yovanovich; Kozol; for the lobbying role of NEA and AFT in these school/busi- ness partnerships, see Boyles, 99–105. 36. 2009 Program for International Student Assessment. 37. Kessler. 38. In Allen, 74; see also Pelikan, 157. 39. See Robinson. 40. With buyers also circulating the books through personal networks; see Frykholm. 41. Paul; Luhrmann re-articulates the coping mechanism thesis on page 320. 42. Kramnick and Moore, 22; Harris in Dershowitz, 117. For the US senators James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) and Don Nickles (R-Oklahoma), see Freddoso. Chapter 3 1. The Mail, 64; Church Times online; The Scotsman online. 2. Page 20; see also Felsenthal. 3. Email, February 2013. 4. Both co-written with Andy Hamilton. 5. In Byrne. 6.Johnson (2008). 7. See documentaries: Meltdown; Overdose: The Next FinancialC risis; Inside Job. 8. In Hall; below, Rumsfeld in Van Susteren. 9. Chaddock; Welna; Herman. 10. Savage; Byrne; Cassata. 11. Page 170; below, same paragraph, see Holtzman; Froomkin. 12. Turley; see also Kain. 13. Farmer; below, Feller; Savage and Landler. On the pattern of the executive branch ignoring the War Powers Resulution, see Fisher. 14. Burkeman; next paragraph, in DeYoung and Jaffe. 15. Brechin and Freeman, 10–12. 16. Goldenberg (2009); see also (2011). 17. In Hirsch; see also Associated Press (2004); same paragraph below, Amos; Associated Press (2006). 18. Hoggan with Littlemore, 186. 19. For PR disasters, see Wagner; Howard; Harnden; Eilperin and Wallsten; Jansen; Bull. 20. Goldenberg (2011). 21. In Kennard; see also Broder and Frosh. NOTES 171 22. The Guardian, 2002; “poodle factor” in Woodward, 107. 23. Bush in The New York Times; below, Harnden. 24. Shipman; below, on Wikileaks, see Moore. 25. Meining, 247; Sale, 386; for background, see Crosby. 26. Sunshine Project; Sample. 27. Swirski (2009). 28. On sociobiological roots of xenophobia, see David Livingstone Smith; Swirski (2011). 29. BBC 2003 “US Congress.” 30. In Schorer, 352. 31. On Roth, see Swirski (2011), chapter 5. 32. Swirski (2010), chapter 3. 33. Byrne; Booth, 46. 34. Email, April 2013. Chapter 4 1. In Gates and Jarrett, 114. 2. In Watkins, 21. 3. Previously the only number-one albums were by party rappers Tone Loc and MC Hammer and white rappers Beastie Boys and Vanilla Ice. 4. Joyce Marie Jackson; Gerald L. Davis; standard accounts of hip-hop’s history are Rose; Keyes; George; Forman; Chang. 5. In Fuentes, 20. 6. Rap’s first double CD; George Clinton, who sang on one track from All Eyes on Me, released a series of albums with presampled riffs from his two bands, invit- ing rappers to remix them. 7. In Perkins, 18. 8. Weingarten. 9. In a rare reversal, Mace, one of the more successful Harlem rappers in the 1990s, semiretired to pursue his calling as a Christian minister. 10. Marsalis, 22. 11. Jones, 189. 12. Philips. 13. Morris, 146. 14. Thomas. 15. Swirski (2005), chapter 2. 16. Nelson, 42. 17. In Gates and Jarrett, 232. 18. In Smith, Zadie. 19. Abu-Jamal. 20. See Pattillo-McCoy. 21. Page 81; on mondegreening and other elements of our cognitive apparatus, see Swirski (2007). 172 NOTES 22. In Greenfeld. 23. In Kot; also YouTube, “USA President Barack Obama Opinion on Hip-Hop & Rap 2008.” 24. McPherson, 182. 25. dead prez (2004). 26. Chang, 454. 27. In Keyes, 32–33. 28. In Mitchell. 29. BBC News, “Rap”; below, Vladov. 30. Biden, “Transcripts.” 31. In Deggans, “Too subtle.” 32. Watkins, 17–18. 33. Rosen and Marks. 34. Dyson, 157. 35. Blair. 36. SkyNews, “Kendrick Lamar.” Chapter 5 1. Poniewozik. 2. Pace Sorkin in Zap2it.com. 3. See also Patterson (2000). 4. Wear, 23. 5. Dowd (2008). 6. In Miller, 90; below Ebert, 5. 7. In Tucker. 8. In Waxman, 55. 9. 18 October, 2002. 10. In McCabe, 35. 11.Sorkin, PBS NewsHour. 12. Sorkin, PBS NewsHour; for a view dissenting from Riley’s, see Anderson. 13. In Ballard. 14. Season 6, Episode 10, “Faith-Based Initiative.” 15. In Ballard; in the last season, NBC rescheduled the show from Wednesday night to ultracompetitive Sunday, with a significant drop in ratings.
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