“ ‘action against a Hitler-backed fifth column’ ” Ron Capshaw, “Henry Wallace: Unsung Hero of the Left,” National Review, April 4, 2015, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/416450/henry-wallace-unsung-hero-left-ron-capshaw.
“he wrote in the Times on November 15, 1931” Arnold Beichman, “Pulitzer-Winning Lies,” The Weekly Standard, June 12, 2003, http://www.weeklystandard.com/pulitzer-winning-lies/article/4040.
“ ‘entire matter is exaggerated’ ” Arnold Beichman, “Pulitzer-Winning Lies,” The Weekly Standard, June 12, 2003, http://www.weeklystandard.com/pulitzer-winning-lies/article/4040.
“ ‘dying at a rate of 25,000 a day’ ” Arnold Beichman, “Pulitzer-Winning Lies,” The Weekly Standard, June 12, 2003, http://www.weeklystandard.com/pulitzer-winning-lies/article/4040.
“ ‘I have met in fifty years of journalism’ ” Arnold Beichman, “Pulitzer-Winning Lies,” The Weekly Standard, June 12, 2003, http://www.weeklystandard.com/pulitzer-winning-lies/article/4040.
“ ‘to which they had dedicated their lives’ ” Arnold Beichman, “Pulitzer-Winning Lies,” The Weekly Standard, June 12, 2003, http://www.weeklystandard.com/pulitzer-winning-lies/article/4040.
“let the lies stand” “New York Times Statement About 1932 Pulitzer Prize Awarded to Walter Duranty,” press release, The New York Times, accessed June 1, 2016, http://www.nytco.com/new-york-times-statement-about-1932-pulitzer-prize-awarded-to-walter-duranty/.
PART III: FEAR THE FUTURE
“Planned Parenthood” Betsy Woodruff, “Donald Trump Is Planned Parenthood’s Favorite Republican,” The Daily Beast, August 11, 2015, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/08/11/donald-trump-is-planned-parenthood-s-favorite-republican.html.
“contributor to the Clintons” Nick Gass, “Trump has Spent Years Courting Hillary and Other Dems,” Politico, June 16, 2015, http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/donald-trump-donations-democrats-hillary-clinton-119071.
“even Walter Mondale” James V. Grimaldi, “Records Show Scant Reagan-Trump Ties,” The Wall Street Journal, September 15, 2015, http://www.wsj.com/articles/records-show-scant-reagan-trump-ties-1442359829.
“including MIT” Richard Vangermeersch, “The Marking of Stuart Chase as a ‘Red Accountant’—An Epic (1917–1921)” Special Collections Publications, Paper 8, p. 4, http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=sc_pubs.
“Intercollegiate Socialist Society (ISS)” Zygmund Dobbs, Keynes at Harvard: Economic Deception as a Political Credo (New York: Probe Research, Inc., 1969), chap. 3, http://www.keynesatharvard.org/book/KeynesatHarvard-ch03.html.
“ ‘influence and guidance’ of Fabian socialists” Zygmund Dobbs, Keynes at Harvard: Economic Deception as a Political Credo (New York: Probe Research, Inc., 1969), chap. 3, http://www.keynesatharvard.org/book/KeynesatHarvard-ch03.html.
“to do something about it” William Alan Hodson and John M. Carfora, “Stuart Chase: Brief life of a public thinker: 1888–1985,” Harvard Magazine, September–October 2004, http://harvardmagazine.com/2004/09/stuart-chase-html.
“ ‘knows where they are going’ ” William Alan Hodson and John M. Carfora, “Stuart Chase: Brief life of a public thinker: 1888–1985,” Harvard Magazine, September–October 2004, http://harvardmagazine.com/2004/09/stuart-chase-html.
“a thin veneer for eugenics” Albert Sonnichsen, James Peter Warbasse et al., Consumer’s Cooperation: Organ of the Consumers’ Cooperative Movement in the U.S.A., (Charleston, SC: Nabu Press, 2011), vol. 3.
“with the Federal Trade Commission” Richard Vangermeersch, “The Marking of Stuart Chase as a ‘Red Accountant’—An Epic (1917–1921)” Special Collections Publications, Paper 8, p. 79, http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=sc_pubs.
“ ‘Red accountant’ ” William Alan Hodson and John M. Carfora, “Stuart Chase: Brief life of a public thinker: 1888–1985,” Harvard Magazine, September–October 2004, http://harvardmagazine.com/2004/09/stuart-chase-html.
“ ‘inflated’ government data” Richard Vangermeersch, “The Marking of Stuart Chase as a ‘Red Accountant’—An Epic (1917–1921)” Special Collections Publications, Paper 8, p. 79, http://digitalcommons.uri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=sc_pubs.
“wrote books on economics” Gary McCulloch and David Cook, eds., The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Education (New York: Routledge, 2008), p. 594.
“ ‘First American Trade Union Delegation’ ” Stuart Chase, Robert Dunn, and Rex Tugwell, eds. Soviet Russia in the second decade: a joint survey by the technical staff of the first American Trade Union Delegation (New York: John Day, 1928)
“ ‘bowled over’ ” Nick Gillespe, “Remembering ‘The Forgotten Man,’ ” Reason.com, December 18, 2007, http://reason.com/archives/2007/12/18/remembering-the-forgotten-man/print.
“ ‘the world of Stalin’ ” Nick Gillespe, “Remembering ‘The Forgotten Man,’ ” Reason.com, December 18, 2007, http://reason.com/archives/2007/12/18/remembering-the-forgotten-man/print.
“ ‘influenced by Moscow’ ” Nick Gillespe, “Remembering ‘The Forgotten Man,’ ” Reason.com, December 18, 2007, http://reason.com/archives/2007/12/18/remembering-the-forgotten-man/print.
“increased federal spending” William Alan Hodson and John M. Carfora, “Stuart Chase: Brief life of a public thinker: 1888–1985,” Harvard Magazine, September–October 2004, http://harvardmagazine.com/2004/09/stuart-chase-html.
“ ‘remaking a world’ ” Nick Gillespe, “Remembering ‘The Forgotten Man,’ ” Reason.com, December 18, 2007, http://reason.com/archives/2007/12/18/remembering-the-forgotten-man/print.
“ ‘first-class temperament’ ” Charles Krauthammer, “Hail Mary vs. Cool Barry,” The Washington Post, October 3, 2008, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203043.html.
“ ‘a new deal for the American people’ ” Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago,” (speech, Chicago, July 2, 1932), The American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=75174.
“ ‘foremost public analysts and interpreters’ ” Nancy Capace, Encyclopedia of New Hampshire (Santa Barbara: Somerset Publishers, Inc., 2000), p. 183.
“ ‘the inevitability of a planned economy’ ” Ronald Sullivan, “Stuart Chase, 97; Coined Phrase ‘A New DEA,’ ” The New York Times, November 17, 1985, http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/17/nyregion/stuart-chase-97-coined-phrase-a-new-dea.html.
“ ‘teaching the American people more about economics’ ” William Alan Hodson and John M. Carfora, “Stuart Chase: Brief life of a public thinker: 1888–1985,” Harvard Magazine, September–October 2004, http://harvardmagazine.com/2004/09/stuart-chase-html.
“ ‘exploratory reports on postwar problems’ ” Stuart Chase, The Road We Are Traveling 1914–1942: Guide Lines to America as Reported to The Twentieth Century Fund (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, Inc.,1942), https://ia802600.us.archive.org/29/items/TheRoadWeAreTraveling/TheRoadWeAreTraveling.pdf.
“ ‘must be to win’ ” Stuart Chase, The Road We Are Traveling 1914–1942: Guide Lines to America as Reported to The Twentieth Century Fund (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, Inc.,1942), p. 1, https://ia802600.us.archive.org/29/items/TheRoadWeAreTraveling/TheRoadWeAreTraveling.pdf.
“ ‘centralized, collective controls has continued’ ” Stuart Chase, The Road We Are Traveling 1914–1942: Guide Lines to America as Reported to The Twentieth Century Fund (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, Inc.,1942), p. 95, https://ia802600.us.archive.org/29/items/TheRoadWeAreTraveling/TheRoadWeAreTraveling.pdf.
“ ‘lease-lending around the globe’ ” Stuart Chase, The Road We Are Traveling 1914–1942: Guide Lines to America as Reported to The Twentieth Century Fund (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, Inc., 19
42), p. 99, https://ia802600.us.archive.org/29/items/TheRoadWeAreTraveling/TheRoadWeAreTraveling.pdf.
“didn’t seem to fit the bill” Stuart Chase, The Road We Are Traveling 1914–1942: Guide Lines to America as Reported to The Twentieth Century Fund (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, Inc.,1942), p. 97, https://ia802600.us.archive.org/29/items/TheRoadWeAreTraveling/TheRoadWeAreTraveling.pdf.
“ ‘all over the world’ ” Stuart Chase, The Road We Are Traveling 1914–1942: Guide Lines to America as Reported to The Twentieth Century Fund (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, Inc.,1942), p. 95, https://ia802600.us.archive.org/29/items/TheRoadWeAreTraveling/TheRoadWeAreTraveling.pdf.
“ ‘state control of communications and propaganda’ ” Stuart Chase, The Road We Are Traveling 1914–1942: Guide Lines to America as Reported to The Twentieth Century Fund (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, Inc., 1942), pp. 95–96, https://ia802600.us.archive.org/29/items/TheRoadWeAreTraveling/TheRoadWeAreTraveling.pdf.
“ ‘doctrines of Adam Smith’ ” Stuart Chase, The Road We Are Traveling 1914–1942: Guide Lines to America as Reported to The Twentieth Century Fund (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, Inc.,1942), p. 97, https://ia802600.us.archive.org/29/items/TheRoadWeAreTraveling/TheRoadWeAreTraveling.pdf.
“ ‘applicable in some degree to the United States’ ” Stuart Chase, The Road We Are Traveling 1914–1942: Guide Lines to America as Reported to The Twentieth Century Fund (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund, Inc.,1942), p. 97, https://ia802600.us.archive.org/29/items/TheRoadWeAreTraveling/TheRoadWeAreTraveling.pdf.
“ ‘underwriting of social security’ ” Ronald Sullivan, “Stuart Chase, 97; Coined Phrase ‘A New DEA,’ ” The New York Times, November 17, 1985, http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/17/nyregion/stuart-chase-97-coined-phrase-a-new-dea.html.
“a federal deficit of more than $500 billion” “Current U.S. Federal Budget Deficit,” About.com, February 23, 2016, http://useconomy.about.com/od/fiscalpolicy/p/deficit.htm.
“ ‘U.S. Freedom of Information Act’ ” Ted Bridis, “The Obama Administration Keeps Getting Less Transparent,” Business Insider, March 18, 2015, http://www.businessinsider.com/government-transparency-is-the-worst-its-been-since-obama-took-office-2015-3.
“ ‘since the Nixon administration’ ” Rebecca Kaplan, “Report: Obama Administration Most Aggressive Toward Press Since Nixon,” CBSNews.com, October 10, 2013, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-obama-administration-most-aggressive-toward-press-since-nixon/.
“dump 30 million pounds of the fruit onto the ground” Ron French, “Cherry Wars: The Crazy Economics of Michigan’s Favorite Pitted Fruit,” MLive.com, May 22, 2015, http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2014/07/cherry_wars_the_crazy_economic.html.
“visited the White House 104 times” Michelle Ye Hee Lee, “Giuliani’s Claim the White House Invited Al Sharpton up to 85 Times,” The Washington Post, December 30, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2014/12/30/giulianis-claim-the-white-house-invited-al-sharpton-up-to-85-times/.
“ ‘response, and recovery’” Corporation for National Community Service, “FEMA Corps: About FEMA Corps,” NationalService.gov, accessed May 30, 2016, http://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/americorps/fema-corps.
“conjured up some unpleasant associations” U.S. Department of Homeland Security, “Welcome to the FEMA Corps Inaugural Class,” dhs.gov, September 12, 2012, https://www.dhs.gov/blog/2012/09/14/welcome-fema-corps-inaugural-class.
“ ‘seek better understanding’ ” Ronald Sullivan, “Stuart Chase, 97; Coined Phrase ‘A New DEA,’ ” The New York Times, November 17, 1985, http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/17/nyregion/stuart-chase-97-coined-phrase-a-new-dea.html.
“ ‘intervention in the economy’ ” Ronald Sullivan, “Stuart Chase, 97; Coined Phrase ‘A New DEA,’ ” The New York Times, November 17, 1985, http://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/17/nyregion/stuart-chase-97-coined-phrase-a-new-dea.html.
“ ‘haphazard reactions to modern liberalism’s excesses’ ” Charles Kesler, I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism (New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. xxiii.
EPILOGUE: DEFEATING THE FEAR FACTORY
“highest per-capita income” CQ Researcher editors, Urban Issues (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2013), p. 109.
“ ‘so long as it is black’ ” Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther, My Life and Work (Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, 1922), p. 72.
“bureaucrats who operated by fiat” Arthur Herman, Freedom’s Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in WWII (New York: Random House, 2012), p. 163.
“Britain, and the Soviet Union combined” Arthur Herman, “Bill Knudsen’s Business Skills Saved the U.S. at the Dawn of World War II,” The Daily Beast, June 16, 2012, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/16/bill-knudsen-s-business-skills-saved-the-u-s-at-the-dawn-of-world-war-ii.html.
“unemployment was one percent” Arthur Herman, “Bill Knudsen’s Business Skills Saved the U.S. at the Dawn of World War II,” The Daily Beast, June 16, 2012, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/16/bill-knudsen-s-business-skills-saved-the-u-s-at-the-dawn-of-world-war-ii.html.
“called Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story” David Maraniss, Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015).
“Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore, and New Orleans” Mark Reutter, “Baltimore Surges Past Detroit in Number of Homicides in 2015,” Baltimore Brew, August 7, 2015, https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2015/08/07/baltimore-surges-past-detroit-in-number-of-homicides-in-2015/.
“remained twice the national average” Keith A. Owens, “Detroit Unemployment Remains More Than Twice Level of State, Nation,” Michigan Chronicle, July 28, 2015, http://michronicleonline.com/2015/07/28/detroit-unemployment-remains-more-than-twice-level-of-state-nation/.
“ ‘employees who are ready to work and skilled’ ” Keith A. Owens, “Detroit Unemployment Remains More Than Twice Level of State, Nation,” Michigan Chronicle, July 28, 2015, http://michronicleonline.com/2015/07/28/detroit-unemployment-remains-more-than-twice-level-of-state-nation/.
“who are illiterate hold high school degrees” “Detroit’s ‘Shocking’ 47 Percent Illiteracy Rate,” The Week, May 6, 2011, http://theweek.com/articles/484910/detroits-shocking-47-percent-illiteracy-rate.“Nearly Half of Detroit’s Adults Are Functionally Illiterate, Report Finds,” Huffington Post, May 7, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/07/detroit-illiteracy-nearly-half-education_n_858307.html.
“and built public housing” Sanford Ikeda, “FDR’s Friend in New York,” review of City of Ambition, by Mason B. Williams, Reason.com, June 11, 2013, http://reason.com/archives/2013/06/11/fdrs-friend-in-new-york.
“ ‘tax and tax, and elect and elect’ ” Michael Hiltzik, The New Deal: A Modern History (New York: Free Press, 2011) p. 438.
“ ‘center of the radical universe in those days’ ” Coleman Young and Lonnie Wheeler, Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young (New York: Viking, 1994), p. 128.
“ ‘too bad they didn’t kill that [expletive]’ ” David M. Lewis Colman, Race Against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008), p. 37.
“Communist-dominated Progressive Party” Wilbur C. Rich, Colman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), p. 67.
“ran for state senator as a progressive” Coleman Young and Lonnie Wheeler, Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young (New York: Viking, 1994), 37.
“officially labeled a Communist front” Martin Halpern, Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2003), p. 70. Wilbur C. Rich, Colman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), p. 71.
“he took the Fifth Amendment” Coleman Young and Lonnie Wh
eeler, Hard Stuff: The Autobiography of Mayor Coleman Young (New York: Viking, 1994), pp. 120–21. See also: Martin Halpern, Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change in the Twentieth Century (Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2003), p. 70.
“elected as a state senator” Wilbur C. Rich, Colman Young and Detroit Politics: From Social Activist to Power Broker (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), p. 85.
“ ‘have sprung up in their place’ ” Encyclopedia of Detroit Online, “Cavanagh, Jerome,” Detroit Historical Society, Accessed May 30, 2016, http://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/cavanagh-jerome.
“ignited by a police raid on an African-American nightclub” “July 23 1967: The 12th Street Riot,” This Day in History (blog), History.com, July 23, 2010, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-12th-street-riot.
“ ‘left the city a fiscal and social wreck’ ” James Q. Wilson, “The Closing of the American City,” review of Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD, by Lou Cannon, and Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration, by Tamar Jacoby, New Republic, May 11, 1998, https://newrepublic.com/article/101313/la-riots-1992-racism-rodney-king-trial.
“ ‘the sort of polarization that other politicians dread’ ” Isabel Wilkerson, “The Nation: After Four Terms, Us Versus Them Still Plays in Detroit,” The New York Times, September 17, 1989, http://www.nytimes.com/1989/09/17/weekinreview/the-nation-after-four-terms-us-versus-them-still-plays-in-detroit.html.
“ ‘Renaissance Center’ in Detroit’s fading downtown” Robin Meredith, “GM Buys a Landmark of Detroit for Its Home,” The New York Times, May 17, 1996, http://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/17/us/gm-buys-a-landmark-of-detroit-for-its-home.html.
“ten thousand of the city’s ninety thousand abandoned homes” “Nearly Half of Detroit’s Adults Are Functionally Illiterate, Report Finds,” Huffington Post, May 7, 2011, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/07/detroit-illiteracy-nearly-half-education_n_858307.html.