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“minimum wage”
Meghan, “The Real History Behind the Minimum Wage (HINT: It Involves Progressives and Eugenics),”
GlennBeck.com
, February 14, 2014,
http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/02/14/the-real-history-behind-the-minimum-wage-hint-it-involves-progressives-and-eugenics/
.

“ ‘bring forth more of their kind' ”
Royal Meeker, review of
Cours d'Economie
Politique, by Georges Blanchard,
Political Science Quarterly
25, no. 3, September 1910, p. 544. Qtd. in Jonah Goldberg,
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change
(New York: Doubleday, 2007), p. 264. See also: Meghan, “The Real History Behind the Minimum Wage (HINT: It Involves Progressives and Eugenics),”
GlennBeck.com
, February 14, 2014,
http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/02/14/the-real-history-behind-the-minimum-wage-hint-it-involves-progressives-and-eugenics/
.

“those students never challenged him”
Robert M. Saunders,
In Search of Woodrow Wilson: Beliefs and Behavior
(West Port, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998), p. 16.

“ ‘the intellectual equal of men' ”
Robert M. Saunders,
In Search of Woodrow Wilson: Beliefs and Behavior
(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998), p. 16.

“ ‘insulting, unfeminine, and unpatriotic' ”
“Woodrow Wilson—A Portrait” Women's Suffrage, PBS, accessed May 25, 2016,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_suffrage.html
.

“were force-fed”
“President Woodrow Wilson Picketed by Women Suffragists,”
This Day in History
(blog),
History.com
, August 28, 2009,
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-woodrow-wilson-picketed-by-women-suffragists
.

“an ‘unconstitutional governor' ”
Ronald J. Pestritto,
Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005), p. 170.

“ ‘seditious' materials through the U.S. Mail”
T. Jefferson, “Glenn Beck: Propaganda in America,”
GlennBeck.com
, May 28 2010,
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/41221/
.

“the Boy Spies of America”
T. Jefferson, “Glenn Beck: Propaganda in America,”
GlennBeck.com
, May 28 2010,
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/41221/
.

“threat to the U.S republic”
T. Jefferson, “Glenn Beck: Propaganda in America,”
GlennBeck.com
, May 28 2010,
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/41221/
.

“ ‘He kept us out of war' ”
Herbert Eaton,
Presidential Timber: A History of Nominating Conventions, 1868–1960
(New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1964), p. 258.

“ ‘in armed neutrality' ”
Woodrow Wilson, “Second Inaugural Address,” (speech, Washington, D.C., March 5, 1917)
Bartleby.com
,
http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres45.html
.

“More than three hundred thousand were killed or injured”
“WWI Casualty and Death Tables,” PBS, accessed May 25, 2016,
https://www.pbs.org/greatwar/resources/casdeath_pop.html
.

“ ‘I could not bear him' ”
Thomas Fleming,
The Illusion of Victory: Americans in World War I
(New York: Basic Books, 2004), p. 324.

“ ‘hanged on gibbets as high as heaven' ”
“Sherman Makes ‘Em Laugh,”
The Indianapolis News,
March 4, 1919. p. 26.,
https://newspapers.library.in.gov/cgi-bin/indiana?a=d&d=INN19190304-01.1.26

“ ‘separated from his human kind forever' ”
The New York Times Current History: The European War
(New York: The New York Times Company, 1919), p. 88.

“the sordid chauvinism, elitism, and bigotry”
Patrick Howley, “Flashback: Hillary Clinton Receives Woodrow Wilson Award,” Breitbart, November 20, 2015,
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/20/flashback-hillary-clinton-receives-woodrow-wilson-award/
.

“banned ‘the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors' ”
U.S. Const. amend. XVIII (repealed 1933),
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_amendments_11-27.html#18
.

CHAPTER 3: SECOND WAVE: FDR, WARTIME PROGRESSIVE

“our Commander-in-Chief, Woodrow Wilson”
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
.

“his rightful office”
Jonathan Alter,
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred-Day Triumph of Hope
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007).

“any new problem of democracy”
Frank Freidel,
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny
(New York: Back Bay Books, 1991).

“there is no vision the people perish”
Frank Freidel,
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny
(New York: Back Bay Books, 1991).

“it required action”
Frank Freidel,
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny
(New York: Back Bay Books, 1991).

“tilted in his favor”
Frank Freidel,
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny
(New York: Back Bay Books, 1991).

“invaded by a foreign foe”
Frank Freidel,
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny
(New York: Back Bay Books, 1991).


the crowd's raucous reaction a bit terrifying”
Michael Waldman,
My Fellow Americans
(Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks Mediafusion, 2010), p. 96.

“to assume dictatorial power”
Michael Waldman,
My Fellow Americans
(Naperville, IL Sourcebooks Mediafusion, 2010), p. 96.

“ ‘Never let a serious crisis go to waste' ”
“Rahm Emanuel ‘Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste,' ” YouTube video, 0.12, from an appearance on
The Wall Street Journal
's 2008 Shaping the New Agenda, posted by Ron Grant, Oct 30, 2012,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb-YuhFWCr4
.

“ ‘changing and growing social order' ”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Commonwealth Club Address,” (speech, San Francisco,
September 23, 1932), The Heritage Foundation,
http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/fdrs-commonwealth-club-address
.

“ ‘side by side with economic plutocracy' ”
David M. Kennedy,
The American People in the Great Depression: Freedom from Fear, Part One
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

“who's who of other progressives”
Raymond Moley,
After Seven Years
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 2006), p. 14.

“ ‘the greatest number of our citizens' ”
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
.

“Before the 1930s,
liberalism
hadn't been a term”
Charles R. Kesler,
I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism
(New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. 111.

“a new word for Republicans:
conservatives

Charles R. Kesler,
I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism
(New York: Broadside Books, 2012).


Tory
, vaguely monarchical and fascist”
Charles R. Kesler,
I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism
(New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. 113.

“ ‘be the theory of the Democratic Party' ”
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
.

“ ‘the individual and freedom change with time' ”
John Dewey,
The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 11, 1925–1953
, ed. Jo Ann Boydston (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2008), pp. 291–92.

“would require enlightened experimentation”
John Dewey, “The Future of Liberalism,” (speech to the America Philosophical Association, Chicago, December 28, 1934), The Heritage Foundation,
http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/john-dewey-on-liberalisms-future
.

“ ‘persistent experimentation' ”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Address at Oglethorpe University,” (speech, Brookhaven, GA, May 22, 1932), The American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=88410
.

“ ‘the Age of the Professors' ”
John T. Flynn,
The Roosevelt Myth
, (Greenwich, CT: The Devin-Adair Publishing Company, 1948), p. 34,
https://mises.org/library/roosevelt-myth
.

“risen to a peak of more than twenty-eight percent”
Robert P. Murphy,
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2009), p. 42.

“the lowest it would ever get during the Great Depression”
Andrew Glass, “Dow Jones falls to its lowest point, July 8, 1932,”
Politico
, July 8, 2013,
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/this-day-in-politics-july-8-1932-093787
.

“the economy healed on its own”
Benjamin Weingarten, “The story of America's last ‘governmentally unmedicated' depression that they never taught you in school,” TheBlaze, November 11, 2014,
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/11/11/the-story-of-americas-last-governmentally-unmedicated-depression-that-they-never-taught-you-in-school/
.

“ ‘enlightened administration . . . has come' ”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Commonwealth Club Address,” (speech, San Francisco, September 23, 1932), The Heritage Foundation,
http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/fdrs-commonwealth-club-address
.

“role of repressive central government”
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Commonwealth Club Address,” (speech, San Francisco, September 23, 1932), The Heritage Foundation,
http://www.heritage.org/initiatives/first-principles/primary-sources/fdrs-commonwealth-club-address
.

“under seven hundred competition-killing industrial codes”
Jim Powell,
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
(New York: Crown, 2003), p. 77.

“fixed wages and controlled prices”
Jim Powell, “Government Jobs Don't Cure Depression,”
National Review
, March 23, 2009,
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/227121/government-jobs-dont-cure-depression-jim-powell
.

“NRA released 2,998 administrative orders”
Jim Powell,
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
(New York: Crown, 2003), pp. 77, 162.

“ ‘is the Blue Eagle' ”
John T. Flynn,
The Roosevelt Myth
, (Greenwich, CT: The Devin-Adair Publishing Company, 1948), p. 43,
https://mises.org/library/roosevelt-myth
.

“more than two thousand strikes during FDR's first term”
John T. Flynn,
The Roosevelt Myth
, (Greenwich, CT: The Devin-Adair Publishing Company, 1948), p. 86,
https://mises.org/library/roosevelt-myth
.

“dared so much as sew pants after dark”
John T. Flynn,
The Roosevelt Myth
, (Greenwich, CT: The Devin-Adair Publishing Company, 1948), p. 45,
https://mises.org/library/roosevelt-myth
.

“five hundred thousand black workers lost their jobs”
Jim Powell,
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
(New York: Crown, 2003), pp. 117–19.

“took their case to the Supreme Court”
David Leonhardt, “No Free Lunch,” review of
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
, by Amity Shlaes,
The New York Times Book Review
, August 26, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/books/review/Leonhardt-t.html?_r=1
.

“the president could not legislate from the Oval Office”
Jim Powell,
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression
(New York: Crown, 2003), p. 164.

“burying jars of money”
Paul Krugman, “Time for Bottles in Coal Mines,”
The New York Times
, April 14, 2009,
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/time-for-bottles-in-coal-mines/?_r=0
.

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