APPRENTICESHIP
The Prevalence of Wonders
1. The essay appears in Bell's Art (London: Chatto & Windus, 1914).
2. T. S. Eliot, “Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar” (1920).
RACE AND SLAVERY
A Southern Conscience
1. Whitney Balliett, “Books: Finis,” New Yorker, March 30, 1963, pp. 174–77.
Overcome
1. The essay by Baldwin is “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” published in The New Yorker for November 17, 1962; collected as “Down at the Cross” in Baldwin's The Fire Next Time.
2. Ulrich B. Phillips, Life and Labor in the Old South (1929); Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944).
Our Common History
1. Quoted in Raymond A. Sokolov, “Into the Mind of Nat Turner,” Newsweek, October 16, 1967, p. 69.
In the Southern Camp
1. Kenneth S. Lynn, “The Masterpiece That Became a Hoax,” New York Times Book Review, April 26, 1981, p. 9.
Nat Turner Revisited
1. C. Vann Woodward, “Confessions of a Rebel: 1831,” New Republic, October 7, 1967, pp. 25–28.
2. American Quarterly 23 (October 1971), 486–518.
3. New York Times Book Review, June 3, 1984, sec. 7, p. 47.
4. Martin Duberman, “Historical Fictions, New York Times Book Review, August 11, 1968, pp. 1, 26–27. Eliot Fremont-Smith, “Nat Turner I: The Controversy,” and “Nat Turner II: What Myth Will Serve?” New York Times, August 1 and 2, 1968, pp. 29, 31.
5. Genovese, “The Nat Turner Case,” New York Review of Books, September 12, 1968, pp. 34–37.
6. Ascension Day, play by Michael Henry Brown, reviewed by Mel Gussow in New York Times, March 4, 1992, p. C19.
7. Baldwin, from “Here Be Dragons” (1985), in The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948–1985 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985), p. 690.
FINAL SOLUTIONS
Auschwitz
1. The symposium was held on June 3–6, 1974, with much coverage in newspapers and other media. The proceedings, edited by Eva Fleischner, were later published by Ktav Publishing House as Auschwitz: Beginning of a New Era? Reflections on the Holocaust (1977).
Auschwitz and Hiroshima
1. Judgment at the Smithsonian, ed. Philip Nobile, afterword by Barton J. Bernstein (New York: Marlowe, n.d.).
2. “Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped,” ABC broadcast, July 27, 1995.
3. McGeorge Bundy, Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years (New York: Random House, 1988), p. 64.
4. Buruma's essay is collected in The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West (New York: Random House, 2000).
5. Gavan Daws, Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific (New York: William Morrow, 1994).
A Wheel of Evil Come Full Circle
1. “Trivializing Memory,” in Elie Wiesel, From the Kingdom of Memony: Reminiscences (New York: Summit, 1990), 166.
DISORDERS OF THE MIND
Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died
1. Stewart Kellerman, “Shadow of Auschwitz on Primo Levi's Life,” New York Times, November 26, 1988, pp. 1–4.
2. New Yorker, May 11, 1987, p. 2.
Prozac Days, Halcion Nights
1. “Jury Partly Blames Sleeping Pill in a Murder,” New York Times, November 13, 1992, p. A20.
2. See Roth's “Roth on the Record” (letter to the editor), Atlantic, June 2012, p. 14.
PRISONERS
The Death-in-Life of Benjamin Reid
1. Chessman (b. 1921) was convicted of robbery, kidnapping, and rape in 1948 and was sentenced to death. Acting as his own attorney, he avoided eight execution deadlines; in published letters, essays, and books he argued for his innocence and sparked a national debate about capital punishment. He died in the gas chamber at San Quentin on May 2, 1960.
A Death in Canaan
1. Joan Barthel, “Did Peter Reilly Murder His Mother?” New Times, February 8, 1974, p. 20.
2. John Corry, “Arthur Miller Turns Detective in Murder,” New York Times, December 15, 1975, p. 46.
PRESIDENTIAL
Havanas in Camelot
1. Alfred Kazin, “The President and Other Intellectuals,” American Scholar 30 (Autumn 1961), 498–516.
Clinton and the Puritans
1. Wall Street Journal, September 14, 1998.
LITERARY
We Weren’t in It for the Money
1. Jonathan Yardley, “Literary Lions and the Tame Turner Award,” Washington Post (Style section), June 17, 1991.
2. Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (New York: Bantam/Turner, 1992).
3. See Edwin McDowell, “Judges in Turner Award Dispute Merits of Novel Given a $500,000 Prize,” New York Times, June 5, 1991.
ANTECEDENTS
“O Lost!” Etc.
1. Bernard DeVoto, “Genius Is Not Enough,” Saturday Review of Literature, April 25, 1936, pp. 3–4, 14–15.
FRIENDS AND CONTEMPORARIES
My Generation
1. Hollander, Poems of Our Moment (New York: Pegasus, 1968), p. 20.
Big Jim
1. Dickey's eulogy for Capote was published in the Proceedings of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 2nd series, no. 35 (May 16, 1984).
CRUSADES, COMPLAINTS, GRIPES
If You Write for Television…
1. Pierson, “The Censorship of Television,” 2 parts, New Republic, March 23 and 30, 1959.
Cigarette Ads and the Press
1. Smoking and Health (1964), and The Health Consequences of Smoking (1967).