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313 introduction 1. “Dropped to Eternity,” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 12, 1887, 2. See also Paul Avrich, The Haymarket Tragedy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press, 1984), 383–94; Henry David , The History of the Haymarket Affair: A Study in the American Social-Revolutionary and Labor Movements, 2d ed. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1958), 460–63; and James Green, Death in the Haymarket: A Story of the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America (New York: Anchor, 2006), 268–71. 2. Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (New York: Penguin Classics, 2001); and Kevin Phillips, Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich (New York: Broadway, 1992), 122. 3. John Tipple, “Big Businessmen and a New Economy,” in The Gilded Age, ed. H. Wayne Morgan, rev. and enl. ed. (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1970), 16. 4. David Von Drehle, Triangle: The Fire That Changed America (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003), 41, 14. 5. Beverly Gage, “Why Violence Matters: Radicalism, Politics, and Class War in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 1 (Jan. 2007): 102. 6. Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Politics in the Gilded Age (New York: Hill & Wang, 1982), 80. 7. See Charles Lomas, “Urban Mavericks and Radicals,” in The Rhetoric of Protest and Reform, 1878–1898, ed. Paul H. Boase (Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 1980), 36–54. 8. Charles Dobbs, “Socialism and the Capitalist Press,” ISR 2 (July 1901): 50. 9. See “The End of American Capitalism?” Washington Post, Oct. 10, 2008, A1; Glenn Beck: Barack Obama, Socialist?” FoxNews.com, Apr. 7, 2010, accessed Dec. 6, 2010, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,590532,00.html; Paul Roderick Gregory, “Is President Obama Truly a Socialist?” Forbes, Jan. 22, 2012, accessed Nov. 12, 2012, http:// www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2012/01/22/is-president-obama-trulya -socialist/; and Ron Scherer, “Is Obama a Socialist? What Does the Evidence Say?” Christian Science Monitor, July 1, 2010, accessed Dec. 6, 2010, http://www.csmonitor. com/USA/Politics/2010/0701/Is-Obama-a-socialist-What-does-the-evidence-say. 10. Ashley Fantz, “America’s Union Story: Blood, Struggle, and Bargaining for Good and Bad,” CNN, Mar. 4, 2011, http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/03/04/unions.history/ index.html?eref=rss_politics&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_ campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_allpolitics+%28RSS%3A+Politics%29. conclusion NOTES 11. See Randal C. Archibold, “U.S.’s Toughest Immigration Law is Signed in Arizona ,” New York Times, Apr. 24, 2010, 1; and Timothy Noah, “Banning French Fries,” Slate, Mar. 11, 2003, accessed Mar. 4, 2011, http://www.slate.com/id/2079975/. 12. “The New Socialism,” Washington Post, Dec. 11, 2009, A31. 13. See Ben Bagdikian, The New Media Monopoly: A Completely Revised and Updated Edition with Seven New Chapters, rev. ed. (Boston: Beacon, 2004). 14. Robert McChesney, “The U.S. Left and Media Politics,” Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine 50 (Feb. 1999): 32. 15. See Jeffrey Pasley, The “Tyranny of Printers”: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2003); and Eric Burns, Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism (New York: Public Affairs, 2004). 16. Leon Baritz, ed. The American Left: Radical Political Thought in the Twentieth Century (New York: Basic Books, 1971), xiii. 17. For books on individual journals discussed in this book, see Leslie Fishbein, Rebels in Bohemia: The Radicals of The Masses, 1911–1917 (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1982); John Graham, ed., “Yours for the Revolution”: The Appeal to Reason , 1895–1922 (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1990); Margaret C. Jones, Heretics and Hellraisers: Women Contributors to The Masses, 1911–1917 (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1993); Theodore Kornweibel Jr., No Crystal Stair: Black Life and The Messenger, 1917–1928 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1975); William O’Neill, Echoes of Revolt: The Masses, 1911–1917 (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1966); Allen Ruff, We Called Each Other Comrade : Charles H. Kerr & Company, Radical Publishers (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1997); Elliott Shore, Talkin’ Socialism: J. A. Wayland and the Radical Press (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1988) and Rebecca Zurier, Art for The Masses: A Radical Magazine and Its Graphics, 1911–1917 (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1988). 18. Joseph Conlin, introduction to The American Radical Press, 1880–1960, ed. Joseph Conlin, 2 vols. (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1974), 1:7 (italics in original). 19. Ibid., 12, 7. 20. See Benedict...

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