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149 Notes Introduction: In the Spirit of the Revolution 1. Vincent and Robert deforrest, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Federal Charters, Holidays, and Celebrations, united states senate, 92nd Cong., 2d sess. (Washington: u.s. Government Printing office, 1972), 485. 2. ibid., 487. 3. ibid., 488, 491. 4. Michael frisch, A Shared Authority: Essays on the Craft and Meaning of Oral and Public History (albany: state university of new york Press, 1990), 15. 5. see Bruce schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (Cambridge, Ma: da Capo Press, 2001). 6. lizabeth Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (new york: Vintage Books, 2004), 295. 7. see sean Wilentz, The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008 (new york: harper Collins , 2008). 8. thomas Borstelmann, The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality (Princeton: Princeton university Press, 2012), 317. 9. niall ferguson, Charles s. Maier, erez Manela, and daniel sargent, eds., The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (Cambridge: Belknap Press of harvard university Press, 2010). this collection is an excellent discussion of the united states in global context, especially in terms of economic history. see particularly Parts i and ii. 10. ferguson, “Crisis, What Crisis?,” ibid., 12. 11. “King tut,” performed by steve Martin, Saturday Night Live, april 22, 1978, nBC, www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/king-tut/976141/; Marjorie schwarzer, Riches, Rivals, and Radicals: 100 Years of Museums in America (Washington, d.C.: american association of Museums), 152–53. 12. in the last twenty years, scholars have built a rich body of literature demonstrating the importance of consumerism in american history. see t. h. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence (new york: oxford university Press, 2004); Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic; Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth Century America (Princeton: Princeton university Press, 2005); Charles f. McGovern, Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890–1945 (Chapel hill: university of north Carolina Press, 2006); susan strasser, Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market (new york: Pantheon, 1989); and Richard s. tedlow, New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America (new york: Basic Books, 1990). 150 Notes to Pages 8–13 13. andreas Killen, 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of PostSixties America (new york: Bloomsbury, 2006), 4. 14. Charles Maier, “‘Malaise’: the Crisis of Capitalism in the 1970s,” The Shock of the Global, 31. 15. Michael Kammen, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture (new york: alfred a. Knopf, 1991), 588–89, 695; Christopher Capozzola , “‘it Makes you Want to Believe in the Country’: Celebrating the Bicentennial in an age of limits,” in America in the 70s, ed. Beth Bailey and david farber (lawrence: university of Kansas Press, 2004), 30–31. 16. andrew feffer, “show down in Center City: staging Redevelopment and Citizenship in Bicentennial Philadelphia, 1974–1977,” Journal of Urban History 30 (2004): 791– 825; lyn spillman, Nation and Commemoration: Creating National Identities in the United States and Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge university Press, 1997); damon Kennedy, “Public history Pageantry: the united states Bicentennial in odessa, texas,” Permian Historical Annual 39 (2004): 791–825; Michelle hudson, “the effect of Roots and the Bicentennial on Genealogical interest among Patrons of the Mississippi department of archives and history,” Journal of Mississippi History 53, no. 4 (1991): 321–36. 17. Cohen, A Consumer’s Republic, 380–83. 18. this overview of the meanings of cold war consumerism is based on analyses provided ibid.; Gary Cross, An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America (new york: Columbia university Press, 2002); elaine tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (new york: Basic Books, 1988); and Karal ann Marling, As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s (Cambridge: harvard university Press, 1994). 19. Marilyn halter, Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity (new york: schocken , 2000); sharon Zukin, Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture (new york: Routledge, 2005), 169–96. 20. Breen, Marketplace, 197. 21. illustrated in Michael Kammen, A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination (ithaca: Cornell university Press, 1978): image gallery between pages 102–3. 22. ibid., 97–103; for examples of the “peace and prosperity” phase of patriotic merchandising , see s. Robert teitelman, Patricia humphrey, and Ronald fuchs ii, Success to America: Creamware for the American Market (Woodbridge, suffolk: antique Collectors’ Club...

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