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Starting in 1939, the FBI kept a list of people who had the “possibility but not the probability” of acting contrary to the FBI’s view of the national interest.
Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI (New York: Vintage Books, 2014), 251-52.
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The amount of self-employed Americans decreased from 80% in 1820 to 20% in 1940.
Fraser, Steve, The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2015), 59. Jay Cooke was such a successful financier that when his business collapsed at the start of the Panic of 1873 a Philadelphia newsboy spreading the story was arrested because a police officer thought the boy was lying.
Michael A. Bellesiles, 1877: America’s Year of Living Violently (New York: The New Press, 2010), 4. |
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