Wilson’s Diplomacy: An International Symposium (Cambridge: Schenkman,
1973), 9.
9 Eric Foner provides a capsule account of the changes in Reconstruction
historiography in Reconstruction (New York: Harper & Row, 1988), xix-xxiii
and 609-11.
10 Leon Festinger, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance (Evanston, IL: Row,
Peterson, 1957).
11 Well, I didn’t interview any recent history-makers.
12 The American Journey went to press before the terrorists struck.
13 Warren Bass, a staff member of the 9/11 Commission, summarized bin
Laden in “Incendiary,” Washington Post Book World, 1/14/2007.
14 George W. Bush, “Address to Joint Session of Congress,” 9/20/2001,
whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html.
15 Mitch Frank, Understanding September 11th (New York: Viking, 2002),
16; Mitch Frank, “Restoring the World Trade Center,” American Heritage,
2/2005, 9.
16 Their construction did rely upon “the cooperation of men,” but then so does
any large-scale enterprise, including the terrorists’ attack.
17 Frank, “Restoring the World Trade Center,” 2/2005, 9.
18 James Fallows’s Atlantic articles are summarized in his Blind into
Baghdad (New York: Random House Vintage, 2006); Michael Scheuer is
quoted in Jason Burke, “Will the Real al-Qaida Please Stand Up?” The
Guardian, 3/11/2006, books .guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1726185,00.html
(May 2007); Pentagon report, 11/2004, quoted in Thom Shanker, “U.S. Failing
to Persuade Muslims, Panel Says,” International Herald Tribune ,
11/25/2004.
19 Diane Ravitch, Chester Finn, et al., A Consumer’s Guide to High School
History Textbooks (Washington, D.C.: Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2004).
20 Anthony Lappé and Stephen Marshall, True Lies (New York: Penguin
Plume, 2004), 125-26; Gerald D. Mc-Knight, “How the Warren Commission
Failed the Nation and Why,” excerpted on History News Network, 11/28/05,
hnn.us/articles/16615.html; John King, “Arming Iraq and the Path to War,”
U.N. Observer and International Report, 3/31/2003,