While we can't exactly footnote an episode, we can offer you a bibliography of all the books and articles we touch on in the episode. To the best of our ability, these references are organized by topic and by when they are touched on in the show. So, without further ado, the freaks present to you:
Intro/Outro Music
- Henry Wallace 1948 campaign song, "The Same Merry-go-Round"
- Billy Joel – "We Didn't Start the Fire"
Henry Wallace
- Henry Luce, "The American Century" (1941)
- Henry Wallace, "The Century of the Common Man" (1942)
- The book that Brian references is Victor Perlo's The Economics of Racism II (1996)
On Harry Truman
- David McCullough, Truman (1992)
1944 DNC
- The Untold History of the United States, "Chapter 2: Roosevelt, Truman & Wallace" (documentary, 2012)
- Interview with Edwin Pauley, director of the 1944 Convention and a key player in getting Truman the VP nom (1971)
Roosevelt's Weird Relationship with Mussolini
- John Diggins, "Flirtation with Fascism: American Pragmatic Liberals and Mussolini's Italy," The American Historical Review, Vol 71 No 2 (Jan. 1966)
- For examples of the press' treatment of Mussolini, see: New York Times, "Duce Meets a Roosevelt," 7/13/1937; "Italy Hails Our Dictator," 3/7/1933.
Labor and the New Deal and Later Truman Admin
- Richard Boyer & Herbert Morais, Labor's Untold Story (1955)
- Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (2005)
- Mike Davis, Prisoners of the American Dream (1986)
Black Labor, Operation Dixie, and the Truman Admin
- Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe (2015)
- Michael Honey, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights (1994)
- Philip Foner, Organized Labor & the Black Worker (1974)
Taft-Hartley Act
- Colin Gordon, "The Legacy of Taft-Hartley," Jacobin, 12/19/2017
Business Reaction Against the New Deal
- Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism 1945-1960 (1995)
- Alex Carey, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, (1997)
Seattle DSA
- Seattle DSA can be found here