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BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The following books were consulted in order to assure that The End of Arrogance maintained its historical accuracy. The author would like to thank the writers of these books for their scholarship and inspiration, without which I would have been lost.

England:
English Landscape, Merchant Ivory. Pavilion Books, Ltd, 1995
London: 2000 Years of a City and its People, Barker, MacMillan, London 1974.
The Doctors Dilemma: a Tragedy and Getting Married: a Comedy, George Bernard Shaw
The Trow Press, NY 1909
London, The Novel, Edward Rutherford, Century Books, London, 1997
Adventures in London, James Douglas, Cassell & Co.,London, 1909
These Are the British, Drew Middleton, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1957
English Romantic Poetry, (Anthology), Harold Bloom, Doubleday, Anchor 1963
Heaven's Command, James Morris, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1973
A London Family 1870-1900, Molly Hughes, Oxford Univ. Press, 1934 & 1991
The World of Upstairs, Downstairs, Molly Hardwich, Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1976
A Silver-Plated Spoon, John,Duke of Bedford, The Reprint Society Ltd, London
The Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, with George Mikes, 1965
Their Noble Lordships, Class&Power in Modern Britain, Simon Winchester, Random House, 1982
Aspects of Aristocracy, David Cannadine, Penguin Books Ltd 1994
The Rise & Fall of Class in Britain, David Cannadine Columbia Univ. Press 1999
The Age of Empire, Eric Hobshawn, George Weidenfeld&Nicholson, 1987
This Realm, This England, Samuel Chamberlain, Hastings House, 1941
The Face of London, Harold Clunn, Spring Brook, 1932
Goodby to Yesterday, Barbara Goolden, Wm Heinemann Ltd, 1976
The Edwardians, Peter Brent, Cox&Wyman, Ltd, London 1972
An Edwardian Childhood, Jane Pettigrew, Little Brown, & Co. 1991
The Way of Ambition, Robert Hichens, The Butterick Publishing Co. 1912
Edward the King, Prince of Hearts and Edward the King, Monarch Among Men, Pocket Books, N.Y 1974
Social History of Edwardian Britain, James Bishop, Angus & Robertson 1977
The Illustrated London News
The Edwardian Turn of Mind, Samuel Hynes, Princeton Univ Press, 1968
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, John Sutherland, Oxford Univ Press 1991
Nineteenth Century Britain, 1815-1914, Anthony Wood, Longman Group, 1960
The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen, Penguine Books 1899
The New Women and the Old Men, Ruth Brandon, W.W.Norton & Co, 1990
The Victorians, Eyre& Spotiswood, 1960
The Odd Women, George Gissing, Thos Nelson & Sons, England, very old.
A Modern Circe, The "Duchess", Pollard & Moss, NY 1889
John Halifax, Gentleman, Mrs. Craik, Collins Clear-type Press 1856
Bloomsbury Recalled, Quentin Bell, orig. titled Elders & Betters, John Murray Ltd. 1993
Bloomsbury Women, Jan Marsh, Henry Holt & Co., 1995
Life and London, Jean Moorcroft, Cecil Woolf Publishers 1987
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf, Harcourt Brace Jovanowich. 1929
Downhill All the Way, Leonard Woolf, 1967
Howard's End, E.M.Forster, Barnes & Noble 1993
Old Money, Elizabeth Palmer, St. Martin's Press (orig.Century, G.B.) 1996
John Strachey, Hugh Thomas, Harper & Row, 1973
Timpkin's English Eccentrics, Jarrod Publ. 1991
The Rothschilds, Frederic Morton, Atheneum, 1962, Curtis Publishing 1961
The Shooting Party, Isabel Colegate, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1980
1939 The Last Season of Peace, Angela Lambert, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1989

The Self-Made Man:
The Rise of Meritocracy, 1870-2033, Michael Young, Penguin Books 1958
Apostles of the Self-Made Man, John Cawelti, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1965
The Magic of Thinking Big, David Schwartz, Prentice Hall 1959
Andrew Carnegie, Harold Livesay, Little,Brown & Co. 1975
The Rise of Silas Lapham, Wm. Dean Howells, Signet Classic, New English Libr.
Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy, Alvin Gouldner, Free Press, Collier MacMill. 1954
Peak Performers, Charles Garfield, Avon 1986
Up the Organization, Robert Townsend, Fawcett Crest Books 1970
My Life and Principles for Success, The Summit Publ. Group 1996
Steel Titan, Robert Hessen, Univ. of Pittsburg Press 1975
The Decline of American Steel, Paul Tiffan6, Oxford Univ. Press 1988
Made in America, Sam Walton, Bantam, Doubleday, Dell 1992
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey, Simon & Schuster 1989
From the Crash to the Blitz, 1929-1939, Cabell Phillips, 1969

The Great War:
The Lions of July, Prelude to War, William Jannen, Presidio Press, 1996
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Remarque, LittleBrown Co/FawCrest 1929
War in the Trenches, Stewart Ross, The Bookwright Press, N>Y> 1991
Back to the Front, Stephen O'Shea, Walker & Co. 1996
Vimy Ridge, Arras, Nigel Cave, Pen and Sword Ltd 1996
Sonrme, Malcolm Brown, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988
Gentlemen Volunteers, Arlen Hansen, Arcade Publishers 1996

General:
The Achieving Society, David McClelland, The Free Press, 1967
The Altruistic Personality, Pearl & Samuel Oliner, 1988
The Book of Royal Lists, Browne & Cunliffe,Summit Books, 1982
Mom Loved You Best, Sibling Rivalry, Hapworth & Hellman, Viking, Penguin, 1993

Sex:
The Making of Victorian Sexuality, Michael Mason, Oxford Univ.Press 1994
City of Dreadful Delight, Judith Walkowitz, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992
What to Do When He Has a Headache, Janet Wolfe, Ph.D., Penquin Books 1992
How to Make Love All Night, Barbara Keesling, Ph.D, 1994
The Art of Furtling
The Joy of Writing Sex, Elizabeth Benedict

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