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”Domestic Politics,” The American Experience, TR, PBS, /wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/tr-domestic/.

98 inside his new Department of Commerce and Labor

Ibid.

99 break up J. P. Morgan's Northern Securities Corporation

Ibid.

100 112 corporations worth a combined $571 billion (in 2012 dollars)

Korten, When Corporations Rule the World, p. 67.

101 ”twice the total a.s.sessed value of all property in thirteen states”

Ibid.

102 This was followed by forty more ant.i.trust suits

”Domestic Politics,” PBS.

103 protected more than 230 million acres of land

Ibid.

104 winning the n.o.bel Peace Prize

Historians now believe that, while Roosevelt was no doubt essential to the brokering of an effective deal, he was not truly a neutral arbiter and tilted heavily toward j.a.pan in private. See James Bradley, ”Diplomacy That Will Live in Infamy,” New York Times, December 6, 2009.

105 ”wise custom” by serving only two terms

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