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1. Thomas Hine , Populuxe, Bloomsbury, London, 1987, p. 4.

2. Ricardo Parboni , The Dollar and its Rivals, Verso, London, 1981, p. 7. Mandel dates the US origins of the boom in 1940, and in the other imperialist nations, 1945-8; Ernest Mandel, Late Capitalism, New Left Books, London, 1975, p.121.

3. For an analysis which complements Carew's findings, Richard Fletcher , ‘How CIA money took the teeth out of British socialism’ in P. Agee and L. Woolf , Dirty Work. The CIA in Western Europe, Zed Press, London, 1981.

4. Garry Wills , Reagan's America. Innocents at home, Heinemann, London, 1988, p. 279.

5. Susan Crosland , Tony Crosland, Coronet, London, 1983, p. 13.

6. An attractively indulgent account can be found in Steve Chibnall , ‘Whistle and zoot’ History Workshop Journal, 20, 1985.