NOTES

Prologue

1. James Barron, “Historic Hysterics: Witnesses to a Really Big Show,” New York Times, February 7, 2014, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/08/nyregion/the-beatles-debut-on-ed-sullivan.html.

2. Ed Sullivan Show, https://www.edsullivan.com/artists/the-beatles/.

3. Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin), An Almanack for the Year of Christ (Philadelphia: B. Franklin, 1734).

4. Samuel Johnson, “No. 118,” in The Rambler, vol. 4 (London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752).

5. Samuel Johnson, “No. 21,” in The Rambler, vol. 1 (London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752).

6. Samuel Johnson, “No. 106,” in The Rambler, vol. 4 (London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752).

7. Johnson, “No. 106.”

8. Samuel Johnson, “Preface,” in The Plays of William Shakespeare ...

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