1940s

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He finally got to the top of the world...and it blew right up in his face.

White Heat

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White Heat. Directed by Raoul Walsh, Warner Bros., 1949.

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The Maltese Falcon. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros., 1941.

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Eliot, T. S. "East Coker." New English Weekly, Mar. 1940.

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Jung, Carl. Psychologie un Alchemie [Psychology and Alchemy] Routledge, 1944.

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Matisse, Henri. Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview. Interviewed by Pierre Courthion, edited by Serge Guilbaut, translated by Chris Miller. Getty Publications, 2013, p. 90.

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Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann/The Viking Press, 1948, bk. 1, pt. 3, ch. 1, sec. 1.

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Truman, Harry S. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1949, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 1.

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Truman, Harry S. Message to Congress on atomic energy. 3 Oct. 1945, Washington, DC, USA.

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The Maltese Falcon. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros., 1941.

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Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946, ch. 1.

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Truman, Harry S. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1949, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 2, Gallimard, 1949.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.

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Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

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Hoover, Herbert. Address in Chicago. Republican National Convention. 27 June 1944, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Truman, Harry S. Annual message to the Congress on the State of the Union. 5 Jan. 1949, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Truman, Harry S. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1949, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

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It's a Wonderful Life. Directed by Frank Capra, Liberty Films, 1946.