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37. Quoted in Douglas MacMillan, “Andreessen: It’s Not a Tech Bubble,” Wall Street Journal, January 4–5, 2014.
38. See Stu Woo, Lynn Cowan, and Pui-Wing Tam, “LinkedIn IPO Surges, Feeding Web Boom,” Wall Street Journal, May 20, 2011.
39. See, for example, James Temple, “Free Advice for the Newly Rich (on Paper),” San Francisco Chronicle, May 22, 2011, accessed July 1, 2013, www.sfgate.com/business/article/Free-advice-for-the-newly-rich-on-paper-2370336.php.
40. For a discussion about the Netscape-Mozilla-Firefox connection, see Tom Abate, “Firefox Rises from Ashes of Abandoned Netscape,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 28, 2008, accessed February 15, 2014, www.sfgate.com/technology/article/Firefox-rises-from-ashes-of-abandoned-Netscape-3229083.php.
41. See ibid.
42. See “StatCounter Global Stats: Top 5 Desktop, Tablet and Console Browsers from Jan 2013 to Jan 2014,” StatCounter, accessed February 16, 2014, http://gs.statcounter.com/. The Firefox share in January 2014 was almost 19 percent.
43. John Tosh, The Pursuit of History, 5th ed. (New York: Routledge, 2013), 52. Tosh further noted: “Academic neglect of contemporary history . . . has dangerous consequences” (52).
44. See, for example, Charles Krauthammer, “Bill Clinton Is Fighting to Have Some Historical Relevance,” Washington Post, February 2, 2008.
45. Charles Krauthammer, “Clinton Writ Small,” Washington Post, June 25, 2004.
46. See, for example, Stephen Sestanovich, Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama (New York: Knopf, 2014), 265–66. See also Steve Ricchetti, “Don’t Put the Blame on Clinton,” Washington Post, February 22, 2003.
47. See Haynes Johnson, The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years (New York: Harcourt, 2001).
48. That essentially was the thesis of Francis Fukuyama, author of The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992). Fukuyama wrote that “liberal democracy remains the only coherent political aspiration that spans different regions and cultures around the globe” (xiii).
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Index
ABC, 185n13, 234n2; Bosnian War poll conducted by, 223n11; Clinton-Lewinsky, coverage of, 143; cyberporn, coverage of, 29; Dayton news blackout and, 228n98; Emmy-Award-winning shows on, 175; evening-news ratings of, 206n37; O.J. Simpson trial, coverage of, 97, 213n24; Oklahoma City bombing, coverage of, 64; tobacco industry and, 17–18, 174
Abdel-Rahman, Omar, 55, 163
abortion, 167, 174
Academy Awards, 9, 167, 169
Adams, Gerry, 166
Affordable Care Act, 153
Afghanistan War, 128, 146, 233n185
African Americans: M
illion Man March (Washington, DC; 1995), 10–11, 186–87nn36–37; O.J. Simpson trial and, 80, 85, 88–94
African American women, 186–87n36
African National Congress (ANC), 75
Ahmad, Ibrahim Abdullah Hassan, 65, 207n49
Ahrens, Frank, 246n5
Aideed, Mohammed Farah, 107
AIDS, 171
Air Force Museum (Dayton, OH), 115
Ajami, Fouad, 233n185
Alaska Airlines, online ticketing offered by, 181
Albanians, in Kosovo, 127
Albright, Madeleine, 124–25, 232n173
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City, OK): bombing of, 52–55, 54 fig. 9, 60, 168, 209n71 ; demolition of, 76; rumors of second bomb in, 206n35; site of, as outdoor memorial, 76–78, 77 fig. 12. See also Oklahoma City (OK) bombing (1995)
Allen, Dan G., 62
Alley, Wayne, 180
“All I Wanna Do” (song; Crow), 166
Alm, Richard, 184n4
Almon, Baylee, 53–55, 57 fig. 10, 58, 60, 205n17
Almon-Kok, Aren, 55, 60, 205n17
Alta Vista, 21–22, 181
Alter, Jonathan, 205–6n32, 207n53
Amazon.com: as commerce site, 25; credit card security at, 200n138, 202n174; critics of, 201n163; customer service focus of, 44–45, 201nn148–49, 158; emergence of, 1, 23; first employee hired by, 42, 44; founding myth of, 40–41, 199–200n130, 200n131; frugality of, 42–43, 200–201n143; “get big fast” as objective of, 43; IPO of, 43, 199nn124, 127; launching of, 40–42, 41 fig. 8, 173, 200n135; name of, 44; press coverage of, 44–47, 201n164; profitability of, 43; sales of, 42, 43; working conditions at, 44–45, 201n158; as world’s largest online retailer, 43–44
Amazon.com: Get Big Fast (Spector), 41–42
American Dialect Society, 22, 191n8
American Exceptionalism, 104, 121, 123–27, 128, 231n148, 233n187
American Terrorist (Michel and Herbeck), 209n71
America Online (AOL), 22, 24, 38–39, 160, 192n22, 199n118
Ameritech, 29
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