Hamburg Days by George Harrison, Astrid Kirchherr, and Klaus Voorman (Surrey: Genesis
Publications, 1999). The quotation is from page 122.
Robert W. Weisberg discusses the Beatles—and computes the hours they spent practicing—in
“Creativity and Knowledge: A Challenge to Theories” in Handbook of Creativity, ed. Robert J.
Sternberg (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999): 226–250.
The
complete
list
of
the
richest
people
in
history
can
be
found
at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealthy_historical_figures_2008
.
The reference to C. Wright Mills in the footnote comes from The American Business Elite: A
Collective Portrait, published in the Journal of Economic History 5 (December 1945): 20–44.
Steve Jobs’s pursuit of Bill Hewlett is described in Lee Butcher’s Accidental Millionaire: The Rise
and Fall of Steve Jobs at Apple Computer (New York: Paragon House, 1987).
THREE: THE TROUBLE WITH GENIUSES, PART 1
The episode of 1 vs. 100 featuring Chris Langan aired January 25, 2008.
Leta Hollingworth, who is mentioned in the footnote, published her account of “L” in Children Above
180 IQ (New York: World Books, 1942).
Among other excellent sources on the life and times of Lewis Terman are Henry L. Minton, “Charting
Life History: Lewis M. Terman’s Study of the Gifted” in The Rise of Experimentation in American
Psychology, ed. Jill G. Morawski (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988); Joel N. Shurkin,
Terman’s Kids (New York: Little, Brown, 1992); and May Seagoe, Terman and the Gifted (Los
Altos: Kauffman, 1975). The discussion of Henry Cowell comes from Seagoe.
Liam Hudson’s discussion of the limitations of IQ tests can be found in Contrary Imaginations: A
Psychological Study of the English Schoolboy (Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1967). Hudson is an
absolute delight to read.
The Michigan Law School study “Michigan’s Minority Graduates in Practice: The River Runs
Through Law School,” written by Richard O. Lempert, David L. Chambers, and Terry K. Adams,
appears in Law and Social Inquiry 25, no. 2 (2000).
Pitirim Sorokin’s rebuttal to Terman was published in Fads and Foibles in Modern Sociology and
Related Sciences (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1956).
FOUR: THE TROUBLE WITH GENIUSES, PART 2
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert
Oppenheimer (New York: Knopf, 2005).
Robert J. Sternberg has written widely on practical intelligence and similar subjects. For a good,
nonacademic account, see Successful Intelligence: How Practical and Creative Intelligence
Determine Success in Life (New York: Plume, 1997).
As should be obvious, I loved Annette Lareau’s book. It is well worth reading, as I have only begun
to outline her argument from Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2003).
Another excellent discussion of the difficulties in focusing solely on IQ is Stephen J. Ceci’s On
Intelligence: A Bioecological Treatise on Intellectual Development (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1996).
For a gentle but critical assessment of Terman’s study, see “The Vanishing Genius: Lewis Terman and
the Stanford Study” by Gretchen Kreuter. It was published in the History of Education Quarterly 2,
no. 1 (March 1962): 6–18.
FIVE: THE THREE LESSONS OF JOE FLOM
The definitive history of Skadden, Arps and the takeover culture was written by Lincoln Caplan,
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