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Where the book rests on a named report, filing, interview, or study, the origin is listed here. Phrase-keyed numbers and quotes live in Notes.

The Straight Line We Were Promised

  • Glen H. Elder, Jr.. 1974 (later anniversary editions). Elder 1974 — Children of the Great Depression. University of Chicago Press.

  • Martin Kohli. 2007. Kohli 2007 — Institutionalization of the Life Course. *Research in Human Development*, 4(3–4), 253–271.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/15427600701663122

The Clock Was Also a Wall

What Goes Up Must Eventually Change

From the Top to the Bottom

The Success That Became the Problem

A Life That Changed Size

The Year Before the Later Name

Companies That Almost Disappeared

The Failure That Was Actually a Wrong Direction

The Work That Stayed Unnamed

Too Late

A Different Published Hour

Starting Again Is Not Starting From Zero

Not Every Failure Becomes a Comeback

The Plateau

Comparison Is a Distorted Graph

  • Leon Festinger. 1954. Festinger — A Theory of Social Comparison Processes (1954). *Human Relations*, Vol. 7, pp. 117–140. Reprint used: Sage / humanscience.org copy of the article. Original journal pagination is not marked on the reprint.

  • Marc Mangel and Francisco J. Samaniego. June 1984. Mangel and Samaniego — Abraham Wald's Work on Aircraft Survivability (1984). *Journal of the American Statistical Association*, Vol. 79, No. 386, pp. 259–267. (JSTOR 2288257). Body read from the JSTOR scan (Mangel’s UCSC copy of the same pages).

    https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1984.10478038