本书基于数百小时的访谈写成，其中有些访谈对象是书中故事的主人公，有些则分享了信息和洞见；此外，出版资料也补充了一部分信息，其中最重要的资料来源列在下面。著名人物的小传全部根据二手资料写成，其中最有用的部分也列在了下面；小传有时会重述或引用主人公本人的话，这些引语可以在书籍、文章和歌曲里找到。各个年度的文字拼贴有一系列来源——报纸、杂志、书籍、演讲、歌曲、广告、诗歌、电影、电视节目——所有这些都是在注明的年份写成、出版、录制或播出的（在www.fsgbooks.com/theunwinding可以找到一份清单）[该地址已失效，文字拼贴来源可见相关章节尾注。]。虽然本书整体是一本非虚构作品，它在文学上受到了约翰·多斯·帕索斯（John Dos Passos）的伟大小说作品“美国三部曲”（U. S. A. trilogy）的影响；该作品出版于上世纪30年代，如今亟待重版。

故事

迪恩·普莱斯和皮埃蒙特

Allen Tullos, Habits of Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina Piedmont (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989).

康诺顿和华盛顿特区

Joe Biden, Promises to Keep (New York: Random House, 2008).

Jeff Connaughton, The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins (Prospecta Press, 2012). 作者慷慨地分享了早期草稿。

Robert G. Kaiser, So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government (New York: Vintage Books, 2010).

塔米·托马斯和扬斯敦

Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison, The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry (New York: Basic Books, 1982).

Terry F. Buss and F. Stevens Redburn, Shutdown at Youngstown: Public Policy for Mass Unemployment (Albany: SUNY Press, 1983).

Stephen F. Diamond, “The Delphi ‘Bankruptcy’: The Continuation of Class War by Other Means,” Dissent (Spring 2006).

David M. Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo, Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002).

John Russo, “Integrated Production or Systematic Disinvestment: The Restructuring of Packard Electric” (unpublished paper, 1994).

Sean Safford, Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009).

彼得·蒂尔和硅谷

Sonia Arrison, 100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, from Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith, with a foreword by Peter Thiel (New York: Basic Books, 2011).

Eric M. Jackson, The Paypal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia and the Rest of Planet Earth (Los Angeles: World Ahead Publishing, 2010).

David Kirkpatrick, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011).

Jessica Livingston, “Max Levchin,” in Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days (New York: Apress, 2008).

Ben Mezrich, The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook (New York: Anchor, 2010).

David O. Sacks and Peter A. Thiel, The Diversity Myth: Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus (Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute, 1998).

坦帕

Richard Florida, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity (New York: HarperCollins, 2010).

Alyssa Katz, Our Lot: How Real Estate Came to Own Us (New York: Bloomsbury, 2010).

Robert J. Kerstein, Politics and Growth in Twentieth-Century Tampa (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001).

Paul Reyes, Exiles in Eden: Life Among the Ruins of Florida's Great Recession (New York: Henry Holt, 2010).

人物小传

纽特·金里奇

Adam Clymer, “The Teacher of the ‘Rules of Civilization’ Gets a Scolding,” New York Times (January 26, 1997).

Steven M. Gillon, The Pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the Rivalry That Defined a Generation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

Newt Gingrich, Lessons Learned the Hard Way (New York: HarperCollins, 1998).

Newt Gingrich, To Renew America (New York: HarperCollins, 1999).

Newt Gingrich with David Drake and Marianne Gingrich, Window of Opportunity: A Blueprint for the Future (New York: Tor Books, 1984).

John H. Richardson, “Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican,” Esquire (September 2010).

Gail Sheehy, “The Inner Quest of Newt Gingrich,” Vanity Fair (September 1995).

奥普拉·温弗瑞

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison, “The Importance of Being Oprah,” New York Times Magazine (June 11, 1989).

Kitty Kelley, Oprah: A Biography (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2011).

Ken Lawrence, The World According to Oprah: An Unauthorized Portrait in Her Own Words (Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2005).

雷蒙德·卡佛

Raymond Carver, Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 1984).

Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories (New York: Vintage Books, 1989).

Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: Stories (New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1989).

Conversations with Raymond Carver, Marshall Bruce Gentry and William L. Stull, eds. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990).

Carol Sklenicka, Raymond Carver: A Writer's Life (New York: Scribner, 2010).

山姆·沃尔顿

Bob Ortega, In Sam We Trust: The Untold Story of Sam Walton and How Wal-Mart Is Devouring America (New York: Crown Business, 1998).

Sam Walton with John Huey, Sam Walton, Made in America: My Story (New York: Doubleday, 1992).

科林·鲍威尔

Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell (New York: Knopf, 2006).

John B. Judis, The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust (New York: Routledge, 2001).

Colin L. Powell with Joseph E. Persico, My American Journey (New York: Ballantine, 1996).

爱丽丝·沃特斯

Thomas McNamee, Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution (New York: Penguin, 2008).

Alice Waters with Daniel Duane, Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2008).

罗伯特·鲁宾

William D. Cohan, Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World (New York: Doubleday, 2011).

William D. Cohan, “Rethinking Robert Rubin,” Bloomberg Businessweek (September 30, 2012).

Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer——And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010).

Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2010).

Robert B. Reich, Locked in the Cabinet (New York: Vintage Books, 1998).

Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg, In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington (New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004).

Jay-Z

Zack O'Malley Greenburg, Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2011).

Jay-Z, Decoded (New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2011).

Jay-Z, “December 4th,” The Black Album (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam, 2003).

Jay-Z, “Empire State of Mind,” The Blueprint 3 (Roc Nation, 2009).

Jay-Z, “Rap Game/Crack Game,” “Streets Is Watching,” “You Must Love Me,” In My Lifetime Vol.1 (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam, 1997).

Jay-Z, “Can I Live,” “Dead Presidents II,” “D'Evils,” “Regrets,” “22 Two's,” Reasonable Doubt (Roc-A-Fella, 1996).

Jay-Z, “Brooklyn Go Hard” (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam, 2008), “Glory” (Roc Nation, 2012).

Kelefa Sanneh, “Gettin’ Paid,” New Yorker (August 20, 2001).

Touré, “The Book of Jay,” Rolling Stone (December 15, 2005).

Kanye West, “Diamonds from Sierra Leone,” Late Registration (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam, 2005).

安德鲁·布莱巴特

Christopher Beam, “Media Is Everything. It's Everything,” Slate (March 15, 2010).

Andrew Breitbart, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World! (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011).

Chris K. Daley, Becoming Breitbart (Claremont, CA: Chris Daley Publishing, 2012).

Rebecca Mead, “Rage Machine,” New Yorker (May 24, 2010).

伊丽莎白·沃伦

Suzanna Andrews, “The Woman Who Knew Too Much,” Vanity Fair (November 2011).

Noah Bierman, “A Girl Who Soared, but Longed to Belong,” Boston Globe (February 12, 2012).

Harry Kreisler, Political Awakenings: Conversations with History (New York: The New Press, 2010).

Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren, and Jay Lawrence Westbrook, As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).

Teresa A. Sullivan, Elizabeth Warren, and Jay Lawrence Westbrook, The Fragile Middle Class: Americans in Debt (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000).

Jeffrey Toobin, “The Professor,” New Yorker (September 17, 2012).

Elizabeth Warren, interview by Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Comedy Central, April 15, 2009, and January 26, 2010.

Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke (New York: Basic Books, 2003).