Misc. pynchon-relevant stuff "learned' while learning other stuff

[Mark Kohut]

>From "The Rise of Industrial America": (Post-Reconstruction Period) by Page Smith. 
"So the central intellectual and moral issue of this volume is the rise
of science,....and the central problem is the war between capital and labor. ......
A subsidiary, but extremely important, theme is the emergence of the West"

Underlying all other themes of the period is that of the adjustment of americans to a new order of things: the formation of a new consciousness."
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There is an economist at Vanderbilt who is refining a process to measure the connection between business (leaders) and political influence/power. Took the book back without registering her name. 
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Abe Lincoln was a potsmaster and surveyor in 1830s Illinois.
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TS Eliot rejected Animal Farm when he was an editor at Faber.