1. 1. The term "golden days" comes from John Dickie'sSpecial No More: Anglo-American Relations: Rhetoric and Reality(London, 1994), 105.
2. 2. This observation applies to all textbook descriptions of Anglo-American relations during the Macmillan years of which I am aware. See for example: Christopher J. Bartlett,The Special Relationship: A Political History of Anglo-American Relations since1945 (London, 1992); Dickie,Special No More; Alan P. Dobson,Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century: Of Friendship, Conflict and the Rise and Decline of Superpowers(London, 1995); John Dumbrell,A Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations in the Cold War and After(Basingstoke, England, 2001); Robert M. Hathaway,Great Britain and the United States: Special Relations since World War II(Boston, 1990); Ritchie Ovendale,Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century(Basingstoke, England, 1998); David Reynolds and David Dimbleby,An Ocean Apart: The Relationship between Britain and America in the Twentieth Century(London, 1988). For further general works which also come to a favorable assessment of the Macmillan era in this field see Alistair Horne,Macmillan, 1957-1986 (London, 1989); Richard Lamb,The Macmillan Years: The Emerging Truth(London, 1995); William Roger Louis and Hedley Bull, eds.The Special Relationship: Anglo-American Relations since1945 (Oxford, 1986). For a skeptical counter-blast see W. Scott Lucas, "The Cost of Myth: Macmillan and the Illusion of the 'Special Relationship' " in Richard Aldous and Sabine Lee,Harold Macmillan: Aspects of a Political Life(Basingstoke, England, 1999), 16-31.
3. 3. The quotations from Hathaway, Dumbrell, Horne, and Dickie are all from the tables of contents of the works cited in note 2 above.
4. 4. Quoted in Horne,Macmillan, 1957-1986, 279.
5. 5. Quoted in Dickie,Special No More, 105.