The Man in the High Castle Allusions & Cultural References

When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1.11) was president.
World's Fair (1.11), probably the one in 1933, in Chicago
WPA (1.26), possibly the Works Progress Administration, which was a New Deal program (which is weird since FDR died before he started the WPA)
Jean Harlow (1.30), classic movie star
B. Bill (1.38) is probably Buffalo Bill.
Joe Zangara (5.54) actually did take a shot at FDR.
Rexford Tugwell (5.58) was part of FDR's Brain Trust.
Cotton Mather (14.212), 1663-1728, was a minister.

"What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?" (1.63) is a quote from the Bible
The I Ching (1.66) is a Chinese book of divination and philosophy, popularized in Japan by Buddhists
Pinafore (2.41) refers to the H.M.S. Pinafore, a comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Tip Top Comics (2.48) was a line of comic books starting 1936.
Horrors of War cards (2.64)
Life magazine still exists! (6.3)
Bob Hope and Jimmy Durante (6.6)
The line "Now a gavotte perform sedately. Capital both, capital both; you've caught it nicely. This is the style of thing precisely" is from the comic opera The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan (Tagomi abbreviates it as "G&S"). Lots of G&S shows were put on by the D'Oyly Carte Company. (6.177)
Bunk Johnson and Kid Ory (7.58) were jazz musicians.
New Orleans Rhythm Kings (7.60)
Glenn Miller (7.93) was a big band leader.
Nathanael West was a Jewish-American writer and Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) was his second book. (7.97)
Italian conductor Toscanini (10.67)
Austrian conductor von Karajan (10.69)
Italian composer Verdi (10.71)
Italian composer Puccini (10.71)
German composer Wagner (10.71)
German composer Orff (10.71)
Mokkei's Tiger (11.66) is a reference to the Chinese Buddhist painter Muqi (or Mokkei) and his painting of a tiger.
"When I was a child I thought as a child" (14.88) is also a Bible quote.
"Through a glass darkly" and "St. Paul" (14.144) are a reference to 1 Corinthians 13 , attributed to St. Paul.

General Gott, British officer (6.41)
General Wavell, British commander (6.49)
Haselden, British commander (9.93)
Churchill, British leader during WWII (10.98)
Cromwell, Lord Protector of England (10.108)

Graziani, Italian commander (6.49)
Il Duce (10.106) means "The Leader" and refers to Mussolini (10.107), Fascist leader of Italy.
Count Ciano, Mussolini's foreign secretary (12.74)