Political Writings

Acknowledgements

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Previously unpublished works by Theodore Dreiser and illustrations from the Theodore Dreiser Papers and the W. A. Swanberg Collection at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, are published courtesy of the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. I am indebted to the Dreiser Trust and Harold Dies for permission to print excerpts from Tragic America and America Is Worth Saving. This volume has been supported by research leave from the University of Winchester and the Arts and Humanities Research Council of Great Britain (Matching Leave Scheme), and the McCorison Fellowship awarded by the Bibliographical Society of America. My grateful thanks to all of these bodies, and to Professor Liz Stuart, pro vice-chancellor at the University of Winchester. It could not have been completed without the generous, cordial, and expert aid of the staff of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Pennsylvania. I would especially like to thank Curator of Manuscripts Nancy M. Shawcross for her continuing contribution of expertise to the Dreiser Edition, and John Pollack for his particular interest in this project and for his help, which went far beyond reasonable expectations. A great debt of gratitude is owed to Tom Riggio—who has done more than anyone to demonstrate Dreiser’s continuing relevance in the twentyfirst century—for his enthusiasm, knowledge, and attention to detail. I am particularly grateful to Clare Eby for her perceptive comments and very helpful suggestions on a complete draft of the book. For their illumination of Dreiser more generally, I would also like to thank Stephen C. Brennan, Richard Lingeman, Jerome Loving, Keith Newlin, and Donald Pizer; and for advice on matters ranging from Taoism to the Communist Party of America, I thank Chris Aldous, Ian Bell, John Bentley, Janet Beer, Anna King, Lisa Merrill, Alasdair Spark, and Graham Thompson. At the University of Illinois Press, I would like to thank Dr. Willis Regier, Angela Burton, Tad Ringo, and Douglas Clayton. Finally and most deeply, I would like to thank Carol Smith for her inexhaustible support, patience, criticism, and insight, and Rosa Davies, “seed corn of the future,” for her inspiration. ...