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ix Ac k n o w l e d g m e n t s A number of people have made this book possible. At the University of Chicago my dissertation supervisor, Emmet Larkin, not only guided the project through its many stages but also provided a peerless example of professionalism. He is a model as to how to conduct oneself as a scholar and a teacher. Two other members of my dissertation committee, David Tracy and Andrew Greeley, supported the project at its inception and provided constructive criticism. But for the early encouragement of Stewart Weaver and John Guy at the University of Rochester I would never have enrolled in a Ph.D. program in history. They introduced me to British history and gave me the confidence to make a career of it. Two members of the Fordham University philosophy department, John Conley, S.J., and Joseph Koterski, S.J., introduced me to Catholic intellectual history . I first encountered Jacques Maritain’s Art and Scholasticism in­ Professor Conley’s course on aesthetics, little knowing that I would discuss it in my Ph.D. dissertation and book; and Joe Koterski has continued to encourage my work. I must also thank the anonymous readers for the University of Notre Dame Press, both of whom provided helpful criticism of my manuscript and also saved me from several embarrassing errors. Any remaining errors are mine. Thanks are also due to the staff at the University of Notre Dame Press, especially Barbara Hanrahan, director; Rebecca DeBoer, managing editor; Margaret Gloster, design manager; and Sheila Berg, copy editor. The staffs of a number of libraries and archives provided vital assistance to this project, including those of the Interlibrary Loan Department at the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library, the  New York Public Library, the British Museum Manuscript Reading Room, the British Library, the British Newspaper Library, the Burns Library at Boston College, and the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame. Several librarians and archivists deserve special mention. Nicholas Scheetz, Manuscripts’ Librarian at Georgetown, was a font of information on English Catholic intellectuals; Fr. Ian Dickie was a cordial host for the two summers I spent investigating the Archives of the Archdiocese of Westminster; and John Davenport of the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, was gracious enough to find me accommodation on campus, greatly easing the financial burden of my investigation of Christopher Dawson’s papers. While I was conducting several weeks of research at Boston College , Gavin and Colleen Fischer were kind enough to have me live in their home. I spent a summer in London staying with David Tuvlin , only a short walk from the Westminster Diocesan archives. I am thankful as well to Jen and Andy Kitt for hosting me in their Maryland home when I was investigating the collections at Georgetown. I need also to express my gratitude to my father-in-law and mother-in-law, Steve and Peggy Gorman. They provided a haven at their home on many Sunday afternoons with my wife and children, a refuge from my work. My own parents provided not only needed financial support for some of the research but also the encouragement and understanding that perhaps only two fellow academics can provide and of course, most important, their love. Acknowledgments ...

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