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ix Acknowledgments If you work on a project long enough, you find yourself swimming in a great ocean of gratitude. Thanks first, as is always most appropriate for historians, to the generous and knowledgeable archivists and librarians at so many places: especially Charlotte Ames, Kevin Cawley, and Wendy Clauson Schlereth at the University of Notre Dame; and many others at Boston College, the Archdiocese of Chicago, Georgetown University, the Midwest Jesuit Archives in St. Louis, the University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, and the University of Dayton’s U.S. Catholic Collection and Marian Library. Thanks especially to colleagues and friends at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, who have supported my work from its earliest days to the present: Jay Dolan, Scott Appleby, Barbara Lockwood, Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Timothy Matovina, and Paula Brach. A Research Travel Grant from the Cushwa Center was the first external funding I ever received. Thanks to those skilled and patient editors at Cornell University Press and Westchester Publishing Services who made the manuscript into a book: Michael McGandy, Sarah Grossman, Susan Specter, and Melody Negron, along with the book’s indexer, Linda Webster. Thanks to the great scholars and generous human beings who shaped my thinking on literature, history, and culture—Anthony N. B. Garvan, Henry H. Glassie, Francis J. Henninger, Murray G. Murphey, Janice A. Radway, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, and Don Yoder. Thanks also to the supportive administrator-scholars, my colleagues and friends at the University of Dayton, without whom few of us could do what we do, especially Frank Lazarus, Paul Morman, Mary Morton, Paul Benson, and Julius Amin. Thanks to the colleagues and friends who read and discussed and responded to endless versions of the project—Mike Barnes, Dennis Doyle, Jim Heft, Therese Lysaught, Jack McGrath, Maureen Tilley, Terry Tilley, Sandra Yocum (all former stalwarts of the DGDG), and several lively and useful colloquia with my History Department colleagues. x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thanks to other gracious colleagues and friends in Catholic Studies, at the University of Dayton and elsewhere—Phil Gleason, David O’Brien, Jim Fisher, Nicoletta Hary, John McGreevy, Maggie McGuinness, Bill Portier, Ellen Skerrett, and Tony Smith. Thanks for general solidarity and sustenance of all kinds to dear friends Liesl Allingham, John Benvenuto, Ellen Fleischmann, Larry Flockerzie, Mary Harvan Gorgette, Barbara Heath, Carol Engelhardt Herringer, Kelly Johnson , Caroline Merithew, and Bill and Sue Trollinger. Three colleagues and friends read the manuscript at a crucial point, and their (independent) responses convinced me that it was a book: Steve Dandaneau , Carol Herringer, and Jim Heft. My deepest thanks to all of these people, because it is thanks to them that I was able to bring this project to completion. Its strengths are largely theirs; its weaknesses are all mine. This is, first and foremost, for my parents, William and Sarah Cadegan, because if we are, as I believe, nothing other than the culmination of all the ways in which we have been loved, then most of the good of any kind of which I am capable is due to them. ...

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