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Acknowledgments This book would never have been written without the support of many whom I would humbly and appreciatively like to recognize: My Rider University colleague Dr. Thomas Simonet, who copy-edited the manuscript, offered insightful suggestions, and supplied constant encouragement; The members of the First Presbyterian Church of Matawan and the Rev. Charles Cureton, who listened endlessly to my woes and unfailingly offered words of support and love, and especially Jane Price, who doggedly plowed through a difficult draft version; My dissertation committee at Rutgers University, adroitly led by cochairs Dr. Stanley Deetz and Dr. Linda Steiner, who read and revised version after version after version of my doctoral dissertation, on which this book is based, and who spent indefatigable hours shaping it; Dr. Robert Kubey and Dr. Nancy Roth, who encouraged and guided me; and especially my outside member, Dr. Andrea Press of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who encouraged me to submit the study for publication ; My Communications Department colleagues at Rider, especially my chairman, Dr. Howard Schwartz, who supportively arranged my schedule , and Dr. Jonathan Millen, who carefully and perceptively read the manuscript; My family, especially my mother, the Rev. Dr. Ellen McKinley, and my brother and sister-in-law, T and Gracia McKinley, who were always willing to open the floodgates and endure my rush of commentary and complaint that inevitably spilled out whenever we were together; My students, who generously tolerated my distraction, especially Michael Blank, who still doesn't have the information lowe him for our Web site; My fellow "rim rats" and bosses at The Times of Trenton, who put up with my sporadic late arrivals and occasionally divided attention; viII Acknowledgments And my generous interviewees, who cheerfully and unstintingly opened themselves to me, whose voices I have striven to reproduce faithfully and sympathetically, and who I hope will find the analysis meaningful and thought-provoking; Thank you all. I couldn't have done it without you. ...

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