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Acknowledgments We are grateful for the contribution of many people to this book: Eric Newman, Fordham University Press’s managing editor; Laura Wood, our agent at FinePrint; Peter Barksdale at the New York Public Library; and Nicholas Taylor, our copy editor. We thank Peter Vaughan and William Seraile for their careful reading of the manuscript and acknowledge the support of Geraldine Flaherty, Monsignor Robert M. Harris, Father Paul Landolfi, James McCann, Rita E. Moran, Father Joseph O’Hare, Tom Penders, Joseph Reilly, Robert Rohs, and Marilyn Sachar. Thanks also to Fred Nachbaur, Kate O’Brien-Nicholson and Kathleen A. Sweeney, and Tara Kennedy. And finally, our love and gratitude to Steven Estrine, without whom this book would never have happened. ...

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