The Opinions of Mankind: Racial Issues, Press, and Propaganda in the Cold War

Acknowledgments

DICK LENTz would like to thank David J. Garrow, who provided useful advice to a fledgling scholar who sought his assistance while researching and writing his first book and who benefited from his helpfulness equally on a second endeavor. He was both exceptionally encouraging and penetrating in his criticism of the topic of journalistic coverage of racial events in the United States that found its way abroad. Zena Beth McGlashan rescued from a departmental library’s discard pile a very helpful reprint, “15,000,000 Americans” by William Brower, a black journalist whose reporting on American racial matters for the Toledo Blade was preserved by that newspaper. Knowing of my interest in the topic, she passed the collection on to me. I remain grateful for her generosity. John Craft, a colleague at Arizona State University, provided detailed guidance on the topic of technical and other limitations on the movement of television signals across oceans in the pre-satellite era. Much help was provided by archivists and librarians who are too many in number, I regret, to mention by name and institutional affiliation. Above all, however, I never failed to benefit from those helpful spirits who labor at the National Archives as well as the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson presidential libraries. KARLA GOWER would like to thank Chase Montehue for his unwavering support and love. None of this would be possible without him. We would both like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful and insightful suggestions, as well as those at the University of Missouri Press with whom we’ve had the pleasure of working: Editor Clair Willcox, Project Manager John Brenner, and Jennifer Gravley and Beth Chandler in Marketing. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Opinions of Mankind ...