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Acknowledgments My fervent thanks to Melissa Solomon, for planting the seed so many years ago; Duncan Dobbelman, for helping to organize the collection and furnishing its title; Gretchen Knapp, for customary shrewdness and abundant good humor; Bill Pore, for scouting in the stacks and nailing down those elusive quotations. It has been a great pleasure to work with the University of Iowa Press, and particular thanks go to the anonymous manuscript readers, for many valuable suggestions ; John Mulvihill, for superb copyediting and fact-checking beyond the call of duty; Karen Copp, for graciously handling all illustrations and artwork; Charlotte Wright, for guiding me through production so patiently; Holly Carver, for pleasant encouragements along the way; and my dear friend Prasenjit Gupta, for believing in the project and making it go! An emphatic note of gratitude must be sounded to recognize my contributors, for excellent work and wonderful cooperation with their editor during a long but gratifying process of collaboration. Special thanks to Lisa and Rei, who were “present at the creation.” And as always, I appreciate the love and support of my family, without whom really nothing is possible. ...

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