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Acknowledgments I would like to thank Clayton Adams for approving and supporting my plans to write a biography of his father. I also thank Eleanor McGowin Adams and Anne Cocroft Adams for their help and encouragement over my four years of research and writing. I thank as well Abraham Adams and the other members of the Adams and Clark families who were so quick to assist me in my endeavors. Through the kind cooperation of so many people, this project has become much more of an oral history than I ever hoped it would or could be. I am truly appreciative to all who answered my call and took time away from their busy schedules to share their thoughts and memories of Adams. They are: Alex Alben, George W. Allen, Ned Ames, Robert Appel, Kirk Balcom, Dana Ball, Janet Ball, Robert Baron, Howard Beaubien, Don Blascak, Joseph M. Carrier, Lael Chester, Nathaniel Ching, Catherine “Cally” Adams Christy, H. Nichols B. Clark, Chester Cooper, Caroline Davidson, Alix Clark Diana, David M. Dorsen, Bill Duker, David Elliott, Harold P. Ford, Joan Gardiner, John Gardiner, Bernard A. Gattozzi, Carlson Gerdau, David C. Gordon Jr., Leon Goure, David Halberstam, Andrew Hamilton, John Hardegree, Gains Hawkins Jr., Richard Helms, Helen Hiam, Peter Hiam, Joseph Hovey, Hunter Ingalls, Jerry Jacobson, Charles H. Kivett, Robert Klein, Richard Kovar, Jean Kraemer, Waldron Kraemer, Mary S. Kreimer, William LaBarge, Bobby Layton, David Lederman, Mary Adams Loomba, John Lorenz, Randy M. Mastro, Clark A. McCartney, Ray McGovern, Douglas Parry, Tom Powers, Edward Proctor, Patricia Roth, Gregory Rushford, Anthony J. Russo, Robert Sinclair, Judith Smith, Nicola Smith, R. Jack Smith, Byam K. Stevens, Roger Stone, William Stratton, Joseph C. Stumpf III, Dale Thorn, Mike Wallace, J. Barrie Williams, Jim Witker, Gertrude “Sue” Johnson Yager, David Zucchino, and those few who asked to remain anonymous. Whenever possible I arranged for an actual visit because to personally meet those who knew Adams at different epochs of his life was an honor for me, 295 Hiam_A MONUMENT TO DECEIT_text_Layout 1 1/28/14 9:43 AM Page 295 296 Acknowledgments but for those whom I was not able to meet and to thank in person, I thank them again now. Sean Noël and his staff hosted my two visits to the Samuel A. Adams Collection in the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, once for one week in 2001 and again for two weeks in 2003, and I am thankful for their attentive hospitality. I thank my editor Tom Powers for his advice and direction. I also thank Chip Fleischer, Laura Jorstad, Kristin Sperber, and everyone else at Steerforth Press for their help. I guess one could always ask more of one’s agent but when it comes to mine, Albert LaFarge, I can’t think of anything. To him I extend my heartfelt gratitude. To my parents I give thanks for many things, naturally, but specific to this book I give thanks to them for surrendering their library to me while I wrote the manuscript. And finally to Marina, Hannah, and Eliana — I thank them for everything. Hiam_A MONUMENT TO DECEIT_text_Layout 1 1/28/14 9:43 AM Page 296 ...

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