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Acknowledgments Acknowledgments Over the approximately fifteen years that I took to write this book I have accrued a great number of debts, large and small, to people and institutions . If I have forgotten to mention any of them it is not because I am ungrateful but rather because I have so many to thank. Funding for research was provided by a Fulbright Research Grant and by various grants from St. Bonaventure University. I would in particular like to thank two of the administrators at St. Bonaventure, Edward Eckert and Stephen Stahl, for their interest in my work. Being a faculty affiliate of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University allowed me to use the wonderful facilities at Widener Library. I would like to thank John Coatsworth for his help arranging this. The staffs of numerous libraries and archives have proved wonderfully helpful: Archivo General de la Nación; Biblioteca Juan B. Justo; Biblioteca Nacional; Instituto Ravignani; the Confederación General del Trabajo; the Fundación Simón Rodrı́guez; Universidad Di Tella; Widener Library of Harvard University; and the Nettie Lee Benson Library at University of Texas, Austin. Theresa Shaffer, the interlibrary loan librarian at St. Bonaventure , regularly performed minor miracles and did it with grace and speed. Research and writing tends to be a solitary affair, but it cannot be done without support. Friends and colleagues provided critical aid and information and made the process much more enjoyable: Samuel Amaral, Torcuato Di Tella, Mario Gasparini, Donna Guy, Ruth Horowitz, Nils Jacobsen, Juan Carlos Korol, Mirta Lobato, Silvana Palermo, Hilda Sabato, Juan Suriano , Horacio Tarcus, Juan Carlos Torre, and Gardenia Vidal. Estela Domı́nguez, Juan Carlos Korol, Elsa Pintow, and Mauricio Schaikevich shared their city of Buenos Aires with me; they offered friendship and help in many ways. Mariano Plotkin and Piroska Csurı́ gave me the hospitality of their beautiful apartment in Buenos Aires and made me feel truly welcome. Mariano Plotkin, who as always had intelligent things to say, read por- x acknowledgments tions of the manuscript and, as importantly, urged me to go ahead and publish it. Tulio Halperı́n Donghi read a portion and as usual offered sage advice. He continues to inspire me. The two readers for the Press, James Brennan and an anonymous reader, made helpful suggestions. I, of course, am responsible for the opinions and any errors in the text. I would also like to thank Sanford Thatcher at Penn State University Press. Nicholas Taylor has proven to be a skillful and insightful copyeditor. The late Jean Horowitz and the late Morris Horowitz gave me love and offered help in ways they will never know. Sarah and Rachel literally grew up with this book. I hope it turned out as well as they did. Finally, I would like to thank Carol Hirschfeld Horowitz. She read and commented on the whole manuscript; she offered advice; but, most important, she believed in me. She has made the journey a joy. ...

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