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Acknowledgments I have been most fortunate in having so many people to thank for offering me advice, guidance, and criticism over the seven years during which this book was written. Let me start with my students at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, those studying social welfare policy, U.S. history since 1920, the Vietnam War, the 1960s, race and ethnic relations, and Holocaust and genocide. They have inspired me to help them recognize that there have been moments when it seemed as though young people could make a difference in this world by making their own history. The University of Pennsylvania Press encouraged me to write this book. Most particularly, Robert Lockhart , the history editor, played a central role in the revising and reconfiguring of what I believe to now be a much superior work. I would also like to thank Managing Editor Alison A Anderson and Assistant Editor Samantha Foster for their advice and assistance. Perhaps my largest debt is to the archivists and librarians who provided me with their gracious and generous aid in my quest to reconstruct the historical record: Dan McCole, archivist at St. Joseph's University Archives; a number of staffers from the Falvey Memorial Library of Villanova University and from the University of Pennsylvania Library; Loretta Treese and Eric Pumroy from Bryn Mawr College Library. A special thank you to archivist Brother Joseph L. Grabenstein, F.S.C. of LaSalle University, a dear and thoughtful man who runs the best small university archive I have ever had the good fortune to use. Also, to those ever helpful staffers at the Temple University Urban Archives, Paley Library: Margaret Jerrido, Brenda Galloway-Wright, George Brightbill, Evan Towle, and Thomas M. Whitehead from the Contemporary Culture Collection. The staff at Haverford College Special Collections Magill Library-Emma Jones Lapsansky, Ann Wetherill Upton, and Diana Franzusoff Peterson-provided me with considerable assistance. Those who have made the Swarthmore Peace 278 Acknowledgments Collection of the Swarthmore College Library so extraordinary and who were essential to my work include Wendy E. Chmielewski, Barbara Addison, and Anne Yoder. The archivists at the State Historical Society ofWisconsin and the University of California at Berkeley were also helpful. My archival investigations began at New York University 's Tamiment Institute Library of the Ernest Holmes Bobst Library, and I remain much appreciative of the assistance I received from Peter Filardo, Gail Malmgreen, and Andrew H. Lee. Certainly my college has been always supportive of my scholarly efforts; it has remained, fundamentally, a teaching institution, but one that recognizes the ways research enriches pedagogy. In particular , I wish to thank our outgoing president, Vera King Farris, and our vice president for academic affairs, David Carr, for their gracious support . To the Stockton faculty-so many wonderful and dedicated teachers!-! just want to say that there is nothing I value more than being considered one of your colleagues. Over the years a number of dear friends and colleagues have been there to provide me with both support and invaluable criticism. Burt Weltman, Jay Mandie, Joan Mandie, Louis Ferleger, Joe Walsh, Josh Markel, Eva Gold, and Stephen Dunn have read all or extensive parts of this manuscript. They bear no responsibility for the results, but I must declare my deepest regard for their friendship and critical support. Good friends tell me that I am strikingly single-minded in focusing on my research efforts. Indeed, I impose the brunt of that intensity upon those closest to me-my family. As such, I ask their forgiveness and express my deepest love for my wife Mary Hardwick, the best public school science teacher in the land, my sister-in-law Emily McDonald, my stepson Nate Zelnick, and my youngest Max Lyons. Over the course of the seven years writing this book, I interviewed in person in most instances, but by phone or e-mail on a few occasions, the following fifty-two people: Frank Ackerman, Tony Avirgan, Tom Barton, Frank Battaglia, Thompson Bradley, Robert Brand, John Braxton, Father Daniel Burke, Ken Campbell, Frank Carner, Judith Chomsky, Adam Corson-Finnerty, Michael DiBerardinis, Bob Eaton, David Eldredge, Rev. Richard Fernandez, Dennis Foreman, Debbie Frazier, Muffin Friedman, Carl Gilbert, Barbara Gold, Eva Gold, Steve Gold, Brother Joseph Grabenstein, Rev. David Gracie, Ira Harkavy Martha Honey, Jean Hunt, Bruce Kuklick, Emma Lapsansky, Jack Malinowski, Gail Malmgreen, Jay Mandie, Joan Mandie, Josh Markel, Joe Mikuliak, Marty Oppenheimer, Dina Portnoy, Jim Quinn, Iz Reivich, Liz Reivich, Carol Rogers, Art Rosenfeld, David Rudovsky, Robert Rutman...

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