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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to a host of mentors, colleagues, friends, and family for their support of this project. For their incisive critiques and model scholarship, I most wish to thank George Marsden and Mark Noll. Many others, including John McGreevy, Fr. Thomas Blantz, Scott Appleby, Kevin Miller, Steven Miller, Michael Kazin, Tim Erdel, Donald Dayton, Tuan Hoang, Perry Bush, Joel Carpenter, Darren Dochuk, Tommy Kidd, Jeff Bain-Conkin, Brantley Gasaway, Axel Schäffer, Tim Gloege, Raully Donahue, Heath Carter, John Haas, Eli Plopper, Bob Brenneman, James Regier, Bryan Smith, John Turner, and participants in the Colloquium on Religion and American History, also offered helpful direction and encouragement. For guiding this project to completion, I wish to thank my terrific editor Bob Lockhart at Penn Press. For printing early versions of this project, thanks to the Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Religion and American Culture, Society, and Communal Studies. For funding and resources, thanks to the University of Notre Dame Graduate School for a Zahm Travel Grant that funded visits to archives in Pasadena, Berkeley, Palo Alto, Chicago, and Philadelphia; the Hesburgh Library inter-library loan staff; and the Notre Dame history department. For access to archival materials, I wish to thank Ron Sider and Naomi Miller at the offices of Evangelicals for Social Action at Palmer Seminary; Bob Schuster, Wayne Weber, and Paul Ericksen at the Billy Graham Center Archives; David Malone, Keith Call, and David Osielski at Wheaton College Special Collections; Nancy Gower at Fuller Theological Seminary; Geoffrey Reynolds at the Joint Archives of Holland at Hope College; and Lucinda Glenn at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. I also wish to thank those in Kentucky whose encouragement helped finish this book. At Asbury, thanks to Jon Kulaga, Steve Clements, Glen Spann, Burnie Reynolds, David Wheeler, David Cecil, Mike Cuckler, Steve Offutt, and Josh Overbay. At the 376 Acknowledgments Mennonite church in Lexington, thanks to Jim Miller, Sam Augsburger, Laban Miller, Karen and Steve Dobson, Chris Kiesling, and Mike Simpson. For providing hospitality and companionship during research trips, thanks to Galen and Hollie Smith, Joshua and Sarah Crosley, Doug and Pam Swartz, Joe and Kathy Swartz, Paul Snezek, Walt and Virginia Hearn, and Jim and Mary VanderKam. I also wish to thank several friends and family members for their help in caring for our children during particularly crucial stages of this project: the saintly Rosa Borntrager most of all, but also David Banga, Calvin Borntrager, Gaby Brenneman, Phyllis and Steve Swartz, and Sharon and Carl Weaver. Finally, I wish to thank my parents, Steve and Phyllis Swartz, for sparking my intellectual curiosity and reading every word of this book as it was drafted. Their witty, thoughtful comments made revisions tolerable. I also wish to thank my four children, Andrew, Jon, Benjamin, and Anna, all born in the five years this project gestated. Their first smiles, steps, and words—and thousands of diaper changes—happily punctuated days when writing got dreary. Most of all, I wish to thank my wife Lisa, lovely in form and spirit, for her unfailing encouragement and nurture. I dedicate this book to her. ...

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