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acknowledgments ................. This book is the result of many years of work, in the course of which I benefited from the advice and assistance of many people and institutions. Rogers Smith, Marie Gottschalk, and Jack Nagel were particularly helpful in bringing this project to fruition, while Will Harris, John DiIulio, Marissa Golden, and Dick Pious provided encouragement at an early stage. My research benefited from my participation in the Supreme Court Historical Society’s summer program in 2001 and my time as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program in 2003–4. I also enjoyed generous financial support from the Établissement de nouveaux professeurs-chercheurs of the Fonds québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC), as well as Concordia University’s General Research Fund and the H. B. Earhart Foundation. Jean Brown, Eugene Filipovich, Chris Bourne, Kenneth Martin, and Giancarlo Wilson worked as my research assistants at Concordia. Adam Warber served as the discussant for three different conference papers that were based on this work; Daniel Klinghard and Nancy Kassop both provided extensive feedback on early drafts of the manuscript; and the people of the University of Pennsylvania Press were helpful with every aspect of the publication process. I alone am responsible for any errors in the book. Several publishers graciously granted permission for me to use portions of work that I had published previously: the State University of New York Press, the Presidency Research Group Report, Facts on File, and the journals American Review of Politics and White House Studies. Last but certainly not least, I want to acknowledge the invaluable support and assistance of my colleagues, my friends, and especially my family. ...

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