In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

vii Acknowledgments Although only my name dons the cover of this work, I could not have completed it without the love and support of a great many people . I am most grateful to Michael Kammen, whose advice and support have been indispensable and much appreciated both during my time at Cornell and since I have begun my career as a young historian. As most people in this profession would agree, Michael’s scholarly productivity is a marvel and an inspiration. He is a true and much-loved mentor. I also would like to thank Isabel Hull and Richard Polenberg for their suggestions and criticisms as readers of my work. Their insights served to strengthen the earliest revisions of the manuscript. And I am grateful to the Cornell Graduate School and Department of History for supporting my research during my time there with the Sage Fellowship, Gates Award, DAR Fellowship, Farr Fellowship, Ihlder Fellowship, and Mellon Completion Fellowship. I would also like to thank the New-York Historical Society for awarding me an N-YHS Research Fellowship in January 2002. As I began the long process of working on the book, Leon Fink provided tremendous support. He generously read the entire manuscript and provided sage advice at that early stage of revisions. Several other historians graciously took time out of their busy schedules to read and comment on portions of the work, including three of my colleagues from Hunter College, Benjamin Hett, Karen Kern, and Jonathan Rosenberg. I am particularly grateful to Jon for his “fine-tooth comb” reading of almost the entire manuscript. I extend a special thank you to everyone who attended the February 2007 meeting of New York University’s Center for the United States and the Cold War seminar for reading and discussing my chapter on May Day during the Cold War. I especially thank Michael Nash and Marilyn Young for inviting me to present my work, Richard Greenwald for his extremely helpful comments, and Jennifer Luff for her insights. I would also like to thank Richard Ellis and Kevin Gaines, who as commentator viii Acknowledgments and chair of a panel I participated in during the April 2007 Organization of American Historians meeting offered helpful suggestions for my chapter on May Day in the 1920s. Thanks, too, to Nunzio Pernicone, who generously provided copies of some hard-to-track-down works by Pietro Gori. I am also deeply grateful to Ken Fones-Wolf, Danny Walkowitz, and the anonymous reader for their detailed and thoughtful reports to NYU Press that helped me reshape the entire manuscript into its final form. My editor at NYU Press, Eric Zinner, along with Emily Park, Ciara McLaughlin , and the Press staff skillfully oversaw its transformation into the book. Special thanks to Eric, who from our first meeting was enthusiastic about the project and remained committed to it throughout the entire publishing process. I also must express my appreciation to Barbara Welter. As chair of the History Department at Hunter she has provided unswerving support for my professional development. Thanks to her sponsorship, I participated in City University of New York’s Faculty Fellowship Publications Program during the spring 2006 semester. Not only did the course release provide me with time vital to the final preparations of the book, but the feedback I received there from my fellow CUNY colleagues also helped see the work to conclusion. And I would like to thank CUNY for sponsoring this innovative program for its junior faculty. I am also grateful to the CUNY Research Foundation for awarding me a PSC-CUNY Faculty Research Grant, which enabled me to travel to Chicago a third time and to cover the cost for the wonderful illustrations in the book. And I am deeply thankful to the provost of Hunter College, Vita Rabinowitz, for the grant that helped defray the cost of my publication subvention. Many archivists and librarians assisted me in my years of research. In particular, I want to thank Patrizia Sione and Richard Strassberg at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, M.P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University; Lesley Martin and Bryan McDaniel at the Chicago History Museum; Itty Matthew and the Research Library staff at the New-York Historical Society; the staff of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress; and Gail Malmgreen, Peter Filardo, Donna Davey, and Erika Gottfried at the Tamiment Library/ Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives at New York University. I am especially grateful to Erika, who worked...

Share