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vii Acknowledgments Thanks are owed first and foremost to Jennika Baines at Syracuse University Press for the efficiency and support with which she oversaw the volume’s completion. I am also greatly indebted to Annie Barva for her painstaking reading of the manuscript. Kim Akass and Janet McCabe dispensed sound advice and welcome encouragement at the inception of the project. For inspiring discussions on television studies in general and on The Shield in particular, I am deeply grateful to Herbert Garvie, Paul Taylor , Toby Scammell, and—most of all—Lucy Frank. An earlier version of Mike Chopra-Gant’s chapter was published as “The Law of the Father, the Law of the Land: Power, Gender, and Race in The Shield,” Journal of American Studies 41, no. 3 (Oct. 2007): 659–73. ...

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