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vii The World of Academia The acknowledgments for this book are intentionally short. Graduate schools—this work is derived from my dissertation at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge—are notorious for those who help students and those who do not. That said, Meredith Veldman, my dissertation adviser, James Rogers of St. Thomas University and New Hibernia Review, Irene Whelan of Manhattanville College, New York, and James MacKillop of the Syracuse Press deserve special notice. Moreover, as younger scholars conduct research, a love–hate relationship develops with the library/archival world: there are many librarians/ archivists whose competency can be questioned, but there are also stars within the arcane world of catalogued and stored knowledge, and their help greatly added to the insights contained within this book. Without Stephen Gregory, who at the time of writing was the librarian of the Union Theological College in Belfast; Kenneth Henke from the Special Collections at Princeton Theological Seminary; Grace Mullen of Westminster Theological Seminary; and Patrick Robbins (as well as his staff of graduate students—the boys), who directs the Fundamentalism File at Bob Jones University, the thesis developed within this book would have been less innovative. ...

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