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ix Acknowledgments These biographies of three women owe the most to two men. Edward L. Bernays first sat down with me for several days of interviews at age ninetyfour , then invited me back to his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home for two more long, interview-filled visits. Tremendously cooperative, he answered innumerable questions (some of them uncomfortable), offered me many photographs, and let me rummage through voluminous business records and personal materials in his home. Heywood Hale Broun was equally generous with his time, memories, written documents, photographs, and hospitality. The dearth of archival material on his mother and father meant that without his unwavering help I could not have told Ruth Hale’s story. Beyond that, he was so eloquent and erudite that I looked forward to visiting him simply to hear him talk, and occasionally to argue with him. He provided me with countless wonderful quotes. Anne Bernays was an interviewer’s dream: insightful, candid, vastly informative , welcoming, helpful in every possible way. Her sister Doris Held’s different perspective on her mother and excellent guidance in understanding her also helped enormously. Camille Roman provided yet another perspective—that of someone who, as a young woman, was good friends with Doris Fleischman during the last decade of her life, and never stopped being grateful for their friendship. Two other friends, Eleanor Genovese and Carolyn Iverson Ackerman, helped me better under­ stand Fleischman’s Cambridge years. Richard Hale, Ruth’s brother, was close to her, so I was delighted when his daughter, Melissa Hale Ward, set aside a full day to talk with me. But I hadn’t anticipated what a rich font of family history she would be, or the trove of useful materials she would gather up for me to borrow. Her other unexpected gift was helping me schedule an interview with—and later come to know and admire— Richard’s third wife, the magnificent Fiona Hale. My interviews with Ed Kemp let me tell the remarkable story of Jane Grant’s papers finding a home in the University of Oregon Special Collections, even as he helped me better understand William Harris and the Grant/Harris marriage. Harris died before I could thank him for preserving and donating those papers, but fortunately I can thank Special Collections manuscript librarian Linda Long x Anonymous in Their Own Names for repeatedly going out of her way to help me make the best possible use of them. I am indebted, as well, to numerous archivists and other staff members in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division, and the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. My sister Marcy Alyn has avidly cheered me on ever since I first nervously flew off to interview Bernays in 1986. A talented graphic designer, in 2011 she also devoted a great deal of time and energy to arming me superbly well to fight for the best possible book cover. We won, Marcy. Inside, the quantity and high quality of the book’s illustrations owe much to the efforts of Patrick Hale, Anne Bernays, Lesli Larson at the University of Oregon, and Dariel Mayer at Vanderbilt University Press. No friend believed in this book more than Kay Mills, or did more to help me write it and get it published. I will always mourn her unexpected death in early 2011. Many other friends were stalwart in their support and helped in crucial ways, particularly Lori Baker-Schena, Barbara Cloud, Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Terry Hynes, Karen List, Zena Beth McGlashan, and Rodger Streitmatter. My heartfelt thanks to all of them, and to Eli J. Bortz at Vanderbilt University Press. I was lucky that my unusual manuscript made its way into his hands, for he was enthusiastic about it from the start, edited it with skill and sensitivity, and never ceased to be exceedingly knowledgeable, supportive, and patient. ...

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