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Acknowledgments We would like to acknowledge the valuable contributions of the following people : Samuel W. Anderson, Adrienne Asch, Michael Auberger, Rims Barber, Sylvia Bassoff, Kim Baxter, Elizabeth Benjamin, Philip Bennett, Marcia Bernstein, Frank Bowe, Mary Lou Breslin, Marca Bristo, Dale Brown, Kelly Buckland, Paul Camacho, Dennis Cannon, Daniel Carr, Judi Chamberlin, James Cherry, Ira Cochin, Judith Cohen, Diane Coleman, Gerald R. Costa, Alice Crespo, Bruce Darling, Justin Dart, Anne Davis, Jim Davis, Mary Delgado, Susan Dooha, Marya Doonan, Melinda Dutton, Anne Emerman, Tod Ensign, Robert Fasano , Fred Fay, Keith Frank, Eunice Fiorito, Barbara Fisher, Daniel B. Fisher, A. E. Foster, Lex Frieden, Tim Fuller, Martin Gensler, Ellen Gerson, Stephen Gold, Karen Luxton Gourgey , John C. Gray, Mark Green, Richard Greer, John Gresham, Rachelle Grossman, Beth Haller, Joe Harkins, Florence Haskell, Eileen Healy, Paul Hearne, Susan Henderson, Nelson Hendler, Ilse Heumann, Judith E. Heumann, Alan Hevesi, Olga Hill, Catherine Huynh, Andrew Imparato, Paul Jendrek, Blanche Kwas Johnson, Susan Jouard, Bob Kafka, Lois Kaggen, Martin Katzen, Bruce Alan Kiernan, Sherry Lampert, Nadina LaSpina, Martin Leff, Robert and Toby Levine, Edward Lewinson, Diane Lipton, Edward Litcher, Paul Longmore , Kitty Lunn, Robert Lynch, Nicholas M. and M. M., Sandra Marlow, Carr Massi, Rosemarie McCaffrey, Michael McCann, John M. McNeil, Terence Moakley, Ari Ne’eman, Marilyn Newman, Raphael Nisan, Ellen Nuzzi, David Oaks, Roxanne Offner, Marcia Osofsky , Celeste Owens, Harvey Pacht, Sandra Parrino, Gary Pitts, Keisha Powell, Rami Rabby, James Raggio, Daniel Robert, Edward Roberts, Nancy Rolnick, Phyllis Rubenfeld, Lani Sanjek, Marilyn Saviola, Susan Scheer, Robert Schoenfeld, Carmen Silver, William Skawinski, Eleanor Smith, Mary Somosa, Richard Spiegel, Marvin Spieler, Steven Stellman , Jean Stewart, Paul Sullivan, Karen Tamley, Arthur Teicher, Jim Ward, Marvin Wasserman , James Weisman, Judith Wessler, Harry Wieder, Brad Williams, Charles Winston, Barry Winthrop, Arthur Wohl, Sidney Wolinsky, Alexander Wood, Deborah Yanagisawa, Ernest Zelnick, Barbara Zitcer, and Gerry Zuzze. Special thanks to Michael Ames, for his wise editorial counseling and his continuing encouragement and support; Leonard Fleischer, without whom this book could not have been written—like Faulkner’s Dilsey, he endured; Michael Imperiale, for providing us with supplies and the nourishment we needed to take on and complete this project; the helpful people at Temple University Press—Charles Ault, Jennifer French, Mick Gusinde-Duffy, Tamika Hughes, Gary Kramer, Irene Imperio Kull, Amanda Steele, and David M. Wilson; Lynne Frost and Heather Wilcox, for their assistance in preparing the updated edition; and Yvonne Ramsey, for her patience, editing acumen, and good humor. ...

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