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Acknowledgments For jogging or supplementing my memory, and occasionally disagreeing with it, my brother, John F. Post, has been indispensable. Cousins have lent a hand as well — Wynona (Post) Bryan, Marvina (Post) Hauger, Crickett (Cannon) Hebert ,HenryPost,DorothyJane(Post)Sanderson, John S. Rike III, Anne Katherine (Rike) Winstead. I also thank the late Roland Blum, William Avery Crawford, Philip Curtin, Doris Dedner, Brig. Gen. (ret) James Dickey, John Guse, Edwina Gilbert Holder, Edward Ingraham, William Kay, Gavin Langmuir, Andrew Mailer, the late Douglas McKee, Robert Nathan, Sally O’Neill, William Pfaff, Sam Reynolds, Peter Riesenberg, William and Nancy Sachse, Carolyn Saunders, Neil Smith, William Craig Stubblebine, Dorothy Worthy. David Lutz, an undergraduate at Claremont McKenna College when I started planning this book, did excellent preliminary research on the 1950s. I am obliged to these institutions for access to documents and published material: in Paris, the American Library, American School of Paris, Benjamin Franklin Documentation Center (U.S. Consulate ), Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (University of Paris, Nanterre), and Centre de documentation juive contemporaine; in Germany, the usareur Military History Office (notably Bruce Saunders) and the usareur Library and Resource Center (both in Heidelberg), U.S. Army Library of Grafenwöhr Post, care Museum (Giessen), and Justus von Liebig University (Giessen); the Bodleian Library and Rhodes House (Oxford University ); the Honnold-Mudd Library of the Claremont Colleges. Friends and colleagues emboldened me to write from the heart and reach out to a wide audience. I am indebted to Mike Bryan (a no less demanding reader for being my second cousin), Robert Faggen, John Keene, Joe Spieler, William Sterling, Richard Sylvester, Rob Urstein, and Hugh Van Dusen. Robert Fossum went through the penultimate draft with great care and perception. Claremont McKenna College granted me the sabbatical leave during which I began this book, and the staff of the college’s faculty support center helped me over many logistical hurdles. At the University of Iowa Press, I gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Al Stone, editor of the Singular Lives Series, as well as Holly Carver and Edie Roberts. My wife, Jean Bowers Post, has encouraged me every step of the way, my best critic as always. My brother, lifelong comrade, understands better than anyone my wanting to tell this story. I dedicate the book to six members of a younger generation who will want to look back from time to time. xiv : Acknowledgments ...

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