Modernizing Repression: Police Training and Nation-Building in the American Century

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Many people have assisted me over the years in writing this book. First, I thank the archivists and staffofthe libraries I visited, including the National Archives; Michigan State University archives; the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson presidential libraries; and Carlisle Barracks Military Archives; and at the National Archives in Lusaka, Zambia, where I found some interesting material on u.S.-Zambian relations during a visit to the country not primarily related to the research. Second, I thank Sergeant Tony Sanders of the Kansas City Police Department for providing me with documents on Byron Engle's tenure with the department; Gary Wilkinson of the Indiana State Police for providing documents on a number ofthe Indiana troopers who served with the Office ofPublic Safety; and Patricia Harrington ofRichmond, Virginia, for taking the time to put together materials for me about her father, Jeter Williamson, who served for over a decade in the global police programs. I also wish to thank to the University of Tulsa and the Oklahoma Council of Humanities for supporting my research with a number of grants and Dean Tom Benediktson and department chair Tom Buoye for their encouragement and for assisting me to obtain a subvention to help cover production costs. My colleagues in the history department also deserve thanks, as do Andy Lupardus, Tamra Stansfield, and staffs at the University of Tulsa library and the Bucknell University library, who assisted me in tracking down rare documents and books. Brett Reilly, who went on to become a Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, served as my research assistant while I was at Bucknell and was very helpful in locating materials at the Kennedy Library, National Archives, and Carlisle Barracks. Sam Redmond and Matthew Pembleton provided valuable research assistance in Berkeley and in College Park, Maryland, and Jared Eberle and Michael Juen assisted me in going through WikiLeaks documents. Kirsten Weld and Sinae Hyun assisted me with material from their own research on Guatemala and Thailand. Georgina Sinclair provided material on Afghanistan, and Marieke Bloembergen provided information on Indonesia . She also invited me to a panel at the Association of Asian Studies conference in Hawaii in 20ll, which stimulated a number ofthe ideas expressed in the book. ix Sam Brawand and Jill Oglesbee assisted with the manuscript preparation. Clark Dougan, senior editor at the University ofMassachusetts Press, helped to shepherd the book from its infancy and provided valuable comments on rough drafts. I am grateful for his support for my work. Carol Betsch and the staff at the University of Massachusetts Press were as usual a great pleasure to work with. Amanda Heller did yeoman's work as copyeditor, helping to improve the writing and catching many small errors. The peer reviewers for this study, Jennifer Fronc, Alfred W. McCoy, and Martha K. Huggins, offered extremely valuable insights that helped me broaden my analysis and improve the book. Christian G. Appy was an additional reader who provided excellent feedback. I am very grateful to have had the assistance of such a gifted group. I give extra thanks to McCoy for reiterating his advice in various conversations. His richly detailed and pathbreaking scholarship is a seminal influence. Many other outstanding scholars, including Mark Selden and Michael Schwartz, took an interest in my book and provided invaluable commentary on articles and chapters which led to its improvement. Further thanks go to David C. Engerman, Michael Willrich, Kyle Longley, Jerry Lembcke, Hannah Gurman, Murray Polner, Brad Simpson, Richard Waller, Leslie Patrick, Fred Branfman, Noam Chomsky (who promptly answered several e-mail inquiries and made detailed and insightful comments on articles of mine related to this book), and Jack Tobin, who provided valuable editing at an early stage. Finally, I thank Margaret Kalufianya for her warm hospitality during my extended visits to Silver Springs, Maryland, to work at the National Archives, and my family for their support, including my parents and wife, Ngosa, and daughter Chanda. x Left Running Foot ...