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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This dissertation has been a long time coming, and there are many people
who have helped me greatly along the way.
First and foremost, I want to thank Teresa Meade, historian, collaborator,
comrade, and companion, whose intellectual, critical, emotional, and material
support in this process have been completely indispensable. As she knows, it was
not always easy. Enough cannot be said in gratitude.
My old friend and intellectual mentor, Ronald J. Grele, deserves enormous
thanks. During my five years working with him at the Columbia University Oral
History Research Office, he did everything possible to give me the time and to
motivate me to finish this project. And he always gave my writing the sharp, critical
reading for which he is well known.
During my long, intermittent career as a dissertation writer, I have had three
thesis advisors, all of whom have my gratitude.
Daniel J. Walkowitz, who saw me through the early stages of a previous
thesis that never got beyond the early stages, has remained a generous,
intellectually stimulating friend and colleague. As a member of the dissertation
committee for the current dissertation, he, characteristically, gave the manuscript a
most thorough and helpful reading.
Warren Susman, who almost everyone involved in the study of U.S. history
recognizes as one of the remarkable minds of recent decades, agreed to advise my
second attempt at dissertation writing. My project was barely started when Warren
passed away. For me, as for many others, he is profoundly and continually missed.
Norman Markowitz, also a teacher and friend from my early graduate
student days, guided this dissertation to completion. I am grateful for all of his
help, but most of all for his enthusiasm over certain portions of my draft at times
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