| This book began in 1974 as a dissertation topic emerging from Warren Susman's graduate seminar in cultural history at Rutgers University. Over the years, many friends and colleagues generously have read various versions of this work and offered valuable advice and encouragement. Thanks especially to Daniel Bronson, Susan Bronson, Paul Buhle, Joseph Cady, Harvey Green, Leon Fink, Sue Levine, Norman Markowitz, Jan Rosenberg, Gerald Sider, Fred Siegel, Martin Waldman, Daniel Walkowitz, Allis Wolfe, Irwin Yellowitz, and members of the Columbia University Seminar in American Civilization. |
| I would also like to acknowledge those who have helped in other special ways. I am grateful to my parents, Arlo and Marvene Hilkey, for providing material and spiritual support at critical junctures along the way; to Warren Susman for teaching me to look for meaning in what is common-place; to George Bush for helping me overcome my hesitation in pursuing this project; to all of my colleagues at the City College Center for Worker Education but especially to Leonard Kriegel, Stephen Leberstein, Karl Malkoff, and Ed Quinn for believing that college administrators can and should pursue their intellectual interests and for making it possible for me to do so; to Lewis Bateman at the University of North Carolina Press for demonstrating the persistence and patience that any success writer would applaud; to Katherine Malin at the Press for expert guidance on the last leg of the journey from manuscript to book, to Janis Ruden for research assistance, to Josh Brown and Emily Bronson for photography, to the staff of the New York Public Library General Research Division for unfailing and courteous assistance; and last but not least, to my daughter, Robin Xinping Hilkey, for the love and levity that makes everything worthwhile. |
| This research was supported in part by a grant from the Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Award Program. |
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