Michael Dennis - The Full Employment Horizon in 20th-Century America: The Movement for Economic Democracy

You know you are getting to the end of a project when you write the acknowledgments. It has been a long road, but several people have made the burden lighter and the rewards of research that much more enjoyable. I would like to thank in particular Timothy Horning, archivist at the University of Pennsylvania; Donna McCrae, archivist at the University of Montana-Missoula; Lauren Stark, archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Marsha Mills, archivist at the Hagley Museum and Library, and the staff at the Minnesota Historical Society. For her encouragement, support, and enthusiasm for the project when it was in the hands of another press, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Bridget-Flannery McCoy. For her considerable determination in hunting down key sources and looking up obscure citations, I must not forget to thank Wilma Carty of the Interlibrary Loan Department at Acadia. Conducting research at a small liberal arts university can be challenging at the best of times; Wilma has made it much easier. For their indispensable support, insight, and professionalism, I would like to thank Maddie Holder and Abigail Lane of Bloomsbury Press. Similarly, my gratitude to project manager Shanmathi Priya Sampath for her dedication to this project and patience throughout. Researcher Peggy Ann Brown provided indispensable and meticulous assistance through her work on my behalf at the Library of Congress to which I am very grateful. I would also like to thank Kamlesh Pant for his editorial inputs. In addition Afnan Farooqui exceptly prepared the bibliography and Kelsey McGowan read the entire manuscript with a keen and discerning eye, I am grateful to both.

I would also like to express my gratitude to the three referees who contributed invaluably to the revision of and rethinking about the book. For being a great sounding board and a having terrific insight into the American experience, even though hes a Kantian philosopher, my Acadia colleague and friend, Paul Abela; for his knowledge and insight into modern monetary theory, my Acadia colleague John Murimboh. For comments and conversation on a paper I delivered on women and the movement for full employment in the 1970s, I would like to thank Dorothy Sue Cobble and Shelton Stromquist. For continuing to be an excellent supervisor even years after I graduated as well as a scholar of unparalleled erudition and a great friend, W. Fitzhugh Brundage. Finally, for her indefatigable support, patience, and comradeship, I would like to thank my wife, Melanie. This ones for you.