ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Profound gratitude to George Wallace for his enthusiastic storytelling and to his father, Tom Wallace, for thoughtful elaboration. Early thanks to Dan Smetanka for being my first and remarkable editor and for seeing the potential in this book, Elisabeth Dyssegard for her fine contributions, and to my fantastic agent and dear friend Elizabeth Sheinkman for every step of the way. Early help from Helen Schulman, Merrill Feitell, Halle Eaton, and Tanya Larkin was much appreciated. Thanks to Robert Ach for his generous assistance and his interest in this pocket of history. Thanks to Candy Schweder for her family memoirs, and Suzanne Weisman for her interest. In Santa Fe: the impressive Betty Mae Hartman, Thomas Jaehn at the History Archives, Amy Verheide at the Photo Archives, Cynthia Leespring for her tour and conversations, Marilyn McCray at La Posada, Nicholas Potter Books, Collected Works Bookstore, and to Catherine Levy, Walker Barnard, Alexandra Eldridge, and Peter Drake for making Santa Fe not only fascinating but welcoming. I’m grateful to my father, Stuart Hershon, for his appreciation of history and my mother, Judy Hershon, for introducing me to the American Jewish Historical Society and The Leo Baeck Institute, where I had the good fortune to meet Michael Simonson and Anke Kalkbrenner, whose expertise, humor, and patience were invaluable. John Voigtmann, grazie, you are the best kind of gambler. I am indebted to Ellen Umansky, Jenn Epstein, Caroline Wallace, Jen Albano, and Ondine Cohane for their imaginative contributions after reading drafts of this book so carefully, and to my gifted editor Susanna Porter. Thanks also to Jillian Quint, Patricia Nicolescu, and everyone at Random House. Thanks to Clark Buckner for sending books about San Francisco and to every member of the expanding Hershon-Buckner-Smith-McConnell family, as well as Inez Velasquez Guzman. Finally I want to thank my husband, Derek Buckner, for his inspired suggestions and more than I can possibly say.