I want to thank Maisie Tivnan, my editor, who brought a fresh perspective to many of the questions and was always a pleasure to work with; Joe Spieler, my longtime agent and friend, who made numerous trenchant comments that kept me on my toes; and Lori Fish, my wife, who has had to put up with more questions than she thought she’d ever endure in one lifetime.
I also want to thank several others who offered helpful comments and suggestions on early drafts of the manuscript, in particular Talia Mata, Susan Bolotin, Julio Gagné, Deborah Patton, Carlos Devis, and Robert Mogel.
And I want to thank Peter Workman for patiently tolerating so many delays in bringing this material into being, and Carolan Workman for her love of questions and her key role in making the project happen.
Finally, I want to again thank those who played a meaningful part in the first edition: John Summer, Michael Cader, David Breznau, Claudia Summer, Don Ponturo, Libby Anderson, Richard Campbell, Ann Cole, Ginny Mazur, Peter Trent, Fred Weber, and Arshad Zakaria. Without their early help, this new edition would not exist. Two of these friends were particularly important as I returned to questioning and began to pull together the new edition: Don Ponturo, who encouraged me in my new effort and helped with the book’s tone; and John Summer, a fellow questioner since my college days, who contributed so much to the earlier question books that his presence is indelibly embedded in the pages of this work as well.