Friends, colleagues, students, and family members—most noticeably my husband, my three sons, and my honorary daughter—have put up with me and cared about me as I wrote, and I am grateful. For particular help with this book, I’d like to thank Jessica Baumgardner, Susan Bingham, Ruth Buchman, Rebecca Godwin, Donald Hall, Susan Holahan, Edward Mattison, Andrew Mattison, Zoe Pagnamenta, Joyce Peseroff, Sandi Kahn Shelton, and the tireless Claire Wachtel. Additional thanks go to the Corporation of Yaddo, the New Haven Free Public Library, and the Community Soup Kitchen.
The following books have been especially useful:
Avrich, Paul. Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. Abridged edition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Cavin, Ruth. Trolleys: Riding and Remembering the Electric Interurban Railways. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1976.
Fischler, Stanley I. Moving Millions: An Inside Look at Mass
Transit. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.