I would like to thank Mary Reynics, my editor at Crown Forum, for her consistently excellent insights into how to make RATD more relevant, more engaging, and sharper. She’s a delight to work with as a friend and as an editor, and doesn’t hesitate to whack out large blocks of my text with a cold-eyed efficiency that’s slightly terrifying but ultimately makes for a more crisp and illuminating read.
My agent, Christy Fletcher, is, as always, a rock star, and I literally couldn’t do this without her. She has the ability to look at five hundred of my random ideas and grab the ones that work, every time.
As always, the love, support, tolerance (so much tolerance), and outstanding humor of Molly, Nora, and Andrew are as amazing to me every day as they are unstinting. I’m truly blessed with a family who are all loving, brilliant, and strong as hell.
I also treasure the love, encouragement, and occasional shit-checking of a circle of personal and political friends who keep my head from growing too large (have you seen this thing? It’s gigantic to start with) and who are all in this fight in their own ways.