My thanks to Kathleen Aguero, Veronica Aguero-Hoffman, Robert Aguero-Hoffman, Ashley Alexander, Richard Cambridge, Helen Fremont, Joseph Hoffman, Lee Hope, Joe Mackall, William B. Patrick, Frederick Reiken, Michael Steinberg, Mimi Schwartz, Karen Wulf, and Mako Yoshikawa for reading and commenting on portions of this book.
I want to thank Emerson College, particularly president Lee Pelton, for a leave of absence during which the final draft of this book was written.
As always, I am grateful to “the soup group”—Mike, Thom, Ellen, Steve, and Zoya—for their personal support.
Abundant thanks to my editor, Alexis Rizzuto; this is truly her book, too.