ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 

 

I WOULD like to thank my agent, Laney Becker at Markson Thoma, for working so hard to make sure The Candidate made it. I owe you one, Laney. I also want to express my deep and heartfelt gratitude to my editor Joseph Pittman at Vantage Point Books, both for taking a chance with the book and for his careful work in making it as good as it can be. Mike Luongo brilliantly copy-edited the final manuscript and made sure my British English prose was thoroughly and correctly Americanized. I would also like to thank the many people who have helped me write about the bewildering but fascinating and inspiring world of American politics. They include Julian Coman, Paul Webster, John Mulholland, Matt Seaton, Shaun Bowler, Larry Haas, Tracy McVeigh, Janine Gibson, Stuart Millar and many others. Thanks also to my parents, Sandra and David Harris, for all their love and support and my brother, Mark. A final word of gratitude to many friends over the years who have engaged in endless political debates with me that have still, somehow, failed to solve the world’s problems. They include but are far from limited to Simon English, Lee Bailey, Burhan Wazir, Vicky Graham, Helen Jones, David Teather, Imogen Wall, Dave Stoller, Lawrence Siegel, Adi Leshko, Andrew Clark, Peter Alexander, Robin McKie, Mark Townsend, Peter Beaumont, Glen Owen, Francesca Gessner, Mike Green, Gary Shannon, Ian King, Hugh Chow, Tom Campbell, Tim, Sheila and Ellen Herbst and all of the Friday night poker guys in New York.