I want to thank the many people who helped me research, illustrate, and edit this book.
These historians, librarians, archivists, journalists, documentary filmmakers, and educators suggested subjects and helped me find material: John Noble Wilford, Carla Rahn Phillips, William Keegan, Laura Guadazmo, Jim Baker, Alfred F. Young, Ursula Lamb, Anne Kaplan, Howard Zinn, Wayne Coleman, Johnathan Stayer, Albert Nofi, Alfred Padula, Joel Rubin, Richard Strassberg, Ray Routhier, Cathy Nelson, Rutherford Withus, Steve Zeitlin, Amanda Dargan, William Ferris, Hal Cannon, Patricia Roy, Duncan Todd, Beth Miller, Charles Blockson, Catherine Gurry, Kim Harris, Reggie Harris, Bev Grant, Sally Rogers, Dick McDonough, Steve Grossman, Dan Simberloff, David Wilcove, Stephanie Philbrook, Peter Gribben, Susan Campbell Bertoletti, Fred Gray, Mike Ringring, Steve Thornton, Jeff Yip, Michael Finley, Michael Uys, and Georgia Barnhill.
Huge thanks to Cassandra Fitzherbert and her staff at the University of Southern Maine Interlibrary Loan Department for helping me order materials from around the world. Thanks and admiration to master sleuth Paul D’Alessandro of the Portland, Maine, Public Library. He finds material hidden to all other eyes.
Thanks to Shoshana Hoose, Hannah Hoose, Cheryl Nolan, Tina Groeger, Lena Groeger, The Bookies of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, Public Library, Chuck Wills, Elaine Chubb, and Howard Zinn for reading the manuscript.
For letting me interview them, thanks to Carolyn McKinstry, Judi Warren, Phoebe DeHart, Arn Chorn, Colin Pringle, Jessica Govea, Joe Nuxhall, Anna Meyer, Nona Peagler, John Tinker, Kory Johnson, Senator Gaylord Nelson, Harley “Doc” Holladay, and Mary Fister.
Thanks to Alfred Padula and Ricardo Cabezas for translating material from Spanish to English.
Grateful thanks to my wonderful editor, Melanie Kroupa, for five years of creative partnership on this project. Thanks, too, to her history-loving assistant Sharon McBride. Thanks to the countless people who work at historical societies, museums, and archives for helping us find images to illustrate the book, and to Marty Levick, Melanie Kroupa, and Sharon McBride for painstaking and productive image research.
Above all, thanks to Shoshana, Hannah, and Ruby Hoose, for helping and supporting me in so many ways. I hope I didn’t miss too much while I was writing.