Author’s Note

I have made every attempt to quote the conversations with people in this book correctly. If I have failed to be exact, I’ve attempted to convey the sense and the meaning. At times I have also quoted letters, and those are verbatim.

In all cases, it is my memory of an event that supersedes the memories of other participants who might have been at the same party. There are no accidents in memory, for memory has its own reasons and its own logic. What I remember is what happened to me as I best recall it.