As editors of this volume, our greatest debt is to our contributors, without whose expertise, enthusiasm for the project, and willingness to engage in multiple rounds of comments and revisions, this book could not have been written. We are indebted to the Warner Fund at the University Seminars at Columbia University for its generous help in publication. Many of the ideas presented here have benefited from discussions in the University Seminar on Full Employment, Social Welfare and Equity. We wish to thank the participants in those seminars for their helpful feedback. Dana Bliss, our editor at Oxford University Press, provided enthusiastic support throughout. We are also grateful to the archivists at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Library for help in locating photographs and accessing documentary material and to the reference librarians at Adelphi University who assisted in tracking down critical sources. To Richard Wolff, we owe thanks for his initial encouragement in undertaking the project and suggestions for whom we might turn to for certain chapters. Helen Ginsburg provided helpful feedback on the proposal and has been a valuable consultant throughout the preparation of the manuscript. Marguerite Rosenthal and Frank Stricker gave us critical feedback on some of the chapters as well as recommendations of sources. We also thank June Zaccone for her help in leading us to resources. Other colleagues with the National Jobs for All Coalition have been invaluable allies over the years in the struggle to realize the vision of a more just and sustainable world for which the New Deal, at its best, stood.