Acknowledgments

I feel very fortunate to have been associated once again with two of the top people in the book publishing industry, the inimitable and very perceptive Roger Cooper, who had the courage to publish such a highly controversial book as this one, and his young associate publisher, the extraordinarily gifted Georgina Levitt, for whom I predict the sky is the limit in the world of book publishing.

I also want to thank my secretary, Rosemary Newton, for being of so much assistance to me in the writing of this book. Uncommonly dependable, she not only typed up more than 100,000 words of my handwriting, but in recent years has augmented my research from original sources by providing me, on frequent occasion, with additional, ancillary information from the vastness of the Internet.

Thanks are also in order to my long-time friend and literary representative, Peter Miller.

And of course I want to thank my wonderful wife, Gail, who, as with the writing of all my previous books, sacrificed much time she wanted us to spend together. Always supporting me one hundred percent in my every endeavor, she has unfailingly been my rock of Gibraltar through the years. I’ll never be able to repay her for all she’s done for me.