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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This is my fifth book. And it's my fifth book published by Carole Baron. Thanks for your
faith and support. Mitch Hoffman, my editor, is the nicest man I know. Is he a great editor?
Read the book. You tell me. Lisa Johnson, publicity director at Dutton—sorry Bill O'Reilly
intimidated you. Jean Anne Rose, the Dutton publicist assigned to me-we haven't worked together
yet, but I'm assuming the best. Art director Richard Hasselberger made the beautiful
cover and wanted badly to de-splotch O'Reilly. Design director Jaye Zimet made the interior
of the book what it is. Production director Bob Wojciechowski turned this thing around in
unbelievable time. Managing editor Susan Schwartz held everything together. Editorial director
Brian Tart, thank you for your editorial direction. And Rick Willett did the copyediting.
Which is why any mistakes are his.
Jonathon Lazear, my agent—I hope this caps off what has been just a great year for
you. Gunnar Erickson, my lawyer, had to jump off some rocks to avoid getting bitten by a
rattlesnake in Yosemite and landed face-first on a boulder. He's been useless to me since.
To Alex Jones and all my friends at the Shorenstein Center, thank you. Alex was
someone I could always come to for advice. To Edie Holway, who supervises the Fellows,
you made my life so much easier while I was at Harvard. Jonathan Moore, who travels the
globe doing development work in the Third World and is an inspiration, was my squash partner
in Cambridge. He's seventy and is almost blind in one eye. Guess who usually won? Me!
Michael Waldman-great having you next door. Tom Patterson—calm down. Richard
Parker—for helping me with Jesus. Nolan Bowie—you gave me too many books. Bob
Blendon—could you analyze the reaction to my book? Nancy Palmer—thanks. Parker, Danielle,
Allison, Karen, and Jamieson, and all the other Shorenstein people whom I've forgotten,
I'll always remember you.
My fellow Fellows. Esteban Lopez-Escobar, I didn't understand a word you said.
Margie Reedy, great documentary. Terry Samuel, see you on the Hill. Mike Tomasky, thanks
for your help and friendship.
The joke at TeamFranken when we needed to know something quick was "Norm!"
That's Norm Ornstein at the American Enterprise Institute. Though AEI is considered a conservative
think tank, Norm is actually further to the left than Noam Chomsky and just fools