Acknowledgments
I owe thanks to Mary Kittredge, Mark J. McGarry, and Joel Rosenberg for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this book; to Melissa Ann Singer and Beth Fleisher for editing it so well; to Howard Morhaim for handling all the business details with his customary skill; to Janet Aulisio for four marvelous McGill Feighan cover paintings; and of course, to my wife Kim Tchang, for her love and her understanding.