ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I’d like to thank everyone who had a hand in writing this book, but many of them have asked not to be named. They could get in trouble at their jobs, or, far worse, at the places where they temporarily lived. I will thank Byrd Leavell and Carrie Thornton, without whom this book would never have existed, and Julian Pavia, who did such an excellent job editing it. If it fails to please at this point, that’s because I didn’t listen closely enough to what he had to say. As always I would be remiss if I did not thank Alex Lencicki and my very patient wife, Elisabeth Sher.