Acknowledgments.
I would like to thank Nat Sobel, a true gentleman in publishing, who still believes in fighting the good fight for a book. My grat.i.tude also to my brilliant young editor, Hilary Rubin Teeman, who poured her pa.s.sion and intelligence into the project. For a.s.sistance on parts of the ma.n.u.script in its earlier incarnations, I"d like to thank Adria Bernardi, Robert Cohen, and Megan Staffel.