Acknowledgments

To my dear friends at AMACOM Books, executive editor Christina Parisi and president Hank Kennedy—thank you both for your support, commitment, and continued friendship as we keep these books coming! To Mary Miller for her outstanding recommendations, suggestions, and incredible attention to detail throughout the copyediting process. Special thanks to Erika Spelman for coordinating all aspects of production so efficiently and thoroughly, both for this project and for a number of others. And to my literary mentor and coach, Adrienne Hickey, who may have retired from AMACOM but still influences me in so many ways she’ll never know.

To the finest legal team and legal minds in the business who helped review select portions of this manuscript ...

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