If We Can Put a Man on the Moon

Acknowledgments

This is the second book the two of us have written together. The first, Revolution at the Roots, was written a little more than fifteen years ago. We are now older and hopefully wiser, but still committed to the enduring challenge of trying to make the great experiment of democracy a raging success.

It is a cliché no less than our title, but this book truly was a team effort. We express our most heartfelt gratitude to all those who assisted in the research, data collection, and manuscript review. This book is immeasurably better for their input, and the authors absolve all such participants for any errors, omissions, or faulty reasoning that found its way into the final product—that stuff is all ours.

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