ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MANY PEOPLE from different parts of my life have helped bring this book to life. To fully acknowledge all those who’ve contributed to it would be to write a detailed autobiography! But let me instead take a moment to thank those who’ve mattered most.

A thunderbolt hit me when I first laid eyes on Hallie Friedman (neé Boorstyn). Thankfully, I had the good sense to follow my heart to be with her at the University of Michigan and the good luck to succeed in persuading her to marry me. In every part of my life, including the creation of this book, she has been my inspiration, my guiding light, and the very source of my best.

At the University of Michigan I was truly blessed to have Bob Kahn and Noel Tichy as the cochairs of my dissertation ...

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