Acknowledgments

Learned something about ideas from just about everybody I ever taught or worked with. Any attempt to remember and name them all would fail. A sincere but sweeping “Thank you, everyone” must therefore suffice.

Special thanks go to Tom Pflimlin, whose many suggestions helped me improve the first edition of this work; to Henry Caroselli and Mel Sant, whose many suggestions helped me improve this second edition; to Steven Piersanti and his staff, whose enthusiasm and knowledge and skill helped me transform a rough manuscript into a finished book, and a successful first edition into an even better second edition; and to my family, whose faith sustains me.