and well over a dozen others—fashioned a particularly productive environment in which this book has been crafted.
Along the way, I have profited from the intellectual stimulation and superb substantive and technical assistance offered by Columbia’s graduate students. Counted among them especially are John Lapinski, Rose Razaghian, Sean Farhang, and Quinn Mulroy, who compensated for my deficiencies in statistical skill and legislative research experience. Each became a coauthor. Each served as a research assistant at the American Institutions Project, housed at Columbia’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, before moving on to assistant professorships, respectively at Yale, Yale, Berkeley, and Syracuse. Other key participants in AIP have been Melanie Springer, Chrissy Greer, Thomas Ogorzalek, David Park, Amy Semet, and Alissa Stollwerk. The project also gained much from its Columbia College and Barnard College research assistants, including Rachel Barza, Donna Desilus, David Goldin, Olivia Gorvey, Elysse Ross, Dennis Schmelzer, Ellen Yan, and, most notably, Seth Weiner, whose detailed legislative histories instructed me in the nooks and crannies of southern congressional preferences and strategies. Thanks also are owed to the institute within which AIP has been housed, for first making it possible for Greg Wawro and me to launch an annual conference on the theme “Congress and History,” from which I have learned much that informs this book.
Over the years, I have spoken about parts of Fear Itself at too many venues to properly name and thank. They may not remember, but I cannot forget the prodding comments offered at these events by Anthony Badger, Brian Balogh, the late Brian Barry, Walter Dean Burnham, James Cobb, Joshua Cohen, Lizabeth Cohen, Daniel Carpenter, Michael Delli-Carpini, Ariela Dubler, Jonathan Fanton, Janice Fine, Morris Fiorina, Jess Gilbert, Michael Goldfield, Andrew Grossman, David Hart, Matthew Holden, Robert Horowitz, Meg Jacobs, Jeffrey Jenkins, Michael Katz, Anne Kornhauser, Margaret Levi, Nelson Lichtenstein, Michael Lipsky, the late Harry Magdoff, Jane Mansbridge, Cathie Jo Martin, Anthony Marx, David Mayhew, Uday Mehta, the late Robert K. Merton, Sidney Milkis, Gary Mucciaroni, Carol Nackenoff, Norman Nie, Anne Norton, Alice O’Connor, Ann Orloff, Benjamin Page, Sunita Parikh, Kim Phillips-Fein, Paul Pierson, Frances Fox Piven, Gretchen Ritter, Eric Schickler, the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ellen Schrecker, Theda Skocpol, Stephen Skowronek, Rogers Smith, Bat Sparrow, Thomas Sugrue, Mary Summers, Kathleen Thelen, Richard Valelly, Eric Wanner, Dorian Warren, Margaret Weir, Heather Williams, William Julius Wilson, John Witt, Erik Olin Wright, Julian Zelizer, and Olivier Zunz.
I owe a distinct obligation to Martin Shefter, who, by enticing me into a project concerning international influences on American political development, persuaded me that I had to devote more time and words than I had intended to the global dimensions of the New Deal. I also am indebted to the librarians and collections at the remarkable research libraries of Columbia University and Cambridge University; and to Fred Coccozzelli, Benjamin Fishman, Maura Fogarty, Jessica Olsen, and Cheryl Steele, who hauled books, photocopied articles, checked data, and otherwise lent support to this project.
When much of the penultimate draft was complete, Brian Balogh convened an extraordinary helpful session at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia, at which three brilliant scholars—David Kennedy of Stanford University, Daryl Scott of Howard University, and Richard Valelly of Swarthmore College—offered detailed and uncommonly helpful comments and criticisms. Further, once I had a full draft, Alan Brinkley, Eric Foner, Michael Janeway, William Janeway, Alice Kessler-Harris, James Patterson, and Richard Valelly read and commented in detail either on all or on large chunks of what I had written. So you
Along the way, I have profited from the intellectual stimulation and superb substantive and technical assistance offered by Columbia’s graduate students. Counted among them especially are John Lapinski, Rose Razaghian, Sean Farhang, and Quinn Mulroy, who compensated for my deficiencies in statistical skill and legislative research experience. Each became a coauthor. Each served as a research assistant at the American Institutions Project, housed at Columbia’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, before moving on to assistant professorships, respectively at Yale, Yale, Berkeley, and Syracuse. Other key participants in AIP have been Melanie Springer, Chrissy Greer, Thomas Ogorzalek, David Park, Amy Semet, and Alissa Stollwerk. The project also gained much from its Columbia College and Barnard College research assistants, including Rachel Barza, Donna Desilus, David Goldin, Olivia Gorvey, Elysse Ross, Dennis Schmelzer, Ellen Yan, and, most notably, Seth Weiner, whose detailed legislative histories instructed me in the nooks and crannies of southern congressional preferences and strategies. Thanks also are owed to the institute within which AIP has been housed, for first making it possible for Greg Wawro and me to launch an annual conference on the theme “Congress and History,” from which I have learned much that informs this book.
Over the years, I have spoken about parts of Fear Itself at too many venues to properly name and thank. They may not remember, but I cannot forget the prodding comments offered at these events by Anthony Badger, Brian Balogh, the late Brian Barry, Walter Dean Burnham, James Cobb, Joshua Cohen, Lizabeth Cohen, Daniel Carpenter, Michael Delli-Carpini, Ariela Dubler, Jonathan Fanton, Janice Fine, Morris Fiorina, Jess Gilbert, Michael Goldfield, Andrew Grossman, David Hart, Matthew Holden, Robert Horowitz, Meg Jacobs, Jeffrey Jenkins, Michael Katz, Anne Kornhauser, Margaret Levi, Nelson Lichtenstein, Michael Lipsky, the late Harry Magdoff, Jane Mansbridge, Cathie Jo Martin, Anthony Marx, David Mayhew, Uday Mehta, the late Robert K. Merton, Sidney Milkis, Gary Mucciaroni, Carol Nackenoff, Norman Nie, Anne Norton, Alice O’Connor, Ann Orloff, Benjamin Page, Sunita Parikh, Kim Phillips-Fein, Paul Pierson, Frances Fox Piven, Gretchen Ritter, Eric Schickler, the late Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Ellen Schrecker, Theda Skocpol, Stephen Skowronek, Rogers Smith, Bat Sparrow, Thomas Sugrue, Mary Summers, Kathleen Thelen, Richard Valelly, Eric Wanner, Dorian Warren, Margaret Weir, Heather Williams, William Julius Wilson, John Witt, Erik Olin Wright, Julian Zelizer, and Olivier Zunz.
I owe a distinct obligation to Martin Shefter, who, by enticing me into a project concerning international influences on American political development, persuaded me that I had to devote more time and words than I had intended to the global dimensions of the New Deal. I also am indebted to the librarians and collections at the remarkable research libraries of Columbia University and Cambridge University; and to Fred Coccozzelli, Benjamin Fishman, Maura Fogarty, Jessica Olsen, and Cheryl Steele, who hauled books, photocopied articles, checked data, and otherwise lent support to this project.
When much of the penultimate draft was complete, Brian Balogh convened an extraordinary helpful session at the Miller Center of the University of Virginia, at which three brilliant scholars—David Kennedy of Stanford University, Daryl Scott of Howard University, and Richard Valelly of Swarthmore College—offered detailed and uncommonly helpful comments and criticisms. Further, once I had a full draft, Alan Brinkley, Eric Foner, Michael Janeway, William Janeway, Alice Kessler-Harris, James Patterson, and Richard Valelly read and commented in detail either on all or on large chunks of what I had written. So you
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