ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Throughout the writing of this book I have been the recipient of the generosity of dozens of colleagues and friends. It gives me great pleasure to acknowledge them here.

Archivists and librarians across the country helped with proficiency, cheer, and patience to fill seemingly endless requests for documents quickly and accurately. These include John Caldwell, Carl Albert Center Archives, University of Oklahoma; Cathy de Lorge, Oregon Historical Society; Deirdre Malarkey, Oregon Collection, University of Oregon; Dionne Miles, Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University; and Mary Jo Pugh, Michigan Historical Collections, Bentley Historical Library. I would like to give particular thanks to the staffs of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, the Harry S. Truman Library (especially Elizabeth Costin Safly and Dennis Bilger), the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, the John F. Kennedy Library (especially William Johnson), the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library (especially Rod Soubers), the George Meany Memorial Archives, the Schlesinger Library (especially Kathy Kraft and Elizabeth Shenton), the National Archives (especially Jerry Hess), and the Library of Congress. The Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor provided desk space and good company for many months while I went through the papers of the President's Commission on the Status of Women. I am deeply appreciative to its devoted personnel, particularly Ruth Shinn.

Many scholars freely shared their work in progress with me: Carl Brauer, D'Ann Campbell, Jo Freeman, Vivien Hart, Frances Kolb, Judith Patterson, Leila Rupp, Verta Taylor, and Patricia Zelman.

For comments and suggestions on various stages of the manuscript, I owe thanks to Marsha Adler, Annette Baxter, Susan Porter Benson, Alison Bernstein, William Chafe, Cynthia Costello, Martha Feldman, Constance Gilbert-Neiss, Charles Hamilton, Anne Hastings, Robert Katzmann, Deborah Kelly, Linda

Kerber, Sheilah Mann, John Morgan, Joyce Murdoch, Marian Palley, Richard Pious, Donald Ritchie, Rosalind Rosenberg, Leslie Rowland, Catherine Rudder, Kathryn Kish Sklar, R. Kent Weaver, Judith S. Weis, Joan Hoff Wilson, and Thomas West.

A number of particularly kind colleagues deserve special thanks for the heroic effort of reading more than one draft of this manuscript and enduring extended discussions about it: Cindy Aron, Patricia Cooper, Jo Freeman, Barbara Melosh, and Leila Rupp. John Gist not only read and commented; he also made the unique sacrifice of listening to several sections read aloud. Rovilla McHenry typed a large part of the final manuscript under pressure of time, but with abundant good humor and consummate skill. I am very grateful to her and to Judy Caruthers, who solved a major production problem.

During the last five years I have worked for the American Historical Association and the American Political Science Association as the Deputy Director of Project '87. They have assisted my revision of this manuscript through their liberal contribution of equipment and space, as well as by providing an intellectually stimulating and supportive collegial environment.

My gratitude to the Brookings Institution is profound. As a research fellow, I received both its financial and intellectual support. The staff in the library (Laura Walker and Susan McGrath), the computer center, and the administrative offices made every effort to accommodate my many requests. I wish above all to thank Martha Derthick, Gilbert Y. Steiner, James Sundquist, and Diane Hodges for countless instances of assistance and encouragement. Generous financial aid came also from the U.S. Department of Labor, which funded many of my traveling expenses, and from the Harry S. Truman Institute, the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, and the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation.

William E. Leuchtenburg directed the dissertation from which this manuscript has emerged. He paid the closest attention to my work, improving it in every respect. His consistent responsibility to his students in his efforts to teach them to write history reveals the highest devotion to his calling as a teacher.

Naomi Schneider at the University of California Press has shepherded this manuscript through the editorial process with

singular sensitivity and warmth. I am indebted to her for her encouragement and her friendship. I also want to thank Ruthanne Lowe for preparing the index and Anne Geissman Canright for her exceptionally careful and intelligent editing—and her tact. Barbara Ras has overseen the production with kindness and efficiency.

Peg Yorkin, in a wonderful gesture of support for scholarship on the history of women, made a gracious donation to the University of California Press to assist its publication of this book.

I wish also to express my deep appreciation to the women and men who played a part in the story I tell and who generously made available to me their written records and their recollections.

Dear friends helped me through the thickets with lots of laughs, lots of solace, and some distance on this enterprise: Cindy Aron, Marsha Adler, Patricia Cooper, Cynthia Costello, Sam Goodman, Rebecca Hirsh, Diane Hodges, Kathryn Allamong Jacob, Elizabeth and Ronald Lantz, Glen Marcus, William Martineau, Barbara Melosh, Lois Rosenblatt, Ruth Ross, Catherine Rudder, Judy Weis, and especially John Gist, who made it possible, for a few crucial weeks, for me to "Write at the Beach," really the only place anyone should write.

My parents, Herbert and Jean Harrison, sustained me with their love and pride, as have the rest of my family: Miriam, Marla, and Leo Seiden; Hannah and Harold Shapiro; Betsy, Gordon, Merissa, and Joshua Bocher; Martin and Anita Harrison; Heidi, Herb, and Bradley Chain; and Louis Hacken, Rose Aronson, and Israel Hacken, whom I keep in memory.

No one helped me more than Richard J. Peppin. From the beginning, he valued my work and he sustained this endeavor in countless ways. I dedicate this book to him with deepest thanks.