Index 243It is a really good thing that book acknowledgments are not like the Academy Awards ceremony. Because I'm sure the music would start playing on me before I'd even mentioned my graduate adviser, and I definitely wouldn't get time to thank my husband. Also, I would be seriously underdressed.The first person who must be thanked for helping me to complete this manuscript in a timely fashion is Raphael Benjamin Fermaglich Gold, who knew just when to shut up.A number of institutions provided me with the funding necessary to research and write this book. Fellowships from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University enabled me to conduct my research. The American Jewish Archives and the Feinstein Center for American Jewish History at Temple University awarded me additional funds for research. And funds from the Internal Research Grant Program, the Kussy Scholarship, and the History Department at Michigan State University have allowed me to conduct additional research, as well as to complete the writing of this book.Librarians and archivists at a number of institutions eased the research process considerably. Librarians at the Manuscripts and Archives Division at Yale University, at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection at the New York Public Library were attentive and helpful. I am particularly grateful to archivist Melanie Yolles at the New York Public Library for organizing and helping me to view materials that had been until then unused. Librarians at New York University's Bobst Library, Harvard University's Widener and Lamont Libraries, and the Michigan State University library also facilitated my research.The subjects of this book, as well as their family members, associates, and administrative assistants, have been critical to my research process. I thank Aaron Aronow, George Bellak, Stanley Elkins, Betty Friedan, Robert Jay Lifton, and Joel Milgram for generously giving their time and energy to submit to several long interviews. Moreover, Betty Friedan and Robert Lifton ix | deserve thanks for making their personal files available to scholars, as does Alexandra Milgram, who has made her late husband's papers accessible. I am truly grateful to these men and women for allowing me to pry into their own and their loved ones' lives.My graduate adviser, Lizabeth Cohen, was a crucial presence in the development of this book. She consistently and enthusiastically supported my work, even as I veered farther and farther from her own field of research. Hasia Diner, Thomas Bender, Jeffrey Shandler, and Stephen J. Whitfield offered important criticism of my work while I was a graduate student; I am particularly grateful to Hasia Diner for her comments on parts of the manuscript as it neared completion.Many others have helped me in private discussions and at conferences with both intellectual and practical matters as this project developed, including