Acknowledgments

This volume is sponsored by the Taskforce on the Virtues of a Free Society of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where I am the Carol G. Simon Senior Fellow. Support for it came also from a research fellowship at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich, Germany, held for the fi rst six months of 2009 at the invitation of my longtime friend Dr. Heinrich Meier. Nor must I forget the everyday generosity of Harvard University, where I have essentially spent my life. I am grateful to Kathryn Sensen for invaluable and unsparing criticism of the text served with all due respect. My late wife, Delba Winthrop, who would have been co-author of the book, was ever in my thoughts as I composed it.