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With loving thanks to the many early readers, friends and family, especially Dorian Karchmar, Roger Gillim and Delia Robinson, who have inspired and informed the author and his characters, and to Charles Johnson, his undercover football coach.

And with much gratitude to those invaluable writers and reporters who have been to the places I’ve not (and in some cases would have been too chicken to go to), particularly H.G. Bissinger, for his extraordinary book on Texas high school football, Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team and a Dream; Roger Rosenblatt for his moment-to-moment account of the Harvard strike, Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Wars of 1969; Jennifer Toth for her courageous The Mole People; Heidi Matson for her outrageous memoir, Ivy League Stripper, and David Isay and his crew for their marvelous Sound Portrait of the Sunshine Hotel. Marvin Hightower at the Harvard University News and Public Affairs Office was particularly helpful with school details, and Lois Price with the intimacies of embouchure.

Though Lenny Bernstein comes in for some criticism—as he did in real life—I hope his generous ghost will feel my love, respect and admiration. Special thanks, Lenny, for the gift of Gustav Mahler. And Noam Chomsky, for still looking out for us, Argus-eyed as ever.

Greatest thanks of all go to my editor, Fred Ramey, who has led his people out of bondage into an unbridled, faith-based land.