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Completing this project has put me in the debt of several people and institutions. I began working on James Otis not long after starting graduate studies under Peter S. Onuf’s direction at the University of Virginia. Thanks largely to Peter’s able mentoring, a master’s thesis blossomed into a scholarly article and now an edited collection as well.
I first conceived of the project when I was in residence at Liberty Fund as a visiting scholar, and I would like to thank Liberty Fund in general for supporting this project and for providing me with a welcoming environment in which to work for a year. I would also like to thank Laura Goetz of Liberty Fund for helping me see this project through to publication. Laura had both the patience to endure several delays and the vigor to push the project along. I also should thank the Massachusetts Historical Society and its librarian, Peter Drummey, for his assistance.
In preparing the text for publication, I received able assistance from Murray Bessette, then a student of political thought at the Claremont Graduate University, and now assistant professor of government at Morehead State University. Murray did a fine job compiling, organizing, and preparing the text for publication, as well as translating Otis’s occasional lines of French. James Chastek, formerly a student at the Claremont Graduate University, gracefully translated the Latin phrases that Otis sprinkled about his writing. And James Stoner of Louisiana State University helped with the translation of some Latin legal terms.
In addition, I owe a debt of gratitude to Nicholas Canny, the director of what is now the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway, for providing me an academic home for a couple of years, part of which I spent on this project, and to the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences for the fellowship that took me to Ireland. I also am indebted to the Henry Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College and its then-director, Charles Kesler, for providing invaluable assistance and support as I brought this project closer to completion. I owe thanks to the Claremont
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Institute and its president Brian Kennedy for giving me a congenial place to hang my hat in Claremont. In addition, I am grateful to the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, and its director, Robert P. George, where I was the Garwood Visiting Fellow during the 2009–10 academic year, during which I did some of the finishing work on the product.
