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To my wife, Barbara Newman, for her love, encouragement, good humor, ideas, and editing.

To my children—Josh, Carmen, and Corey—for keeping me young and strong in spirit.

To Bernadette Aguilar for keeping her cool in the chaos of typing and retyping the manuscript.

To my parents, Sydney Harris and Rose Fine; my stepfather, Jerry Atin-sky; and my brother, Jerry Harris—for living in a manner consistent with their beliefs in racial and economic justice.

To my uncle, Fred Fine, for surviving McCarthyism and four years underground with his profound intellect and humanity intact.

To Stan Zaks for making our vision of a radical, multiracial community law collective a reality.

To Jeff Wilkinson and the Harp-Tones for “Sunday Kind of Love.”

To Bob Feinglass, Karen Jo Koonan, Ricky Jacobs, Peter Haberfeld, Ellen Zucker, Michael Griffith, Seiko Fuapopo, and Richard Ingram for helping me weather the storms of illness and disability.

To Dennis Roberts, Peter Gabel, and Chris Kanios, who created opportunities for me to work and contribute while disabled.

To my special clients, Huey Newton, Stephanie Kline, Stephen Bingham, Ronald Stevenson, and Leonard McNeil, for the courage they showed by fighting back while facing prison.

To my editors, Niko Pfund, Richard Delgado, Despina Papazoglou Gimbel, and Jean Stefancic, for their help and enthusiasm.

To Otilia Parra, Patrick Romero Guillory, Susan Gzesh, Jonathan Mosby, Catherine Carroll, Hazel Weiser, John Brittain, Haywood Burns, Charles Berrard, Dale Minami, George Colbert, Shirley Keller, Steve Saltz-man, Newton Lam, Fred Setterberg, Joe Matthews, Pamela Harrington and Abby Ginzberg, for research, commentary, and encouragement.

And to Nelson Mandela and Che Guevara; Frodo and Sam.