Empire Without Tears: America's Foreign Relations 1921-1933

Warren I. Cohen

Temple University Press

1987

Acknowledgments

 

Three of my friends in the Michigan State University Department of History—John Coogan, Donald Lammers, and Peter Levine—made good faith efforts to improve the manuscript. Chris Rogers obtained five thoughtful and detailed reviews for me. Robert A. Divine, editor of the series, provided excellent advice on revisions. Barbara Allyn, assisted by Ross Gardner and Dr. Victoria Kingsbury, may have learned to use a word processor as she typed the manuscript.

The work of several scholars has been especially helpful to me. A series of brilliant articles, books, and lectures by Michael J. Hogan, Melvyn P. Leffier, and Joan Hoff Wilson have helped enormously in the areas most remote from my own research. John Braeman and William Appleman Williams, perhaps an odd couple, both wrote important articles on the 1920s.

Bernard Wishy, my severest critic when I was an undergraduate at Columbia, said yes when, after tiring of premed and prelaw, I asked him if I might become a historian. Tom Pressly, by his example, taught me that teaching was far more than performing in front of a class. Dick Leopold was wonderfully encouraging during my early years in the profession—and spoiled my children. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Katherine Kinney into the family. Thanks to her, I won't need the royalties from this book for Geoff's tuition.