

We thank our editor, Wendy Loggia our publisher, Beverly Horowitz and their team at Random House and our agent, Laura Peterson, at Curtis Brown Ltd. Anna Deavere Smith’s plays Fires in the Mirror (New York: Anchor Books, 1993) and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (New York: Anchor Books, 1994) were inspirational. We gained much from Tony Horwitz’s Confederates in the Attic (New York: Pantheon, 1998).

Thanks especially to the students, faculty, and administration of Franklin High School, Franklin, Tennessee the Williamson County (Tennessee) Public Library the Museum of Television and Radio, Los Angeles, and the First Amendment Center, Nashville. WE ARE INDEBTED to the many people who granted us interviews in the course of our research.
