Acknowledgments
There are many people I want to thank for their help along the way in completing this book, Fake News in America. Without their help, this would not have been possible. First and foremost, I want to thank my research assistants at Lehigh University in the Department of Political Science, including Brandon Buscarnera, Rachael Bucci, Claire Foley, and James Carlson. Their assistance in researching the media coverage of fake news was instrumental in completing this book, and I am so thankful to my research team for their help with this multiyear project.
I want to thank my wife, Mary, and my sons, Frankie and Tommy, for their incredible patience in dealing with me and the countless hours, during the semester and over breaks, spent in completing this project. I also want to thank other members of my family, particularly my parents, for their interest in my scholarly writing over the years. To all my family, your support means everything to me, and I can’t thank you enough for always being there. I also want to thank fellow public intellectuals and scholars for their support of my writing over the years, including Jeff St. Clair and Josh Frank at Counterpunch, Paul Street, Terry Thomas, David Masciotra, Manfred Steger, Lauren Langman, Amentahru Wahlrab, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Caliendo, Perle Besserman, Michael Thompson, Holona Ochs, Vera Fennell, Laura Olson, Rick Matthews, and the rest of my department at Lehigh University.
Finally, I want to thank my editor at Cambridge University Press, Helen Barton, for supporting this project. She has been instrumental to this book succeeding throughout, including her general support for the project and her assistance in navigating the peer review and production processes. Propaganda studies is a subject that has often been polarizing in the United States, particularly for a mainstream academic community that views propaganda as something only practiced by “other” countries. Helen’s support and work making US propaganda studies an important part of what Cambridge does means the world to me.
