Acknowledgements
Ordinarily acknowledgements in “star” footnotes credit legions of people who helped the author put a work together. Without diminishing my appreciation for that help, here I want to thank the stars of this book, who by steadfastly and materially supporting the very idea of this work made it possible to bring it to a finish notwithstanding substantial opposition: Andrea Bessac Maxeiner, Philip K. Howard, Mortimer Sellers, Eric Easton, John H. Langbein and John Berger.