![]() The manuscript was read critically and indispensably in its final form by Glen Elder, Doug Gower, Carol Z. Hareven, Theodore Hershberg, the late Reuben Hill, Duane Steffey, and Douglas Strong. ![]() In the process of collaboration on closely-related projects, I was taught much of what I know by John Campbell, Glen H. Machine-readable data would have served me hardly at all had I not had the intelligent assistance, in sequence, of Phil Voxland, Director of the Social Sciences Research Facilities Center, University of Minnesota, and John Stuckey, then Director of Computing at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University. That he's been a fan of the idea of this book has mattered to me. Stanley Holwitz of the University of California Press, my editor, has offered patient, shrewd, and encouraging advice to me over quite a long time. It's not welcome help, exactly, but thanks are due. I thank her.Ĭopy editor Sheila Berg has done all that she can to make me sound less like a second-rate Tobias Smollett and more like a writer from my own century. For this book, she typed and carried out some data entry. Tanya Rogers, for two years my secretary, was the best person at any job that I've ever seen. ![]() To cite these institutions is in part shorthand for listing the many individuals I've met thanks to them. On Child Development Research and Public Policy of the National Research Council (National Academy of Science), the Social Science Research Council, and the Social Science History Association. These were daily settings and always mattered a great deal to me, but so, also, in different ways, did the occasional and varying institutional contexts provided to me by the Committee The Minnesota Family Study Center, University of Minnesota, was too. The History Departments at Minnesota and at Carnegie Mellon were both wonderful places for me to work and think. Let the name of Erika Linke, who (coincidentally) departed my initial institution for my current one just when I did, and who has been exceptionally helpful at both, stand for that of a half-dozen librarians to whom I am indebted. Both of my home institution libraries, at the University Minnesota and at Carnegie Mellon University, were supportive, assiduous, and resourceful: without their help, the book couldn't have been. Among specialized libraries, the Institute for Sex Research, University of Indiana, the Minnesota Historical Society, and the Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota, were especially generous in their efforts on my behalf. The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation provided a fellowship during which this book "spun off" a related project. I have elected to acknowledge here only the most prominent, direct, and purposive contributions to the project, for I am sure that readers will realize that I am both thankful to and proud of the larger list of people I might have included. The extent of a list of "intellectual contributors" risks numbness in any readers it might have, and its close overlap with a list of one's friends and the difficulty of deciding at years' remove whether someone's contribution was to the book in particular or to its author's thinking in general produce a dilemma, whether one's inclination is to be inclusive or exclusive. When one has worked as long and hard on an intellectual project as I have on this book, one builds up a lengthy list of people who have contributed to it. Into One's Own: From Youth to Adulthood in the United States, 1920-1975. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1989 1989.
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