![]() ![]() ![]() It was the summer between fifth and sixth grade. That changed my life, and it nearly ruined everything. True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive that impels them-the desire to do right-is precisely the same. Our years in Nashville contributed immeasurably to this novel.Ī house divided against itself cannot stand. Thanks also to the teens and adults who read drafts of this novel as it progressed, especially Sarah Lodge, Juliet Berman, Maia Gottesfeld, Sofya Weitz, Kat Farmer, Julia McFerrin, and secret weapons Kate Emburg and Maketa Graves. 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. ![]()
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