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    Acknowledgements

    Many individuals have lent aid and encouragement during The Lucifer

    Principle's  twelve years of research.  I owe debts to more than I can mention.

    To Dr. Rollin Hotchkiss, professor emeritus at Rockefeller University, Dr.

    Magda Gabor Hotchkiss, Timothy Ferris, Don Cusic of Middle Tennessee

    State University, Hester Mundis, Ron Van Warmer and Randy Van Warmer,

    Charles M. Young, Jr., Bradley and Lib Fisk, and Robin Fox, University

    Professor of Social Science at Rutgers University, for patiently reviewing the

    manuscript and making many valuable comments.  To Gao Yuan, historian

    Michael Wood at the BBC, and Cal Tech's John Hopfield for evaluating the

    chapters pertinent to their work.  To the staff of the Ingersoll Library for the

    thousands of times they helped unearth bits of esoterica in the seven stories

    of their stacks.

    To those who listened patiently as the concepts came spilling out:

    Patrice Adcroft, former editor of Omni (who also provided invaluable Care

    packages of research materials); Bob Guccione, Jr., publisher and

    editor-in-chief of Spin Magazine; Bob Kubey of Rutgers University; the late

    Dr. Milton Plesur of the History Department at the University of Buffalo;

    Timothy White; Stephen Holden of The New York Times; Ken Emerson, then

    of  The New York Times Sunday Magazine; Mike Sigman, publisher of LA

    Weekly; Jim Henke, of Rolling Stone;  Grace Diekhaus of 60 Minutes; Liza Wing

    of New York Woman; Alan Weitz of Details; Rona Eliot and Carla Morgenstern

    of The Today Show; John Mellencamp (who not only listened, but brought my

    attention to the quote from Ecclesiastes that heads one of the chapters); Paul

    Simon; Billy Joel; Daryl Hall and Bette Midler.  To Peter Gabriel, whose

    suggestion of a piece of reading material eventually triggered this book's

    title.  To Ralph Gardener, who inveigled sociobiology pioneer Lionel Tiger

    into a three-hour dinner during this book's inception.  To my daughter,

    Noelle Pollet, who transcribed the first 2,000 pages of notes, and to the

    numerous others who transcribed the remaining thousand.  To Jim Stein, at

    the William Morris Agency, for nursing the book along.  And to Leon Uris

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