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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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