Acknowledgments

When I pick up a book, among the first things I look for, and read if I find it, is the author's acknowledgments. I like to see who authors' think have influenced them and get a sense of the circles in which authors' travel. Another exercise can also be interesting--finding in which acknowledgements someone is thanked. It reveals something about them, I think. For the record, here are the 25 books I know about, in which, for one reason or another, I am thanked in the acknowledgments:

Candy Gunther Brown, The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880

Sara Day, Coded Letters, Concealed Love: The Larger Lives of Harriet Freeman and Edward Everett Hale

Helen Deese, ed., Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-Century Woman, Caroline Healey Dall

Helen Deese, ed., Selected Journals of Caroline Healey Dall, vol. 2

Peter S. Field, The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority in Massachusetts, 1780-1833

Peter S. Field, Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual

Albert J. Von Frank, The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emerson’s Boston

Charles Eddis, Stephen Fritchman: The American Unitarians and Communism

Jennett Kirkpatrick, The Virtues of Exit: On Resistance and Quitting Politics

Amy Kittlestrom, The Religion of Democracy: Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition

Ethan Kytle, Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era

Katherine Lopez, Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History

Megan Marshall, The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism

Francis MacDonnell, Insidious Foes: The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front

Joel Myerson, Transcendentalism: A Reader

Barbara Packer, ed., Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life [The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. VI]

Barbara Packer, The Transcendentalists

Mark Peterson, The Price of Redemption: The Spiritual Economy of Puritan New England

Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas

Joseph J. Romm, The Once and Future Superpower: How to Restore America’s Economic, Energy and Environmental Security

Joseph J. Romm, Hell and High Water: Global Warming - the Solution and the Politics - and What We Should Do

Joseph J. Romm, Straight Up: America’s Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo

Leigh Schmidt, Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality

Gary Williams, The Hungry Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe

Ronald and Mary Saracina Zboray, Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience Among Antebellum New Englandersb