Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties
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there have been many times while writing that I have felt that the challenge was just too great, my skills as a writer too limited, my understanding of the material insufficient, my ideas too unfinished. One learns, as a writer, not to avoid these feelings but to work through them. So it is perhaps fitting that those feelings of inadequacy should return in my very last day of writing, when faced with the opportunity to acknowledge the contributions of all those who helped me to make this book a reality. Once again, I set myself against what seems to be an impossible task.
I am certain that whatever thanks I can offer here are woefully inadequate, even to those whom I am able to mention by name. To those that go unnamed, please know that my heartfelt appreciation and deepest respect goes out to all who lent their time, labor, intellectual energy, and emotional support to me in the process of writing this book.
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