<br>Leon F. Litwack is the author of <I>Been in the Storm So Long, </I> which won the Pulitzer Prize in History and the Parkman Prize. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Distinguished Teaching Awards, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Film Grant, and is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History at the University of California, Berkeley.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>