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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
—Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Ending this book’s journey brings with it reflection from which deep gratitude and heartfelt emotions spring. My debts are many, and the following few paragraphs only begin to express my appreciation to those who were with me on the trek.

Tulio Halperín-Donghi, my dissertation adviser at Berkeley in the 1990s, was a brilliant and world-renowned historian—and he had a big heart. Soon after my first child’s birth nearly twenty years ago, Tulio invited me to lunch at Berkeley’s faculty club to discuss turning my dissertation into what became my first book. When I arrived there, he was waiting for me in the lobby, with a wrapped package in hand. Inside was a stuffed animal—a gift for my newborn daughter, Eva. With a smile, he remarked that the gift came with a caveat: that my wife and I never call her “Evita.” (Those who knew Tulio will most appreciate the Argentine’s quip.) It just so happens, we never have. My other—and first—graduate mentor was Arnold J. Bauer, whose erudition, kindheartedness, sympathetic soul, and humility were even larger than his imposing frame. Arnie’s deep love for Chile and its people is evident in what he wrote, and it also appeared in his eyes when he spoke of that beautiful land on the edge of the earth. Arnie saw a historian’s work not as a vocational pursuit but rather as a pilgrim’s sojourn into the lives of those who wait patiently in the past to teach us something about our humanity. Both Tulio and Arnie passed away while I was writing this book. I am immensely fortunate to have been their student and to have experienced their kindness.

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