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series of television programs and the telecourse. Benno Schmidt, Jr., dean of the
Columbia Law School and for many years our teaching partner, and Arthur
Miller and Charles Nesson, professors at Harvard Law School, have taught us
constitutional law for many years. Joining this project as moderators were Tyrone
Brown, former counsel of the FCC and now a Washington attorney, and Professor
Lewis Kaden of Columbia Law School. The moderators not only taught us and
others how to teach; they expanded the limits of seminars to new dimensions of
learning and enjoyment. The executive editor of the Media and Society Seminars
and the creator of the hypothetical case studies is Stuart Sucherman. His stamp
is on every minute of all 13 seminars, which were the guideposts for this book.
Robben Fleming is in very many ways the godfather of our project. It was
Dr. Fleming, former chancellor of the University of Michigan and former presi-
dent of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, who asked us whether the Media
and Society Seminars could be fashioned into a series of television teaching tools
on the Constitution. Fleming and Newton Minnow, as consultants to Walter
Annenberg, had persuaded the publisher and former ambassador to invest $150,-
000,000 over a ten-year period in a series of experiments to use television for
higher education. Annenberg's faith in the potential of television as a vital teach-
ing instrument is a continuing challenge to those of us who believe that it can be
more than "lights and wires in a box."
Elizabeth McCaughey, a historian who specializes in the Constitution and
its origins, accelerated the background research for the book and the course we
teach. C.C.N.Y. Professor George McKenna, who wrote the the teaching guide to
the series, gave us insight and assistance on many of the issues in the book.
Richard Mark, a son and an attorney, and Howard Gutman, a former law clerk
of Justice Stewart and now a Washington attorney, painstakingly read over chap-
ters and made valuable suggestions.
Authors in search of historical quarry are dependent on libraries. We are
particularly grateful to: Philip Oxley, Janice Greer, Sam Cohen, and Jorene Rob-
bie of the Columbia Law School Library; Wade Dores, Steven Toth, and the staff
of the Columbia Journalism School library; Roger Jacobs of the United States
Supreme Court Library; Ralph Monico and Carl Christianson of the St John's
University Law School Library; Sally Hand, Librarian Assistant at the United
States Court House in Foley Square; and Fife Symington, Maryland Historical
Society.
Natalie Foster Paine, Fred Friendly's assistant, coordinated the typing and
organization of the many drafts of these chapters. As in all projects, she is the
person who kept our heads above paper.
We owe a special debt to Bert Lummus of Random House, who believed in
this book as much as we did, and to Jennifer Sutherland, project editor on the
book, who kept us on target for deadlines, accuracy, and clarity.
Ruth Friendly took a sabbatical from teaching to work on this book.
Whether trudging through St. Martinsville, Louisiana, in search of Willie Fran-
cis's grave or digging for Dirk DeJonge's story in Oregon or convincing "Jane Roe"
that it was important for her to share her personal ordeal, Ruth Friendly lent her
grace and vitality to the "little pictures" that shaped these cases. Always at the
ready with tape recorder or word processor, she was the balance wheel of our
delicate balance.
In all major writing projects, it is the authors' families who deserve the
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