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Nancy Howell Lee, better known as Nancy Howell, is a sociologist and demographer. Educated at Michigan State, University of Michigan, and Brandeis University, she obtained her PhD from the Harvard University Department of Social Relations in 1968. Her dissertation was based on the research reported in The Search for an Abortionist. She taught in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto for thirty years, after brief stints at Wellesley College and Princeton University. She is a fellow of the anthropology section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, based on her demographic studies of the !Kung bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. She is retired from teaching, but continues research and writing.

Bertram Gross (1912-1997) was a social scientist, federal bureaucrat, and professor of public policy and political science. During the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, he served as an advisor in the areas of public housing, wartime price controls, small business, and post-war planning. He was the major architect of the original full-employment bills of 1944 and 1945, and of the Employment Act of 1946. The Campaign to Abolish Poverty/Full Employment Coalition now presents the annual Bertram Gross Award in his honor. While working on legislation in Congress and the president's office, he wrote The Legislative Struggle: A Study of Social Combat, which won the American Political Science Association's Woodrow Wilson Prize. Gross contributed to a variety of publications, including the New York Times and Social Policy, where his first piece on Friendly Fascism appeared.

Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer, and researcher. His diplomatic service from 1957 to 1961 included two years of work at UN conferences and the UN General Assembly, as well as two years in Poland. In addition to teaching poetry and medieval literature at Berkeley, he was a

Praise for Friendly Fascism
“At a time of escalating political uncertainty, when the forces of totalitarianism threaten once more to crawl out of the American woodwork, Friendly Fascism is a powerful tool—better yet, a weapon—that can help us avert a distinctly unfriendly future.” —Alvin Toffler
 
“First-rate . . . a fascinating, provocative job. Bertram Gross has written an important book, and it deserves the widest possible audiences.” —Michael Harrington
 
“This is the best thing I’ve ever seen on how America might go fascist democratically. Friendly Fascism offers a very clear exposition of where America is, and how we got there.” —William Shirer
 
Praise for Peter Dale Scott’s Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
“[A] staggeringly well-researched and intelligent overview not only of the JFK assassination but also of the rise of forces undermining American democracy . . . A kind of Rosetta stone for cracking open the deepest darkness in American politics.” —Kirkus Reviews
 
“Highly recommended.” —Library Journal
 
“May well be the most thoughtful and serious-minded of the 2,500 titles on the subject published over the years.” —Toronto Star
 
Praise for The Search for an Abortionist
“A fact-filled journal of the experiences of ordinary, law-abiding women who were determined to get an abortion rather than go through with unwanted pregnancy.” —The Detroit News
 
“A highly specialized and necessarily speculative study of that ‘widespread and uncoordinated activity’ . . . The handling is nonjudgmental.” —Kirkus Reviews