Acknowledgments

David and Goliath has benefited greatly
from the wisdom and generosity of many
others: my parents; my agent, Tina
Bennett; my New Yorker editor, Henry
Finder; Geoff Shandler and Pamela
Marshall and the whole team at Little,
Brown; Helen Conford at Penguin in
England; and too many of my friends to
count. Among them: Charles Randolph,