In the Shadow of the State: The Politics of Denunciation and Panegyric during the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1940-1958
the history departments of the University of California at Los Angeles, Yale University, and the University of Chicago, and benefited from the queries and comments of these audiences, especially those of Eric Roorda, Dain Borges, Friedrich Katz, and Gil Joseph. I am also very grateful for the extraordinarily rigorous and challenging commentary provided by the anonymous reviewers for HAHR, as well as Kathryn Litherland’s penetrating and adroit editorial hand. Julio César Santana and Andrew Apter inspired key aspects of the analysis; as my research assistant in Santo Domingo, Julio also helped collect much of the material on