Acknowledgements
This book took many paths before it felt like it had become itself, much like me in the writing of it. I am grateful first and foremost to my mother and father for agreeing to talk to me about my brother and for graciously allowing me to use several family photographs, and to Michael Cooper for being my proxy brother, always. Thank you to my sisters, Lorraine, Susan and Clare, for allowing me to use old photographs in which they are featured. Thanks to the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, the New York Public Library Digital Collections and the National Archives in Washington for granting permissions for several archival images. Howard White and Harbour Publishing graciously allowed me to use the beautiful and arresting poem “The Dead Poet” by Al Purdy
