Seattle and the Demons of Ambition 1.1 2007/11/26 11:40:10.024 US/Central 2007/12/27 19:28:30.870 US/Central Frederick D Moody fred.moody@rice.edu Frederick D Moody fred.moody@rice.edu Ambition Anne Bill Demons Gates Moody Morgan Murray Seattle Title, Dedication, epigraph, to Seattle and the Demons of Ambition

Once the people here did find a short cut to riches. From a red-brick hotel down the street, Swiftwater Bill Gates, the Dawson plunger, showered nuggets on the Seattleites who gathered in the streets below. —Murray Morgan, 1951 For Anne