Once Mrs. Reagan decided that some response to the book was needed, friends said, supporters ranging from the columnist George F. Will to the talk show host Joan Rivers felt free to rush to her defense.

Its supporters range from United States Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) to Governor Jennifer Granholm (D-MI).

Its supporters range from commentators like Steven Johnson, the editor of Feed (www.feedmag.com), to hip-hop Internet advocates like Douglas Rushkoff, a self-described youth-culture enthusiast who likes to "poke holes in the system" and has always seemed a bit of a techno-utopian himself.

The movement's supporters range beyond the Lindesmith Center and other efforts financed by Mr. Soros.

His supporters range from former Gov. Joe Frank Harris, a white conservative, to United States Representative Cynthia A. McKinney, a black liberal.

His supporters have ranged from Sean McBride, Son of Maude Gonne to Fr John Powell SJ.

His supporters range from Gennadi A. Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party, to Stanislav Govorukhin, a film director and strident nationalist leader.

Their supporters ranged from centrists who supported a moderately capitalist liberal democracy to revolutionary anarchists; their base was primarily secular and urban, but also included landless peasants, and was particularly strong in industrial regions like Asturias and Catalonia.

Susette Kelo's supporters ranged from the libertarian Institute for Justice (the lead attorneys on the case) to the NAACP, AARP, the late Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference and South Jersey Legal Services.