About the Author

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Lance Carden holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Oregon and was a writer/editor at The Christian Science Monitor. His published works include Witness: An Oral History of Black Politics in Boston (1989), Tuscan Retreat (2013), City of Lions (2015), and Spiritual Exercise (2019). A play, Democracy & Its Demise, was staged in 2018. He has studied abroad at the University of Frankfurt and the Institute for the Study of Politics, Paris.