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James Carroll

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born

January 22, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, The United States

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http://www.jamescarroll.net/

genre

Nonfiction, History, Literature & Fiction

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James Carroll was born in Chicago and raised in Washington, D.C. He has been a civil rights worker, an antiwar activist, and a community organizer in Washington and New York. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1969 and served as Catholic chaplain at Boston University. Carroll left the priesthood to become a novelist and playwright. He lives in Boston with his wife, the novelist Alexandra Marshall, and their two children.

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Books by James Carroll

Average rating: 3.94 · 1,349 ratings · 236 reviews · 49 distinct works

	Constantine's Sword: The Church and the Jews, A History 4.11 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	My rating:
	An American Requiem: God, My Father & the War That Came Between Us 3.79 avg rating — 236 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power 4.25 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Practicing Catholic 3.84 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The City Below 3.75 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Prince of Peace 3.94 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Secret Father 3.37 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Mortal Friends 4.02 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1978 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World 3.39 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Family Trade 3.47 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1982 — 6 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by James Carroll

“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories because we can't help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence death imposes. We tell stories because they save us.”
― James Carroll

tags: story

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“We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things...but there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.”
― James Carroll

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“Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.”
― James Carroll

tags: memory

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