JAMES CARROLL IS SEVENTY AND ONE

JAMES CARROLL 

b. January 22, 1943 

AIR FORCE BRAT 
1960 Graduate 
General H. H. Arnold High School 
Wiesbaden, West Germany 

also 

WRITER 
Fiction and Non-Fiction 

and 
former PRIEST 

James Carroll was in the news recently with a New Yorker profile of Pope Francis ("Who Am I to Judge?"). He also has a column in the Boston Globe ("Sounding the Alarm, Then and Now") on the recently disclosed story of eight anti-war protestors who revealed some of the excesses of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, by means of the burglary of an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, back in March 1971. Edward Snowden is the obvious "Now" to the Media burglary eight's "Then." Carroll is alarmed: "While government overreach is partly to blame for privacy-destroying intrusions into the communications of average citizens, so are unbridled new technologies to which citizens have willingly made themselves hostage." 

JAMES CARROLL, BORN THREE DAYS AFTER JANIS JOPLIN, TURNS SIXTY-NINE

JAMES CARROLL

b. January 22, 1943

JAMES CARROLL

WINNER, NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION (1996)

for

AMERICAN REQUIEM: GOD, MY FATHER,

AND THE WAR THAT CAME BETWEEN US

HIS MOST RECENT BOOK

is

JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM:

HOW THE ANCIENT CITY IGNITED OUR WORLD

OTHERS INCLUDE

HOUSE OF WAR: THE PENTAGON AND

THE DISASTROUS RISE OF AMERICAN POWER

&

SECRET FATHER

(interesting review here & long interview-cum-review here)

CARROLL'S OWN WEBSITE is here