Wellfleet Preservation Hall

Join us on Sunday, August 2nd at 7pm for author Don Gillis in conversation with James Carroll as they discuss his book, THE BATTLE FOR BOSTON.

This event is free and open to the public!

Don Gillis, PhD, is a community organizer and longtime activist in Boston. He has advised mayors of several cities and led economic and workforce development agencies. He holds a PhD in urban sociology and the sociology of education and an MA in community sociology from Boston University. He has taught sociology courses such as Boston’s People and Neighborhoods, Race and Ethnicity, Occupations and the Workplace, Racial and Social Inequality in Schools, and the Sociology of HBO’s The Wire.

James Carroll is the author of eleven novels and eight works of non-fiction. He contributed a weekly column to The Boston Globe for 23 years. Across six decades, he has made his home in Boston, where he lives with his wife, the writer Alexandra Marshall.