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With a light, yet devastating touch, Griffin charts our continued 'wrestling' with democratic ideals--her incisive search for the soul of democracy stirs up pride, despair, and hope. -- Booklist , starred review <br><br><br> Charming and even lyrical. -- Baltimore Sun <br><br> An intellectually satisfying account that shows through the stories of selected historical personalities and her own life that democracy is, and always will be, a work in progress. -- Foreword Magazine <br><br> Susan Griffin's superb prose reveals democracy not as a distant abstraction but as a live, inspiring, and difficult presence shaping us every day, an angel all Americans wrestle with. --George Lakoff, author of Whose Freedom? The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea

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Susan Griffin has won dozens of awards for her work as a feminist writer, poet, essayist, playwright, and filmmaker. She is the author of more than twenty books including A Chorus of Stones, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of an Emmy, a MacArthur grant, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a frequent contributor to Ms. magazine, the New York Times Book Review, and numerous other publications. She lectures widely and is a frequent guest on national and local radio programs. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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