Suffolk Arts + Sciences - Premiere Issue 2007 - (Page 39) tics that cleaved this city in the 1970s. Carroll himself bore witness to the busing crisis. Just out of the priesthood, making his way as a writer, he rode as a volunteer monitor on school buses bringing black children to school in predominantly white neighborhoods of the city. “We rode those buses at 60 miles an hour, with police escort, to avoid having stones thrown at the windows. We were instructed to make all the kids lie down on the floor. That’s how frightening it was.” He responded to these events with anger and shame. “And the shame I felt prompted me to say, ‘I’m going to write a novel that explains why these folks are acting like this.’” This is a measure of the man: The acts of violence by white Bostonians horrified him. He felt shamed personally and acted upon that feeling artistically. The masterful writing that emerged heralded what would become his hallmark as a writer: He invites readers into his life as a way of exploring matters of social and political importance—war, religion, prejudice, redemption. Nowhere does Carroll extend this invitation more generously than in An American Requiem: God, My Father, and The War That Came Between Us, for which he won the1996 National Book Award for nonfiction. Here he depicts a nation gashed on the home front by a war that also alienated him, a peace activist priest, from his father, an Air Force general and director of the Defense Intelligence Agency during the bleakest years of the Vietnam War. “The broadly political is always personal for me,” he writes. “War had come down to the war between us.” Carroll’s hallmark generosity has been at the service of Suffolk University since he joined the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences as Distinguished Scholar in Residence a year ago. Pulled often from his Fenton building office, he addresses many classes on topics ranging from the Vietnam War to Catholic views of stem cell research to Just War theory. He has visited classes of aspiring undergraduate fiction and memoir writers, participated in the campus-wide Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), and spoken at numerous conferences held on campus. Whether invited to read from his latest book, House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power, or to meet with a small group of freshmen, Carroll typically responds, “I would be honored.” The College is honored to welcome James Carroll to its faculty. The fit could not be better. The mind that conjured a Curley incursion into Louisburg Square surely belongs at the University that planted itself on Beacon Hill 100 years ago. Suffolk University scaled the fence of ethnic exclusion, pried open the rarified enclaves of higher education, and threw wide its gates to all qualified applicants. One great renegade on the Hill has gained the friendship of another. Yet as Carroll gazes from his office window at the brick-fronted row houses on Hancock Street, he seems less the rabble rouser than the adoring son of a great metropolis. “I just love this city,” he says. “I am a citizen in love with Boston.” Lauri Umansky is professor of history and associate dean of the College of arts and Sciences at Suffolk University. 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