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Asch, Chris (1973 - )
Genre: Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction - Scholarly
Chris Myers Asch moved to Maine in 2013 from his hometown of Washington, D.C. when his wife became rabbi of Temple Beth El in Augusta. A graduate of Duke University with a Ph.D. in American History from the University of North Carolina, he is an alumnus of Teach For America and an Echoing Green Fellow. He co-founded the Sunflower County Freedom Project in 1998 and the U.S. Public Service Academy initiative in 2006. He and his wife, Erica, have three children and live in Hallowell.
Selected Bibliography
- Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital (2017)
- The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer- (2011)
