Historian Nancy MacLean from Duke University will speak about her book “Democracy in Chains,” and the Crisis of American Democracy, at a Coastal Senior College event held at the Midcoast Friends Meeting, 77 Belvedere Road, Damariscotta, Maine on Friday, March 30 from 1 to 3 p.m. The event is co-sponsored by the Midcoast Outreach and Peace Center of the Midcoast Friends Meeting. The public is invited and the event is free. Time for Q&A will be provided at the end of the program and books will be available through Sherman's Midcoast Bookstore. The author will be available for signing at the conclusion of the program.

Booklist calls “Democracy in Chains,” “perhaps the best explanation to date of the roots of the political divide that threatens to irrevocably alter American government.” The Guardian said: “It’s the missing chapter: a key to understanding the politics of the past half century.” As Diane Ravitch noted in her Dec. 7, 2017 review in the NY Review of Books, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/12/07/big-money-rules/ , it “reminds us why it is important to join with others and take action. An informed public is a powerful public.”

Nancy MacLean is the award-winning author of “Behind the Mask of Chivalry” (a New York Times “noteworthy” book of the year) and “Freedom is Not Enough,” which was called by the Chicago Tribune “contemporary history at its best.” The William Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, she is the immediate past president of the Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA).

For further information, contact Bruce L. Rockwood, co-chair, Coastal Senior College Events Committee, at clan.rockwood@gmail.com