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Alan Bean

Alan Bean leads the nonprofit Friends of Justice, a narrative-based criminal justice reform organization. He has served as an American Baptist pastor and a hospice chaplain.

Books

The power of charismatic narrative

Why has the authority of American elites been swept aside? Historian Molly Worthen argues that it’s because they failed as storytellers.

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