James Ciment

James Ciment has a PhD in American history from the City University of New York, Graduate Center. He has written and edited numerous books on U.S. history and the history of the developing world, including books on Africa. To research Another America, Dr. Ciment traveled extensively in Liberia and worked as a political monitor there after the first civil war of the 1990s. He currently lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.