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Reading Groups
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The Reading Groups review and discuss books chosen by the group for group discussion.
Book selections are made on a monthly basis. There are two Reading Groups, each reading a different book. Participation is open to members, associate members, and guests who can participate in one or both groups. Meetings are currently via Zoom
Monday Reading Group
(Group A)
Meets on 3rd Monday of every month at 3PM, via Zoom
Wednesday Reading Group 2024 Final Book List
Wednesday Reading Group
Date | Title | Author | Discussion Leader | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1/3/2024 | The Men Who Built the
Transcontinental Railroad | Stephen Ambrose | Gordon Allardyce | 382 |
2/7/2024 | On Desperate Ground: The
Marines at The Reservoir, the
Korean War's Greatest Battle | Hampton Sides | Roger Timm | 371 |
3/6/2024 | The Ambassador: Joseph P.
Kennedy at the Court of St.
James's 1938-1940 | Susan Ronald | Fred Freeman | 447 |
4/3/2024 | All the Broken Places | John Boyle | Bob Maxfield | 400 |
5/1/2024 | City of Fortune: How Venice
Ruled the Seas | Roger Crowley | Paul Lieberman | 473 |
6/5/2024 | The 1619 Project: A New Origins
Story | Nikole Hanna-Jones | Ashok Gupka | 480 |
7/10/2024 | And There was Light: Abraham
Lincoln and the American
Struggle
| Jon Meacham | Bob Maxfield | 720 |
8/7/2024 | The Luck of the Draw: My Story
of the Air War in Europe | Frank Murphy | Bill Price | 466 |
9/4/2024 | The Pentagon's Brain: An
Uncensored History of DARPA,
America's Top-Secret Military
Research Agency | Annie Jacobsen | Roger Timm | 577 |
10/2/2024 | 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari | Swarn Rajpal | 400 |
11/6/2024 | The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln
and American Slavery | Eric Foner | Roger Timm | 465 |
12/4/2024 | Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of
the Lusitania | Eric Larson | Bill Price | 480 |
1/8/2025 | Better Times Than These: A novel | Winston Groom | Fred Freeman | 411 |
2/5/2025 | Classified: The Untold Story of
Racial Classification in America | David Bernstein | Gordon Allardyce | 186 |
Monday Reading Group
Monday Reading Group 2024 Final Book List
Date | Title | Author | Discussion Leader | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
8/19/2024 | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer | Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin | Bob Maxfield | |
9/16/2024 | John Adams | David McCullough | Roger Timm | |
10/21/2024 | Who Killed Jane Stanford: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceits, Spirits and the Birth of a University | Richard Wright | Doug Koschik | |
11/18/2024 | Co-intelligence: Living and Working with AI | Ethan Molick | Jim Labes | |
12/16/2024 | Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli | Mark Seal | Fred Freeman | |
1/20/2025 | Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning | Nigel Bigger | Gordon Allardyce | |
2/17/2025 | American Lion: Andres Jackson in the White House | John Meacham | Doug Brown | |
3/17/2025 | The House of Jaipur: The Inside Story of India's Most Glamorous Royal Family | John Zubrzycki | Swarn Rajpal | |
4/21/2025 | Germany in the World: A Global History: 1500-2000 | David Blackbourne | Don Haffner | |
5/19/2025 | The Forgotten 500 | Gregory Freeman | Gordon Allardyce | |
6/16/2025 | What Went Wrong with Capitalism | Ruchir Sharma | Paul Lieberman | |
7/21/2025 | The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons of Wealth, Greed and Happiness | Morgan Housel | Bob Stevenson | |
8/18/2025 | The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America | Coleman Hughes | George Stern | |
9/15/2025 | How Elites Ate the Social Justice Mov | Frederick Deboer | Paul Lieberman |
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