A Journey Through History

SUBJECT: Journey Through History will meet on Tuesday, November 5 2019
It is time for a change in time and place, so let’s try14th century feudal Japan featuring an African ex-slave, Portuguese Jesuit missionaries and it’ mostly all true.

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Custer’s trials: a life on the frontier of a new America DB83009
Stiles, T. J. Reading time: 23 hours, 47 minutes.
Read by Arthur Morey.
Biography
War and the Military

Last month’s book (Saboteur) was enthusiastically received last night although the group criticized the “Keystone Cops” meets the Gang who couldn’t shoot straight” performance by the U.s. government and the German spies.

Last night we reviewed the best selling, rather steamy account of a famous painter and his young model during the Dutch Golden Age.

David Faucheux takes our focus away from the Founding Fathers and the Washington Beltway with this STORY which provides a glimpse into the structured, middle class life during the 17
th

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The field of blood: violence in Congress and the road to civil war DB92299
Freeman, Joanne B. Reading time: 11 hours, 21 minutes.
Read by Joanne B. Freeman.
U.S. History

In deference to the New Year’s Holiday, in January only, we will meet on the second Tuesday, January 8, 2019 to discuss the first nine chapters (13 hours) which covers the era prior TR’s Presidential inauguration which occurred on September 14, 1901

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The big ones: how natural disasters have shaped us (and what we can do about them) DB90799
Jones, Lucile M. Reading time: 9 hours, 22 minutes.
Read by Lucy Jones.
Science and Technology