A Journey Through History

ON January5, 2016 we will discuss the newly released, bestseller The Wright Brothers by Pulitzer Prize winning author David G. McCullough.

On December 1, we will return to the late 19th and early 20th century and the now one-hundred year old debate over the cause of World War One.

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NLS ANNOTATION:
The train to Crystal City: FDR’s secret prisoner exchange program and America’s only family internment camp during World War II
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Russell, Jan Jarboe.
Reading time: 15 hours, 23 minutes.

Our book for September First was ‘A Good Place to Hide’ by Peter Grose (DB81761) WHICH IS read by Julian Elfer. This is a new BARD listing and describes a RARE bright spot amid the horrors of the holocaust .

As usual, we will not meet in July.

ON June 2, in view of recent headlines regarding Blackwater, we will be discussing the controversial issue of mercenary Armies and the Iraq War described in Jeremy Scahill’s bestseller. Backwater

We will be discussing the impact of the invention of the telegraph during the Victorian era and its historically significant parallels with today’s internet

Our book for April is a fast pace best selling account of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 By an editor of Vanity Fair.
NLS SYNOPSYS

we will discuss “the presidency of George Washington” one of the most popular books authored by presidential expert, Forrest McDonald.

In February we leave the Far East and 20th century for the 17th century Dutch Golden Age, the Dutch empire and it’s North American Colony secreted between Boston and Virginia.