A Journey Through History

discussing ‘Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s secret battle to save the world‘.

In view of today’s Presidential Hi-Jinks our selection for March seems appropriate.   NLS ANNOTATION The general vs. the president: MacArthur and Truman at the brink of nuclear war DB86009

This book is a history including stories describing the lives of the thousands of African and Indian slaves who labored in the rice and cotton fields of Edward Ball’s families’ many plantations for over 150 years enabling the Ball family to rise from

We wish to cordially invite you to attend our book discussion on the turbulent life of Patty Hurst in a Journey Through History.

NLS ANNOTATION: Hell and good company: the Spanish Civil War and the world it made DB81151 Rhodes, Richard. Reading time: 11 hours, 16 minutes. Read by Bill Burton. War and the Military

In September, we leave the somewhat dry but frightening HISTORY OF THE Cold War Era and nuclear disarmament for the parlors and salons of 17th century Europe and Colonial America with this biography of Louisa Adams the talented wife of the brilliant bu

NLS ANNOTATION: The residence: inside the private world of the White House DB82761

TITLE: The Crusades of Cesar Chavez DB78585 AUTHOR: Miriam Pawel READER: Barry Bernson We will meet on the first Tuesday, February 2,2016 at 9:00 EST. Don Queen queens@pacbell.net

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 DB81065 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.

Everyone liked last month’s book ‘Empress Dowager.’ The book was readable and seemed well documented. However, several of the group said there was too much diplomatic trivia and court protocol cluttering up the narrative in places.