A Journey Through History

In November we will be covering Pre-republican china to read a drastically new interpretation of China’s last Empress who ruled china behind the scenes (the only way a woman could) from 1861 her death in 1908.

Our October book also deals with Middle Eastern History and brings us forward 300 years from the year 687 to 1187, to the Third Crusade.

A spirited discussion marked our June meeting between defenders and opponents of former President Richard Nixon. However everyone criticized the slanted presentation by the authors, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan in ‘The Arrogance of Power’.

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The group will be reviewing “Rise to Greatness: Abraham Lincoln and America’s most Perilous Year.” This month by month political and military history begins on January 1, 1862 just nine months after Lincoln’s election with a 37% popular vote (the lowes

We urge you to read this fine book which thanks to NLS we discuss below: Double cross: the true story of the D-day spies DB 75277 Macintyre, Ben. Reading time: 12 hours, 24 minutes. Read by Gregory Maupin.

On June 4, 2013 we will be reviewing “Argo: how the CIA and Hollywood pulled off the most audacious rescue in history” This eight-hour book is more than a gripping true-adventure story, it is an important element in the history of United States Foreign

Our book for April is Batavia’s Graveyard by Mike Dash. NLS lists it as an “Adventure rather than “History” and the plot reads like a suspense novel.

Our February’s Book promises to be an exciting read.

In January we will jump back into the milieu of the 18th century to read about Catherine the Great, Serf’s, Cossacks Court favorites, French philosophers of the Enlightenment and even John Paul Jones.

Our book for November focuses on how Abraham Lincoln a Frontier lawyer and politician who had little or no early contacts with Afro-Americans and was indifferent to slavery came to issue one of the Nations most important edicts to free millions of slav

This October we continue our reading in the Age of Exploration with the saga of Christopher Columbus’s fourth and last voyage which while largelly forgotten by history, was one of his most eventful and greatest.

Alexander Hamilton: A splendid life of an enlightened reactionary and forgotten Founding Father” (a great quote from Kirkus Review of Jan. 15, 2004).

On Tuesday, May 1st the group discussed the book “In The Garden Of the Beasts”, by Erik Larson. Everyone liked the book or planned to read it. The Chief concern was similar things could happen here if we were not careful.

Our book for March will be a bestseller from 2007 by Michael Beschlos.

Our book for March will be a bestseller from 2007 by Michael Beschlos.

We reviewed “letters from Nuremberg” by Senator Christopher J. Dodd.

We will be reading a book on the life of Chief Justice, Earl Warren and his impact on American Society. Because of the length of the book, almost 32 hours, we will be reading it in two sessions.