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Book Group: Past books

Book Group Information

A list of books selected and read by this book group from 2008 to 2013 can be found here. For recent books, see below.

02/16/2021 - 1:00pm How Change Happens

How does social change happen? What makes social movements take off?

01/19/2021 - 1:00pm Injustices: The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

In this powerful indictment of a venerated institution, Ian Millhiser tells the history of the Supreme Court through the eyes of the everyday people who have suffered the most from it.

12/15/2020 - 1:00pm Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America

A gripping in-depth look at the presidential election that stunned the world

11/17/2020 - 1:00pm You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why it Matters

When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you?

10/20/2020 - 1:00pm These Truths: A History of the United States

A groundbreaking investigation that places truth itself―a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence―at the center of the nation’s history

09/15/2020 - 1:00pm These Truths: A History of the United States

A groundbreaking investigation that places truth itself―a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence―at the center of the nation’s history

08/18/2020 - 1:00pm Outliers: The Story of Success

Location: the Jeff Center in the Old Ashland Armory

From Amazon:

In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different?

07/21/2020 - 1:00pm How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt

Is our democracy in danger?

06/16/2020 - 1:00pm Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst, by Robert Sapolsky

Location: the Jeff Center in the Old Ashland Armory
Second half of book.

From Amazon:

Why do we do the things we do?

04/21/2020 - 1:00pm Behave: The Biology of Humans at our Best and Worst, by Robert Sapolsky

Location: the Jeff Center in the Old Ashland Armory
First half of book.

From Amazon:

Why do we do the things we do?

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