[bookshare-discuss] History book club meeting
- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:31:08 -0400
All,
The history book club met tonight, Sunday, July 13, at 9 o'clock EDT.
We decided to postpone the august meeting until September 7, as the book
club leader would be traveling in August and unable to attend. We will
still read Nicholson Baker's, "Human smoke: The beginning of World War Two
and the end of civilization."
We also decided to read for October's meeting the following:
In the devil's snare: The Salem witch crisis of 1692, by Mary Beth Norton,
2003.
What follows are my notes from tonight's meeting:
July 13, 2008
Selection: Union 1812: The Americans who fought the second war of
independence, AJ Languth, 2007.
House-keeping:
Reminder of next months selection of Human Smoke
Move August meeting or have Don Queen conduct it?
Selection for September: Arc of Justice, or Triangle: Fire that Changed
America.
Move September meeting to first Sunday of month, or, have Don Queen run
meeting.
Questions:
Does this book change your understanding of any of the major figures of
American history featured in this work?
What trends in American politics and society does the time portrayed here
indicate?
What was the Peggy Eaton affair?
What do you think the author believes is the force that moves history?
Other books to read:
Thomas Fleming, The Duel: Alexander Hamilton Aaron Burr and the future of
America, 1999.
Charles Sellers, The Market revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846, 1991.
Anthony Wallace, The long bitter Trail (Indian removal act of 1830), 1993.
Harry Watson, Liberty and Power: The politics of Jacksonian America, 1996.
Sean Wilents, Rise of American Democracy, and, Chance Democratic.
Number of slave-owning Presidents: 12, eight while in office. Grant was
last to own, Taylor last to own while in office.
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