LWVBCC Book Group

League of Women Voters^®
of Berrien and Cass Counties, Michigan

LWVBCC Book Group

Background. Next Meeting and Current Selection. Previous Selections.

Background

The LWVBCC Book Group was formed in 2005 and has been meeting regularly ever since. We currently meet quarterly in January, April, July and October on a Monday morning in the first half of the month. These are the only meetings that are convened in member homes.

Next Meeting and Current Selection

The next meeting will be on Monday, January 9 at 10:00 am in New Buffalo and the hostess is Lorraine Stepanek. The book is Confidence Men by Ron Suskind, a new bestseller available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble and in Kindle and Nook editions as well.

Previous Selections

We have read some great books!
"Three Billion New Capitalists: the Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East" by Clyde Prestowicz.
"Critical Condition How Health Care in America Became Big Business and Bad Medicine" by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele
"Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People who Think You're Stupid" by Joe Klein
"The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11" by Lawrence Wright. Won 2006 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction.
"Deep Economy" by Bill McKibben
"The Appeal" by John Grisham About judicial elections.
"In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" by Michael Pollan
"The Post American World" by Fareed Zakaria
"The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America" by Jonathan Kozol
"Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture" by Ellen Rupell Shell
"Engaging the Muslim World" by Juan Cole
"The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court" by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
"Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court" by Jan Crawford Greenburg
"Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy" by Louise W. Knight
"Jane Addams: Spirit in Action" by Louise W. Knight
"Twenty Years at Hull House" by Jane Addams
"Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future" by Robert Reich
"The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equality Will Determine Our Future" by Linda Hammond-Darling
"Reclaiming Public Education by Reclaiming Our Democracy" by David Mathews
"The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choices Are Undermining Education" by Diane Ravitch
"Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us" by Mike Rose
"What is Good for General Motors? Solving America's Industrial Conundrum" by Thomas Crumm
"Confidence Men" by Ron Suskind

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