CSWAC BOOK CLUB

Purpose:  A members-only group that explores non-fiction and fiction books relating to current topics of interest and books authored by CSWAC speakers

Eligibility:   The CSWAC Book Club membership is currently capped, but a new book club can be started with interested members.

Membership:

• Current Book Club: 15 (optimal size)
• Additional book club(s), appealing to additional members or specific communities of interest, may be formed

Structure:  Monthly potluck dinner hosted at the homes of Book Club members

Discussion Leaders:  One Book Club member volunteers to moderate the discussion for each book

Next Book: The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America by Daniel Okrent

Next Meeting: Wednesday, September 30th, 6:30 pm

Next Host(s):  via Zoom

Moderator: Kathy Klepfer

Sign-Up:  Terry Johnson | tjins@idcomm.com | (719) 219-6710

Previous Book Selections  

• Political Tribes – Group Instinct & the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
• A World in Disarray and The World: A Brief Introduction by Richard Haas
• The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It by Robert Reich)
• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
• Blowout by Rachel Maddow
• Imagining a Great Republic – Political Novels and the Idea of America‘ by Professor Thomas Cronin
• How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Jason Ziblatt
• Viewing/discussion of the film The Laundromat
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
• AI Super-Powers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order’ by Kai-Fu Lee.
• Member’s Choice materials on contemporary issues in sub-Saharan Africa
• Your Loyal and Loving Son, by Horst Fuchs Richardson
• The Perfect Weapon, by David E. Sanger
• Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (international Women’s Day Discussion)
• Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder
• The Man Who Stayed Behind, by Sidney Rittenberg and Amanda Bennett
• The Orphan Master’s Son: A Novel, by Adam Johnson