Book Club
Chair, Elaine Rudin: bookclub@lwvsantabarbara.org
Meetings: Thursdays, every 4 to 6 weeks, generally from 2:00 to 3:30 pm or so. Check the Events Calendar for more details.
The purpose of the book club is to help our members keep current on League issues and engage in thoughtful discussions on important topics. All are welcome to attend!
Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, July 21st at 2:00 pm.
The next book will be Flight, How Generation Z is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America by John Della Volpe..
Books we have read recently include There is Nothing for you Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century by Fiona Hill; The Premonition by Michael Lewis; Cut Super Climate Pollutants Now! by Alan Miller, Durwood Zaelke (Zaelke attended our discussion), and Stephen O. Andreson; Blowout by Rachel Maddow; and The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.
Other books we have read include the following:
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson
Cut Super Climate Pollutants Now by Alan Miller, Durwood Zaelke and Stephen O. Andersen (Durwood Zaelke attended our book discussion.)
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Indian/Native American issues of the 1950’s)
How Civil Wars Start: How to Stop Them by Barbara Walter
Lessons From The Edge, A Memoir by Maria Yovanovich