Interested in joining a group to read and discuss stimulating books? League Book Group meets the first Thursday of odd-numbered months at 2:30 pm, and is now meeting virtually to maintain social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, by Jill Abramson
League Book Group will discuss "Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts" at the Conference Room, University Place Library, 3609 Market Pl W, University Place, 2:30 pm on November 5, 2020
Good Economics for Hard Times, by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
League Book Group will discuss "Good Economics for Hard Times" at the Conference Room, University Place Library, 3609 Market Pl W, University Place, 2:30 pm on January 7, 2021
Viking Economics, by George Lakey. League Book Group discussed "Viking Economics" on September 3, 2020. Read Chuck Jensen's review here.
The Creation of Patriarchy, by Gerda Lerner
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, by Elizabeth Rush.
Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall+and Those Fighting to Reverse It, by Steven Brill
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution, by John Paul Stevens
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
February 7, 2019: It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America By David Cay Johnson
March 7, 2019: How Democracies Die, by Steven Levitsky
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal, by Aviva Chomsky
The Soloist,A Lost Dream, An Unlikely Friendship, and the redemptive Power of Music; by Steve Lopez
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism, by Robin J. DeAngelo
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Climate, by Naomi Klein