BOOKCLUB

To add context to our actions, we are now hosting a monthly book club where members can read and discuss books to deepen our understanding of the issues of the day.  Book club meetings are held every 6 weeks. Email Pat Ferris at pat@ferris-associates.com for more information and to RSVP for a meeting.

SELECTED BOOKS

NEXT MEETING

Wednesday, April 25 at 7pm. RSVP pat@ferris-associates.com if you’d like to attend.

BOOKS UNDER CONSIDERATION

Understanding Trump Voters

  • Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
  • Katherine Cramer, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
  • George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

Class/Inequality

  • Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400 Year Old Story of Class in America
  • D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of Family and Culture in Crisis
  • Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Profit and Poverty in the American City
  • Noam Chomsky, Requiem for the American Dream
  • Katherine Cramer, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and theRise of Scott Walker

Race Relations

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
  • Richard Rothstein, Discrimination is Not De Facto

Environmental Issues/Global Warming

  • Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
  • Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope, Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses and Citizens Can Save the Planet
  • Joseph Romm, Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know
  • Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything

Healthcare

  • Elizabeth Rosenthal, An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back

Middle East Relations & Terrorism

  • Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Queda and the Road to 9/11

Thinking Through A Way Past Trump

  • Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough
  • Bernie Sander, Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
  • Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
  • Rev. William J. Barber II, The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear 

How to Have Conversations When Friends Differ

  • Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided By Politics and Religion

Fear & Anxiety as Drivers in Current Politics

  • Sasha Abramsky, Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream
  • Kurt Anderson, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire – A 500 Year History