Book Club

SUNDAY AUGUST 30TH
8-9:30AM (COFFEE WILL BE PROVIDED)
SWEDE HOLLOW CAFE

PART I: DISCUSSING THROUGH CH 15: SELF-HELP IN HARD TIMES (PG. 406)

I am surprised by the interest in wanting to discuss A People’s History. There aren’t many spaces to get to talk about history, let alone, non-fiction. So I’ll give the people what they want (the people being mostly me)! This is going to be under the “Hard Cover” label of Soft Cover Book Club which leans more hard non-fiction such as this. Basically, it just comes with some added thoughtfulness for how we approach discussing non-fiction works.

As part of this book club, we are asking members to donate to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. This is an organization of lawyers that provide free legal assistance to immigrants and refugees in Minnesota (and North Dakota). There is no minimum donation required and we just ask that you email a confirmation to softcoverbookclubmn@gmail.com. Also note, not everyone has extra to give, there is absolutely no penalty for not donating although encouraged.

Synopsis for A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

“In the book, Zinn presented a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country".
Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties.
A People's History has been assigned as reading in many high schools and colleges across the United States. It has also resulted in a change in the focus of historical work, which now includes stories that previously were ignored

Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s book “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.’”