Woman's Suburban Democratic Club

Political Book Club


WSDC has a long-standing political book club that meets the third Wednesday of every other month at 10:30am at members' homes.  There is a facilitator for each book.  Books relate to American and/or political history.  The last book was The Majesty of the Law by Sandra Day O'Connor.     

The next meeting will be held Wednesday, February 16.  The group will discuss Colonel Roosevelt, the third and concluding volume of Edmund Morris' life of the 26th president.  Details to follow.

New members are welcome.  If you are interested, please contact Estelle Stone at estelles@webtv.net.

 

Sample of past selections:

The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
Woman in Charge by Carl Bernstein
Dreams from My Father; Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
FDR by Jean Edward Smith

The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to 

Get it Back on Track by Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Becoming Justice Blackmun by Linda Greenhouse

The Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

Reagan by Richard Reeves

1984 by George Orwell

The Age of  Anxiety by Haynes Johnson

The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House by John Harris 

Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow

Reason by Robert Reich

They Marched in the Sunlight by David Maraniss

What Went Wrong: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis

Democracy in America by Alexis de Toqueville               

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy

Master of the Senate by Robert Caro

Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President by Helen Thomas

An Hour Before Daylight by Jimmy Carter

Shrub by Molly Ivins

From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas Friedman

Locked in the Cabinet by Robert Reich 

They Only Look Dead by E. J. Dionne

Personal History by Katharine Graham

Master of the Senate by Richard Caro

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 

First in His Class by David Maraniss

Living a Political Life: One of America's First Woman Governors Tells Her Story by Madeleine Kunin 

All Too Human: A Political Education by George Stephanopolous  

Time Present Time Past: A Memoir by Bill Bradley

Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate by Bob Woodward 

Whatever It Takes by Elizabeth Drew

The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman

Fat Man in a Middle Seat by Jack Germond 

Susan B. Anthony: Biography of a Singular Feminist by Kathleen Barry  

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Triumph and Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson by Joe Califano 

Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas

Ronald Reagan The Role of a Lifetime by Lou Cannon  

The Brethren by Bob Woodward

Washington Goes to War by David Brinkley