CURRENTLY MEETING VIA ZOOM
Meets the 2nd Monday of each month to discuss books that explore issues like racism, progressive politics, environmental activism, and equal rights for all.
Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney
INSTANT #1 BESTSELLER: A gripping first-hand account of the January 6th, 2021, insurrection from inside the halls of Congress, from origins to aftermath, as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution—by the House Republican leader who dared to stand up to it.
In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump and many around him, including certain other elected Republican officials, intentionally breached their oath to the Constitution: they ignored the rulings of dozens of courts, plotted to overturn a lawful election, and provoked a violent attack on our Capitol. Liz Cheney, one of the few Republican officials to take a stand against these efforts, witnessed the attack first-hand, and then helped lead the Congressional Select Committee investigation into how it happened. In Oath and Honor, she tells the story of this perilous moment in our history, those who helped Trump spread the stolen election lie, those whose actions preserved our constitutional framework, and the risks we still face.
Progressives Book Club 2024 Book List:
January - Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchell Plitnick
February - Renegade by Adam Kinzinger, Michael D'Antonio
March - Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy reached the Breaking Point by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
April - Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning by Liz Cheney
May - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 by Rashid Khalid
June - One Nation Under Guns: How Gun Culture Distorts Our History and Threatens Our Democracy by Dominic Erdozain
July - to be determined
August - to be determined
September - to be determined
October - to be determined
November - to be determined
December - to be determined