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Monday, October 30th at 7:00 pm
Paris 1919 : Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
National Bestseller
New York Times Editors’ Choice
Winner of the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize
Silver Medalist for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations
Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
For six months in 1919, after the end of “the war to end all wars,” the Big Three—President Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, and French premier Georges Clemenceau—met in Paris to shape a lasting peace. In this landmark work of narrative history, Margaret MacMillan gives a dramatic and intimate view of those fateful days, which saw new political entities—Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Palestine, among them—born out of the ruins of bankrupt empires, and the borders of the modern world redrawn.
History 2023 Book List
January - East West Street by Philippe Sands
February - The Greatest Beer Run Ever by John "Chick" Donohue and JT Molloy
March - The Eagles of Heart Mountain by Bradford Person Simon
April - The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre
May - Elephant Company by Vicki Croke
June - Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon by Robert Kurson
July - The Alchemy of Air by Thomas Hager
August - 1968: The Year that Rocked the World by Mark Kurlansky
September - Bellevue: Three Centuries of Medicine and Mayhem at America's Most Storied Hospital by David Oshinsky
October - Paris 1919 by Margaret Macmillan
November - The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris