The Broken Heart of America Book Discussion

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Zoom Book Club
First Discussion on Tuesday, June 23 @ 7 PM
Starting Tuesday, June 23rd at 7 PM, our next book will be Walter Johnson's 'The Broken Heart of America'. Book description and links to get the book below. If you would like to join, please sign up by clicking on the following link, and you will be taken a form where you will need to enter you name and email address. We have not decided how much of the book should be read by 6/23, so stay tuned! Zoom links and information will be provided once you have signed up.

 

"A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike -- a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States."

If you have questions, please contact Ben Rosensweig at (email hidden; JavaScript is required)