Reading Liberally: The Nine, and Future Books!

Hey everybody,

Just another reminder: Next Monday, November 17, 2008, will be the next meeting for Reading Liberally: Cambridge. We will be discussing Jeffrey Toobin's "The Nine". As the Obama Administration begins to pick names, one place where they will almost certainly have openings is in the US Supreme Court, probably to replace John Paul Stevens or Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In the context of "The Nine", what sort of justices will Obama choose/be able to choose?

The deets on the meeting:

Monday, November 17, 7 PM, Clear Conscience Cafe (581 Mass. Ave, Cambridge).

(On a side note, I recently learned that another, larger book club happens to be meeting at this same time, so if anyone wants to come early and help me make sure we have chairs for our little table, that would be greatly appreciated :) )

Second, future books. I've gotten some great suggestions, but I wanted to throw it to the floor. I want to send the Harvard Book Store a decent list (I'm thinking next 3+ months after the December book, Curtis Sittenfeld's "American Wife"). We're now at the point where we can shift into a more policy focus, whether that happens to be the power of the presidency (Schlessinger's "Imperial Presidency"), economic questions (Larry Bartels and Kevin Phillips have recent books on the rich/poor gap and capitalism, respectively), health care questions, environmental questions (Al Gore and Thomas Friedman immediately come to mind), and the multitude of books on the situation in Iraq. Any way, I'd love to get some more suggestions for future readings, that we could talk about at Monday's meeting, so if anyone has any thoughts, by all means, send some along.

Have a great week, and I will see you on Monday :).

John

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