History Book Club

The History Book Club meets the second Tuesday of every month at 4 pm at the Park City Library. All are welcome. Email Chis Schaefer (chris.schaefer@bataandiary.com) for more information or to get added to the History Book Club email list.

If the book is not available at the Park City Library you can request an interlibrary loan for $1, if you have a Library card. You can get a 10% discount at Dolly's Bookstore (510 Main Street) if you are buying the book as a participant in the Park City History Book Club.

Schedule

July 8, 2008: The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918. Suggested reading:

The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History by John M. Barry. 546 pages. Public health, epidemic disease, and political expediency in 1918.
Flu: the Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata. 352 pages. The quest to find out what caused the epidemic, and could it happen again.
America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918 by Alfred W. Crosby. 352 pages. How could America forget the deadliest epidemic in history?

August 12, 2008: North Korean leaders Kim Ill Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader, by Dae-Sook Suh. 443 pages. Scholarly, thorough look at how Kim Il Sung took over Korea, and passed it on to his son.
Great Leader, Dear Leader: Demystifying North Korea Under the Kim Clan, by Bertil Lintner. 274 pages. How the Kims manage to control and finance the country.
Comrades and Strangers: Behind the Closed Doors of North Korea, by Michael Harrold. 432 pages. Life in North Korea described by an English translator who lived there for seven years.
Rouge Regime: Kim Jong Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea, by Jasper Becker. 328 pages. The Orwellian control and nuclear threat of Kim Jong Il.

September 9, 2008: The Spanish Inquisition.

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