The Caren and Pinkus Get Smarter Series (CP and PC)

Goal: To read books to expand our perspective, teach us stuff and foster intelligent conversation.

 
CP1: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

7 Weeks, 25 Chapters and 689 Pages

Guided by Caren

 
Guidelines: a minimum of one post and response per week. Conversations are best!

Week 1: Pre-Revolutionary War and the Revolutionary War

January 1-7

Chapters 1-5

Week 2: Before the Civil War- Manifest Destiny in another light

January 8-14

Chapters 6-8

Week 3: Civil War and Reconstruction

January 15-21

Chapters 9-11

Week 4: The “Progressive” Movement

January 22-28

Chapters 12-15

Week 5: WAR, what is it good for?

January 29- February 4

Chapters 16-18

Week 6: 1970’s and the beginning of our lifetime

February 5-11

Chapters 19-21

Week 7: Rethinking Clinton; the 2000 elections

February 12-18

Chapters 22-Afterword

PC1: Book TBD by Pinkus starts 26 February