Moving Train Bookclub

Posted July 4, 2007 - 8:29am by MaskedMarauder

Books recommended for upcoming meetings are usually given here. Vote for the one you want to read next.  

This is a progressive bookclub focusing on non-fiction books with a progressive slant introduced by the Newport DFA chapter to encourage public awareness and discussion of contemporary progressive issues. If you want to be informed about the doing of the MTBC, you can subscribe to this work group, and/or you can subscribe to the MTBC email list to receive news and announcements.

 

The club takes its name from Howard Zinn's autobiography which in turn alludes to the aphorism that life is like a moving train; nobody can be neutral.

 

If there are any significant changes in venue or schedule they will be posted here. Heed the Third Chimp here for updates. Accept no substitutes.

Where:

Centro de Ayuda
410 SW 9th St

Newport, OR

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Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think

May 3, 2009 - 11:37am — edstrom
✔ A bookclub selection!

In Moral Politics, the first full-scale application of cognitive science to politics, George Lakoff analyzes the unconscious worldviews of liberals and conservatives, explaining why they are at odds over so many seemingly unrelated issues

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Moving Train Bookclub: Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think

April 13, 2009 - 6:07am — edstrom

This is the regular monthly book club meeting. It will be at the Centro de Ayuda office (basement of the church), Wednesday, May, 13.

When: May 13, 2009 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Where:
Centro de Ayuda
410 9th Street

Newport, OR

How We Decide

April 8, 2009 - 9:36am — edstrom
Current research about human decision making is revealing new insights on how, when and why people make the decisions that we do.
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The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House

December 7, 2008 - 6:10pm — edstrom

A fascinating adventure in political science.  Using psychology, history, politics, sociology and other diverse disciplines, the author examines what it takes to be the President of the United States, the sorts of people who can hold that office and, most interestingly, how their behavior before obtaining office can be used to anticipate the quality of their tenure in that unique office.

It covers US presidents from Taft to Clinton.

On the one hand, there's a lot of interesting history in it. Its especially interesting to hear about the ealry 20th century presidents nobody talks about any more, Taft, and Harding, for example. I knew almost nothing about them, but, in their ways, they were pivotal in defining the modern presidency.

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Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy

December 5, 2008 - 10:11am — edstrom

Its pretty nearly what the title says; abuse of contemporary American labor that is, for all intents and purposes, slavery. It looks at three case studies, migrant farm labor in Florida, welders in Tulsa and sweatshops in Saipan.

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