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ARCC Book Club

Read & discuss: The ARCC Book Club meets periodically to discuss books on politics and modern culture. We recommend the selections shown below as worth reading, and we invite you to join us at our next Book Club meeting. (For more information, contact us at ).

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March 2009
"Welcome to Obamaland:
I Have Seen Your Future and It Doesn't Work"

Author: James Delingpole (columnist for Times of London and The Spectator)
Publisher: Regnery (Jan. 2009, 216 pp.)

Meeting: Thursday, March 19 (7 - 8:30 pm)
Location: Panera Bread

Alexandria Commons shopping center
3201 Duke St., Alexandria
(2 blocks east of Quaker Ln. - see map)
RSVP requested:
Previous selections
January 2009
Inaugural addresses of Republican Presidents
Abraham Lincoln (1865)
Teddy Roosevelt (1905)
Calvin Coolidge (1925)
Dwight Eisenhower (1957)
Ronald Reagan (1981)
George H.W. Bush (1989)
George W. Bush (2001)
George W. Bush (2005)

Meeting: Thursday, Jan. 15 (7 - 8:30 pm)

December 2008
"Grand New Party:
How Republicans can win the working class and save the American dream"

Authors: Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam (Atlantic Monthly)
Publisher: Doubleday (June. 2008, 256 pp.)

Meeting: Thursday, Dec. 18 (7 - 8:30 pm)

August 2008
"The Case Against Barack Obama"
Author: Columnist David Freddoso
Publisher: Regnery (Aug. 2008, 256 pp.)

The unlikely rise and unexamined agenda of the media's favorite candidate.

Meeting: Thursday, Aug. 21 (7 - 8:30 pm)

June 2008
"The Return of History
and the End of Dreams"

Author: Scholar and columnist Robert Kagan
Publisher: Knopf (Apr. 2008, 128 pp.)

A thoughtful review of the international rivalries that define our immediate future and the role that American leadership could and should play.

Meeting: Thursday, June 19 (7 - 8:30 pm)

May 2008
"Party of Defeat:
How Democrats and radicals undermined America's War on Terror before and after 9-11"

Author: Author/activist David Horowitz
Publisher: Spence Publishing (Apr. 2008, 224 pp.)

Meeting: Thursday, May 15 (7 - 8:30 pm)

April 2008
"Real Change:
From the world that fails to the world that works"

Author: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
Publisher: Regnery (Jan. 2008, 310 pp.)

How America can achieve transformational change--from a government of bureaucratic failure to a government that can meet the challenges of the 21st century.

Meeting: Thursday, April 17 (7 - 8:30 pm)
March 2008
"Comeback:
Conservatism that can win again"

Author: Columnist David Frum
Publisher: Doubleday (Dec. 2007, 224 pp.)

How Republicans must evolve in accordance with the challenges and fluidity of contemporary America to win hearts, minds and elections.

Meeting: Thursday, March 20 (7 - 8:30 pm)
February 2008
"Why We Whisper:
Restoring Our Right to Say It's Wrong"

Author: U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Jan. 2008, 280 pp.)

A call for Americans who believe in traditional values to resist the urge to stay silent.

Meeting: Thursday, February 21 (7 - 8:30 pm)
January 2008
"Stealing Elections:
How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy"

Author: Columnist John Fund
Publisher: Encounter Books (Sep. 2004, 210 pp.)

A chilling portrait of our electoral vulnerability.

Meeting: Saturday, January 26 (10 - 11 am)

"Claiming the Mantle:
How Presidential Nominations Are Won and Lost Before the Votes Are Cast"

Author: Prof. Larry Butler (former member, ARCC)
Publisher: Westview Press (Sep. 2004, 208 pp.)

 

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