The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties

by Jonathan Kaufman

October 30, 2020, 7:30 am - 9:00 am

An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Jonathan Kaufman.

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Angrynomics

by Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan

December 4, 2020, 7:30 am - 9:00 am

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us experience day in and day out feels increasingly uncertain, unfair, and ever more expensive. In Angrynomics, Mark Blyth and Eric Lonergan explore the rising tide of anger, sometimes righteous and useful, sometimes destructive and ill-targeted, and propose radical new solutions for an increasingly polarized and confusing world. Angrynomics is for anyone wondering, where the hell do we go from here?

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Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir 

by Madeleine Albright

January 22, 2021, 7:30 am - 9:00 am

In this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright—among the world’s most admired and tireless public servants—reflects on the challenge of continuing one’s career far beyond the normal age of retirement.

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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of The American Century

by George Packer

February 19, 2021, 7:30 am - 9:00 am

Brilliant and driven. Self-absorbed and idealistic. A man of enormous appetites and ambitions to match. Richard Holbrooke, an American diplomat and author, played substantial roles in conflicts ranging from Vietnam to Afghanistan. He was admired by some as a peacemaker and detested by others as a troublemaker at a time when the US instinctually acted on the impulse to take the lead on the global stage. Based on Holbrooke's diaries and papers, award-winning author George Packer's has created an intimate portrait of this complex diplomat. The author argues that America's confidence and energy, its reach and grasp, its excess and blindness "were not so different from Holbrooke's."

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March 19, 2021, 7:30 am - 9:00 am

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April 23, 2021, 7:30 am - 9:00 am