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Historical Book Discussion - Upcoming Titles
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Gossip Men: J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and the Politics of Insinuation
by Christopher M. Elias
December 2, 2025 - 10:00 a.m.
Elias integrates biographies of the trio with a history of gossip magazines and their tactics--such as insinuation, guilt by association, hyperbole, and alarmism, not to mention cynicism, slang, and photographic manipulation--which all three used to consolidate their power. The story of security state masculinity reached its climax in the Army-McCarthy hearings, which were rife with insinuations and coded threats. Using gossip as a lens, Elias shifts our understanding of the development of American political culture.
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The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War
by John "Chick" Donohue and J. T. Molloy
February 3, 2026 - 10:00 a.m.
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran-turned-merchant mariner recounts how in 1967 he accepted a neighborhood challenge to sneak into Vietnam, track down local friends on the front line and share beer over messages of love from home.
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Kent State: An American Tragedy
by Brian VanDeMark
March 3, 2026 - 10:00 a.m.
Brilliantly recreating the divided cultural landscape of America during the Vietnam War to provide a definitive history of the fatal Kent State University shooting in 1970, a noted historian focuses on the 13 victims, drawing on crucial new research and interviews, illuminating its causes and lasting consequences.
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