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April 23, 2005

Get a Jump Start on the Reading Club!

What Would Jefferson Do?We will launch the Houston Democrats Reading Club in a couple of weeks. We hope to bring you publications that may have escaped your attention. Marguerite Reed has agreed to lead the Reading Club. We'll be hearing more from her soon.

You may want to get started reading the first selection - an excellent book by Thom Hartmann: What Would Jefferson Do? In addition to his many books, Thom has written may excellent articles for Common Dreams. He is a Project Censored-award-winning, best-selling author, and the host of a nationally syndicated progressive daily radio talk show.

The book has a five star rating on Amazon. Here is one of the customer reviews:

Yes, this is a book about government, about history. Yet over and over again, I felt my heart touched, and on a few occassions, tears welling in my eyes. Thom Hartmann has, by a strange accident of fate, become an extraordinary Jefferson scholar. When you combine the visionary mind of Rennaisance man Thom Hartmann with the revolutionary genius of an earlier Tom-- Thomas Jefferson, you get a book that wakes you up and gets you thinking about what you can do, what the nation and the world need to do to stop the founders of America from turning in their graves and stop the nation's turn toward decreased rights, liberties and freedom.

If you read political books, this is one you don't want to miss. Hartmann may not be as recognizable a name as some, but his ideas stand at least as tall, with the added strength of a unique vision that spans the centuries past and the centuries to come. This is a book that will become a classic people will read 50, even 100 years from now.

Hartmann is also one of the smartest, most informed talk show hosts in America today. He's been ranked among the top 100 in the business. His show can be called liberal, progressive, yet it is civil without nastiness. He says it is aimed at the radical middle.

I listen to his show online every day from 11- 2 (CDT). His knowledge of history is phenomenal and he has an unmatched abiltiy to explain it and relate it to current events. Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont who is expected to run for Jim Jeffords' Senate seat when he retires is a regular guest.You can find out more about Thom and links to listen to his show online at www.thomhartmann.com.

I hope you'll join us for the discussion of this important book. If you wish to purchase the book through Amazon, HCDP will receive a small commission if you purchase through a link from this page.

Posted by Lyn Wall at April 23, 2005 01:45 PM | Permalink

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Democratic bookworms of the world, unite! We will have our very own reading club right here on the HCDP blog. As Lyn has announced above, our first main selection will be Thom Hartmann's What Would Jefferson Do?. The review that Lyn cites is not too effusive: the book is truly that good. I have not quite finished the book, but I have already been amazed at how Hartmann is right on target, clarifying all of the current news stories from a progressive perspective. Please join us in two weeks for the first edition of our reading club!

Posted by: mreed44 at April 25, 2005 11:11 AM

My "list" of non-fiction books to read just got one book longer. Thanks for the recommendation!

If I can get my eyes on this read in time, I'll join in the discussion. Fortunately my nightstand is quite sturdy enough to hold all of these books... now if only my Barnes & Noble budget were as robust!

Posted by: Celeste at April 27, 2005 04:45 PM

Has this discussion on Hartmann's book started yet? I'm about finished and have some comments/questions for the gang.

Posted by: Marc Charendoff at June 6, 2005 10:23 PM

Marc, I'd like to invite you and anyone else that has read or is reading Hartmann's book, WHAT WOULD JEFFERSON DO?, to a breakfast meeting to discuss this. There will be a breakfast/discussion meeting on Saturday, July 2nd at 10:00 am. The discussion will be held at the Daily Grind, located at 4115 Washington Ave. (the cross street is Jackson Hill Street) Members of the Democracy For Houston Reading Group will be in attendance. Everyone is welcome to join our lively discussion with breakfast!

Posted by: Phillip McNutt at June 7, 2005 12:17 AM

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