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History Book Group Meeting

January 24 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

This month the History Book Group is reading Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson.

 

In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist • PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction Finalist • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Longlist … (Amazon.com description)

Organizer

Gloria Greis, Executive Director
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Venue

Needham History Center
1147 Central Ave
Needham, MA 02492 United States
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