Senior Adult Men's Book Club
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Join us every second and fourth Thursday of the month as we discuss the book of the month and enjoy a cup of coffee.
2025 Book Choices
1. On Desperate Ground – by Hampton Sidest
Best selling author of narrative history and literary non-fiction. Published in2019, 432 pages.
The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir--the Greatest Battle of the Korean War. Describes how braveMarines — officers and grunts — innovated, organized and blasted their way out of the quagmire resulting from Gen MacArthur's miscalculation and thousands of Chinese soldiers stormed across the border tipping the scales against the allied forces. Many Americans don't realize that to this day theKorean war has not officially ended but is instead an uneasy armistice.
2. The Code Breaker - by Walter Isaacson
560 pages.
A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, andThe Washington Post. The Washington Post account of howNobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolutionary DNA editing tool that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
3. The Catalyst - by Thomas R. Cech
304 Pages.
Once dismissed as a molecule of minor importance, RNA now appears to be the apotheosis of everything essential to life.
4. Amazing Grace - by James Walvin
216 Pages.
The words to “Amazing Grace” were written by a clergyman with his own catalog of sins to repent. The tune we all know came later.
5. Profiles in Leadership, Historians on the Elusive Qualities of Leadership, Oct 2011, 336 pages.
Essays Edited by WalterIsaacson.
6. Lewis & Clark and the Indian Country - by Frederick Hoxie &Jay T. Nelson
376 pages.
Interviews with Native Americans over the past two centuries, secondary literature, Lewis and Clark travel journals, and other primary sources illustrating the complex interactions between settlers and tribal people.
7. The Battle of Brice’s Crossroads - by Stewart L. Bennett
160 pages.
Told through a collection of first-person soldier accounts, the history of this Civil War battle and how the South’s dubious chances of victory were overcome with grit and determination.
8. The Screwtape Letters - by C. S. Lewis
224 pages.
This book has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the unique vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to“Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the wordly-wise devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written.
Best selling author of narrative history and literary non-fiction. Published in2019, 432 pages.
The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir--the Greatest Battle of the Korean War. Describes how braveMarines — officers and grunts — innovated, organized and blasted their way out of the quagmire resulting from Gen MacArthur's miscalculation and thousands of Chinese soldiers stormed across the border tipping the scales against the allied forces. Many Americans don't realize that to this day theKorean war has not officially ended but is instead an uneasy armistice.
2. The Code Breaker - by Walter Isaacson
560 pages.
A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, andThe Washington Post. The Washington Post account of howNobel Prize winner Jennifer Doudna and her colleagues launched a revolutionary DNA editing tool that will allow us to cure diseases, fend off viruses, and have healthier babies.
3. The Catalyst - by Thomas R. Cech
304 Pages.
Once dismissed as a molecule of minor importance, RNA now appears to be the apotheosis of everything essential to life.
4. Amazing Grace - by James Walvin
216 Pages.
The words to “Amazing Grace” were written by a clergyman with his own catalog of sins to repent. The tune we all know came later.
5. Profiles in Leadership, Historians on the Elusive Qualities of Leadership, Oct 2011, 336 pages.
Essays Edited by WalterIsaacson.
6. Lewis & Clark and the Indian Country - by Frederick Hoxie &Jay T. Nelson
376 pages.
Interviews with Native Americans over the past two centuries, secondary literature, Lewis and Clark travel journals, and other primary sources illustrating the complex interactions between settlers and tribal people.
7. The Battle of Brice’s Crossroads - by Stewart L. Bennett
160 pages.
Told through a collection of first-person soldier accounts, the history of this Civil War battle and how the South’s dubious chances of victory were overcome with grit and determination.
8. The Screwtape Letters - by C. S. Lewis
224 pages.
This book has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the unique vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to“Our Father Below.” At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the wordly-wise devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an ordinary young man. The Screwtape Letters is the most engaging account of temptation—and triumph over it—ever written.