Next book club selection

[Lisa Cohn]

 

The next meeting of the Bloomfield Public Library Book Club will be on Monday, August 4^th from 6:45 until 7:45 PM in the Quiet Study Room.  The topic of discussion will be  Assassination Vacation  by Sarah Vowell. 

 

What do you call a trip around the United States that focuses on the subject of presidential assassinations?  An Assassination Vacation!   Historian and NPR commentator Sarah Vowell visits places associated with the violent deaths of American presidents as well as those connected to the luckless losers who tried and sometimes failed to kill them.  Along with obvious sites like Ford’s Theater and Dealey Plaza, she also tours a few unexpected places. These include the Oneida Community, a religious commune specializing in free love, where Charles Guiteau lived before shooting President James A. Garfield and the prison island of Dry Tortuga, where Dr. Samuel Mudd, sentenced for setting John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg, saved lives during an outbreak of plague.  Vowell’s mordantly funny travelogue offers an approach to American history unlike anything one learned in school.

 

            For further information or to request help in locating a copy of the book club selection, please call the Reference Desk at 973-566-6200, ext 502.          

 

 Admission is free and all are welcome to attend.