WonkyTonk Group
The Wonky Tonk book club usually reads non-fiction, political and history books. Our next meeting is Friday, July 25th at 6:30 pm in the bookstore.
Current Book
The bestselling author of “No Logo” argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for 50 years.
Past Books:
Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind, by Gary Marcus
In Spite of The Gods: The Rise of Modern India, by Edward Luce
Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? by James Sheehan
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405, by John Darwin
Black Mass, John Gray
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Oliver Sacks
The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright
Blackwater, Jeremy Scahill
Identity and Violence, Amartya Sen
Conservatives without Conscience, John Dean
Don’t Think of an Elephant, George Lakoff
What’s the Matter with Kansas?, Thomas Frank
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
The Fourth Turning, William Strauss and Neil Howe
Merchants of Immortality, Stephen S. Hall
Collapse, Jared Diamond
The World is Flat, Thomas L. Friedman
Pathologies of Power, Paul Farmer
People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Active Liberty, Stephen Breyer
Holy War, Karen Armstrong
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
The End of Faith, Sam Harris
On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips
Murder in Amsterdam, Ian Buruma
Power, Terror, Peace, and War, Walter Russell Mead
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins
First Great Triumph, Warren Zimmermann
Assassination Vacation, Sarah Vowell
Our Inner Ape, Frans De Waal
A Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut
The Culture of the New Capitalism, Richard Sennett
Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks
The Clash of Civilizations, Samuel P. Huntington
