dKos Reading Club: Choose next month's reading

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Tuesday August 16, 2005 · 2:40 PM PDT

2005/08/16 · 14:40

Update [2005-8-17 1:30:29 by dKos Reading Club]: The poll results are in. For next month, we will read The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twentieth Century by Robert McChesney. The discussion will take place September 10. (Don't forget to subscribe to the club if you don't want to miss it!) Please email me if you'd like to be the moderator.

If you missed the second installment of the DailyKos Reading Club (and most of you did!), it took place yesterday when we discussed Frederick Clarkson's excellent book Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy.

Anyway, I am going to be optimistic and try to continue the club for at least one more month. Having decided that, we now need to pick next month's reading. Below the fold is a table of readings that have been suggested in the past and a poll where you can vote on your favorite for next month.

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Monday August 15, 2005 · 2:23 PM PDT

2005/08/15 · 14:23

(First, my apologies for posting this discussion diary so late.)

This is the second installment of the newly formed "DailyKos Reading Club". This "club" is just forming and all are welcome to participate---even people who have not yet read this month's reading. In this diary, we'll be discussing this month's reading. Then in a diary to be posted tomorrow we will discuss and vote on a reading for next month.

Reading to be discussed this month: Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy by fellow Kossack Frederick Clarkson.
This month's discussant: shock.

As well as being very educational (in my opinion, it should be required reading for democrats!), this month's reading is highly relevant to the current battle for the SCOTUS nomination. So I believe many Kossack's might like to check it out. And, since we are fortunate enough to have the author himself participating in the discussion (assuming I wasn't too late in posting this!), it should be an especially informative one!

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Monday August 15, 2005 · 9:42 AM PDT

2005/08/15 · 09:42

(Note/warning: this is a non-diary... it's just an announcement. Save your time and skip it if you aren't involved with the dKos Reading Club.)

Due to some unforseen circumstances in "the real world" (actual <gasp> work, an unscheduled meeting all on top of some family issues to take care of), I'm going to be late in posting the discussion diary for this month's reading for the reading club.

I should be able to get it posted by 2:30 CST.
I hope some of you will come back then.

Sorry about this!

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Thursday August 11, 2005 · 12:01 AM PDT

2005/08/11 · 00:01

It's not too late to participate in the DailyKos Reading Club for this month. We are reading Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy. We will be discussing this on August 15th in an open diary to be posted around noon CST.

Mark your calendars! (Or better yet, subscribe to "dKos Reading Club" so it will show up on your hotlist.)

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Saturday July 16, 2005 · 9:37 AM PDT

2005/07/16 · 09:37

Update [2005-7-17 2:49:22 by dKos Reading Club]: The reading for next month will be Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy by Frederick Clarkson, a member of the DailyKos community who will also participate in the discussion! (Very cool.) Read his post for instructions on how to order it if you have trouble finding it.
I look forward to next month's discussion on August 15! Hint if you subscribe to diaries by "dKos Reading Club" (by clicking the "Subscribe" link just above this update), then whenever we're discussing a book or voting it will show up in your hotlist. Please email me (address in the "dKos Reading Club" account profile) if you want to be the discussant.

As a few of you might have noticed, yesterday we had our first installment of the new dKos Reading Club. And while I can't say that I was overwhelmed at the participation (no disrespect meant to those who did), I think I'm going to try to keep it going for at least one more month.

Having decided that, we now need to pick next month's reading. Below the fold is a table of readings that have been suggested in the past:
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Friday July 15, 2005 · 11:24 AM PDT

2005/07/15 · 11:24

Welcome to the first installment of the new DailyKos Reading Club!

Update [2005-7-16 12:52:44 by dKos Reading Club]: The poll for next month's reading has been posted here. Please take a moment to vote.

Club Background

This "club" is just forming and all are welcome to participate -- even people who have not yet read this month's reading. (In future months, though, we will encourage people to have at least read some of the assignment prior to participating... but this month is special!)

For this first month, we will try to follow the tentative procedures set forth by shock in a diary proposal about the club last month.

Reading to be discussed this month: The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness by Karen Armstrong.
This month's discussant: shock

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