October 3: Sherrie Marcy, longtime OLLI member and retired school teacher, reviews American Midnight:The Great War, a Violent Peace, and America's Forgotten Crises. Author Adam Hochschild portrays the abuses and extremes that characterized the period after WWI.
October 10: Dan Hunt will discuss The Poor Side of Town and Why We Need It by Howard Husock. The author presents a critique of a century of failed housing reform policies in the United States.
October 17: Dr. John Fredell will survey Walter Isaacson's current offering, The Code Breaker. The book deals with the discovery of CRSPR, the gene altering tool, and its implications in medicine for treating genetic disorders and altering the human DNA.
October 24: Maureen Smith, retired Edina librarian, was intrigued by Carl Sferazza Anthony's new Jacquie Kennedy biography, Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of… with a focus on the former First Lady's adventures abroad and her life as a writer and photographer at a DC newspaper.
October 31: Jennifer Pahika's Re-Coding America: Why Government is Failing in the Digital Age will be reviewed by Steve Birch. The book is a bold call for reimagining how the US government at all levels could create and use digital technology for the betterment of its citizens.
November 7: Kristine Martin is a psychologist using ketamine-assisted therapy in the treatment of PTSD, depression, and other emotional disorders. She will discuss Michael Pollan's ground-breaking How to Change Your Mind, a survey of conscience-expanding experiments with psychedelic drugs. Pollan makes a case for why shaking up the brain's old habits can be therapeutic for people facing addiction, depression, and related problems.
November 14: The course leader, Jim Martin, will wind up the Fall session with a discussion of Christopher Gorthman’s “The Confidante” which is a never before told story of a Jewish immigrant, Anna Rosenberg, who helped win WWII and shape modern America.
