We are seven handsome and charming* guys who meet at a different restaurant every month or so, having read a book in common, and discuss whatever we want--generally the assigned book, but usually many other timely topics as well. We rotate the responsibility to suggest titles, but the group has the final say. Our book club rules: 1) Anything goes, fiction or nonfiction; 2) paperbacks are preferred; and 3) staying under 300 pages is desirable (N.B., we violate this one all the time). We rate all books and restaurants on a 5-point scale.

* All other adjectives were vetoed.

October 5, 2023

Don Fraser by Iric Nathanson (The Great Wall)

The bio of Don Fraser was welcomed by all of us because he played a key role in Minnesota politics for many decades and became an important force for an internationalist foreign policy in the U. S. Congress.  The book covered the important events in Fraser's life but the account seemed one dimentional.  As an introvert, Fraser was a strange and unexpected political phenomenon.  And he sometimes made     questionable career choices, like returning to local politics as Mayor of Minneapolis after years of thinking and working at the international level. But we enjoyed the book and loved the food and service at the Great Wall.  

Our next book is Kinzer's, All the Shah's Men.  Also considered were Patchet, Tom Lake, Orwell, 1984, and McLean, A River Runs Through It.  We plan to meet on Wednesday, Oct. 25.  Peter suggests the next book.

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