Join our next Men’s Book Club on Tuesday, August 16, at 6:30 pm at Cafe Brazil, 501 W. University Dr. The book chosen is: Dreams of El Dorado by H.W. Brands. Discussion will be encouraged and occasionally we may even talk about the book. Even if you don’t read, come and enjoy the fellowship. Please contact Bob Voss 972-965-9605, bob.voss@verizon.net for more information.
Book Description: H.W. Brands opens his book on the exploration and settling of the American West by noting that any work of history must have a beginning and an end.
“This one commences with the Louisiana Purchase at the start of the nineteenth century, when the United States first gained a foot-hold — a very large one — beyond the Mississippi. It ends in the early 20th century, when the West had become enough like the East to make the Western experience most comprehensible as a piece of America whole rather than a thing apart,” Mr. Brands writes in the prologue of “Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West.”
“Western dreams didn’t die; Hollywood and Silicon Valley would be built on such dreams. But the dreams were no longer as distinctively Western as they once were.”