Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time

How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Guilded Age, Partied her way to Power

by Jennifer Wright

Wednesday, February 18th

4:00 p.m.

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In Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time, readers will learn all about how Fish and her friends shaped the line of history, exerting their influence on business, politics, family relationships, and social change through elaborate social gatherings. In a time when women couldn’t even own property, let alone run for office, if women wanted any of the things men got outside the home—glory, money, attention, social networking, leadership roles—they did it by throwing a decadent soiree or chairing a cotillion. 

Expect Great Things: how the Katharine Gibbs School revolutionized the American workplace for women!

by Vanda Krefft 

Wednesday, March 18th

4:00 p.m.

 

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A social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which, from the 1910s to the 1960s, trained women for executive secretary positions while surreptitiously instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim equality, power, and authority in the wider world.

 

Careless people: a cautionary tale of power, greed, and lost idealism

by Sarah Wynn-Williams

Wednesday, April 15th

4:00 p.m.

 

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A deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade—told in a sharp, candid, and utterly disarming voice. A deep, unflinching look at the role that social media has assumed in our lives, Careless People reveals the truth about the leaders of Facebook: how the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become and the consequences this has for all of us. 

 

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

by Margaret Atwood

Wednesday, May 20th

4:00 p.m.

 

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Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking seminal moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel year that spawned Cat’s Eye to the Orwellian 1980s Berlin where she wrote The Handmaid’s Tale. As we travel with her along the course of her life, more and more is revealed about her writing, the connections between real life and art – and the workings of her great imagination.