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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club November (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:In The Butchering Art\, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters–no place for the squeamish–and surgeons\, working before anesthesia\, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These medical pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than their patients’ afflictions\, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn’t have been more hazardous\, an unlikely figure stepped forward: a young\, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister\, who would solve the deadly riddle and change the course of history… \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-november-virtual-2/
LOCATION:Zoom\, DC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club - Virtual,Tombs & Tomes
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club September (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son. After her husband’s death in 1893\, Jane Stanford\, a devoted spiritualist who expected the university to inculcate her values\, steered Stanford into eccentricity and public controversy for more than a decade. In 1905 she was murdered in Hawaii\, a victim\, according to the Honolulu coroner’s jury\, of strychnine poisoning. With her vast fortune the university’s lifeline\, the Stanford president and his allies quickly sought to foreclose challenges to her bequests by constructing a story of death by natural causes. The cover-up gained traction in the murky labyrinths of power\, wealth\, and corruption of Gilded Age San Francisco. The murderer walked… \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-september-virtual-2/
LOCATION:Zoom\, DC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club - Virtual,Tombs & Tomes
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club July (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:On January 28\, 1742\, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men\, barely alive\, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty’s Ship the Wager\, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans\,” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men\, after being marooned for months and facing starvation\, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days\, traversing nearly 3\,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. \nBut then . . . six months later\, another\, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways\, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own\, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy\, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew\, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death–for whomever the court found guilty could hang… \n 
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-july-virtual-2/
LOCATION:Zoom\, DC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club - Virtual,Tombs & Tomes
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club May (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:A tree that sheds poison daggers; a glistening red seed that stops the heart; a shrub that causes paralysis; a vine that strangles; and a leaf that triggered a war. In Wicked Plants \, Stewart takes on over two hundred of Mother Nature’s most appalling creations. It’s an A to Z of plants that kill\, maim\, intoxicate\, and otherwise offend. You’ll learn which plants to avoid (like exploding shrubs)\, which plants make themselves exceedingly unwelcome (like the vine that ate the South)\, and which ones have been killing for centuries (like the weed that killed Abraham Lincoln’s mother). \nMenacing botanical illustrations and splendidly ghastly drawings create a fascinating portrait of the evildoers that may be lurking in your own backyard. Drawing on history\, medicine\, science\, and legend\, this compendium of bloodcurdling botany will entertain\, alarm\, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers… \nStill interested? RSVP Here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-may-virtual-2/
LOCATION:Zoom\, DC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club - Virtual,Tombs & Tomes
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club March (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. \nIn 1971\, Go Ask Alice reinvented the young adult genre with a blistering portrayal of sex\, psychosis\, and teenage self-destruction. The supposed diary of a middle-class addict\, Go Ask Alice terrified adults and cemented LSD’s fearsome reputation\, fueling support for the War on Drugs. Five million copies later\, Go Ask Alice remains a divisive bestseller\, outraging censors and earning new fans\, all of them drawn by the book’s mythic premise: A Real Diary\, by Anonymous. \nBut Alice was only the beginning. \nIn 1979\, another diary rattled the culture\, setting the stage for a national meltdown. The posthumous memoir of an alleged teenage Satanist\, Jay’s Journal merged with a frightening new crisis—adolescent suicide—to create a literal witch hunt\, shattering countless lives and poisoning whole communities. \nIn reality\, Go Ask Alice and Jay’s Journal came from the same dark place: Beatrice Sparks\, a serial con artist who betrayed a grieving family\, stole a dead boy’s memory\, and lied her way to the National Book Awards. \nUnmask Alice: LSD\, Satanic Panic\, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries is a true story of contagious deception. It stretches from Hollywood to Quantico\, and passes through a tiny patch of Utah nicknamed “the fraud capital of America.” It’s the story of a doomed romance and a vengeful celebrity. Of a lazy press and a public mob. Of two suicidal teenagers\, and their exploitation by a literary vampire. \nUnmask Alice . . . where truth is stranger than nonfiction.
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-march-virtual-2/
LOCATION:Zoom\, DC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club - In Person,Tombs & Tomes
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club March (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards. Who are London’s outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? What is the remarkable truth about Phoebe Hessel\, who disguised herself as a man to fight alongside her sweetheart\, and went on to live in the reigns of five monarchs? Why is a Bristol cemetery the perfect wedding venue for goths? \nAll of these sorrowful mysteries – and many more – are answered in A Tomb With A View\, a book for anyone who has ever wandered through a field of crooked headstones and wondered about the lives and deaths of those who lie beneath. \nSo push open the rusting gate\, push back the ivy\, and take a look inside… \nStill interested? Sign up here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-march-virtual/
LOCATION:Zoom\, DC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club - Virtual,Tombs & Tomes
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SUMMARY:Tombs and Tomes Book Club January (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other–a 1920s midwife who may have been the century’s most prolific killer leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men. \nThe horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day Hungary. To look at the unlikely lineup of murderesses–village wives\, mothers\, and daughters–was to come to the shocking realization that this could have happened anywhere\, and to anyone. At the center of it all was a sharp-minded village midwife\, a “smiling Buddha” known as Auntie Suzy\, who distilled arsenic from flypaper and distributed it to the women of Nagyrév. “Why are you bothering with him?” Auntie Suzy would ask\, as she produced an arsenic-filled vial from her apron pocket… \nStill interested? Sign up here!
URL:https://congressionalcemetery.org/event/tombs-and-tomes-book-club-january-virtual/
LOCATION:Zoom\, DC\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Club - Virtual,Tombs & Tomes
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