[Fuusm-l] Today's Issues Readings for Sunday 4/25/2021

[Ted Goertzel]

The Today's Issues group continues to meet at 9:30 on Sunday mornings in
the Parlor of the Religious Education building next to the church,
following social distancing guidelines.  All the regular attenders have
been fully vaccinated.

For this Sunday, we will be discussing two essays from the April 29 issue
of the New York Review of Books:

Page 24, Sean Wilentz, "Lincoln's Rowdy America
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m8afSzfvlC8yLl4C9SLePnljT8dTk12_tNg8QO4bRjk/edit?usp=sharing>,"
A
review of a new biography that captures the cultural jumble of great
literature, dirty jokes, and everything in between that went into the
self-making of the foremost self-made American.

Page 47, Howard French, "Can American Remain Preeminent
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/17RiJJSFDukWcUH2_eN-rcrdHqD0tYz1xYO09m3lqfQ0/edit?usp=sharing>,"
a review of three books examining how much the global influence of the US
is threatened by the potentially chaotic unraveling of a political,
security, and economic architecture that has structured the world for the
past seventy or so years.

Copies of the essays are attached.  Please do the reading and join our
lively discussion, which will end in time for us to attend the Annual
Meeting which will be held in the church as well as on Zoom.
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