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SUMMARY:CLUB DINNER
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 26 February at 6.00pm for 6.30pm\nSpeaker: Don Watson\nSubject: The Shortest History of the United States of America: from revolution to civil rights, Hollywood and the Gilded Age\nDon Watson, one of Australia’s most distinguished writers and public speakers, historian and former speech writer and adviser to Paul Keating, is the author of many books and screenplays. In the year of the 250th anniversary of America’s independence, his latest book The Shortest History of the United States of America will provide the background to his presentation.\nWhen Britain’s thirteen American colonies declared their independence on 4 July 1776, the United States of America was born. But it was hardly united. Don Watson will trace how the central conflicts of the United States – those over freedom, race, frontiers, enterprise, religion and violence – play out through its history: a country at war with itself in the 1860s, the leader of the free world less than a hundred years later, and a nation beset by wild division and turmoil in the twenty-first century.\n‘These were indeed strange times. Yet the forces at work in them were not new. Men like Donald Trump are embedded in US history, mythology and popular culture. Rank populists, hucksters, fakers, grifters, rent-seekers, blowhards, tycoons, kleptocrats, narcissists, psychopaths and delinquents – or, from the other point of view, rugged individualists, entrepreneurs, men of vision, men of destiny, instruments of God. No diorama of mainstream American life in any era could be without them.’ Don Watson\n$125.00 three course dinner with wine.\n
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