UCBRC Book Club - Virtual

Event details Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2026 Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Location: Zoom Type: Student Life About this event This time the Retiree Book Club is reading Tom Paine’s America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic (Jeffersonian America) by Seth Cotlar. This book is a is a bottom-up history of 1790s American political discourse. It explores how a transatlantic network of printers, editors, and everyday readers stoked a vibrant, egalitarian democratic movement, only to see it defeated by the end of the decade. Official event details: https://events.berkeley.edu/brc/event/323268-ucbrc-book-club-virtual