The Retired Faculty Reading Club will be discussing Terry Bouton’s “Taming Democracy: The People, the Founders and The Troubled Ending of the American Revolution,” on Monday, December 7, 4 p.m., in The Commons, Fireside Lounge. Bouton has written a major work revising commonplace notions that the American War for Independence was consistently a peoples’ movement because of the backlash staged by the contemporary gentry who were eager to preserve social and economic standing in the years immediately following the Revolution itself. Bouton will host the discussion and refreshments will be served. Come and bring guests.
This event is sponsored by the Faculty Development Center. Contact Barry Casey at ext. 5-1829 or bcasey@umbc.edu for more information.
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