Mayor's Book Group

Since 2014, the Mayor's Office and the University of Vermont Humanities Center have partnered to host the Mayor's Book Group. Mayor Weinberger selects a book that engages a critical topic facing the Burlington community; the University of Vermont Humanities Center sponsors an order of 100-200 books that we distribute for free through the Fletcher Free Library, the Mayor's Office, and the Humanities Center; and then we host a discussion that features a panel of experts followed by general conversation about the issues and themes raised by the book. These meetings have been a valuable forum for community conversation about important ideas.

Interested in joining the next book group? Email Olivia at olivia@burlingtonvt.gov to get added to our notification list.

Past book groups:

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein
• Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution, by Janette Sadik-Khan and Seth Solomonow
• Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, by Sam Quinones
• Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier, by Edward Glaeser
• Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America, by Paul Tough
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by Michael Lewis
• An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by Todd Purdum