Oconee County, GA Politics

So Pat has been super busy rewriting the script for the twice postponed "Dancing with the Stars, Part 2" with Courtney Gale, John Keane, and many other Athens and Oconee County dancers and non-dancers which was the victim of the recent slowly retreating snow storm. But read the book already? OK! Woven brightly, Daniel J. Matthews, Jr.    The book group the Oconee Democrats sponsor is reading a wonderful book  in March. Consider joining us!    We've chosen "The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court" by  Jeffrey Toobin. The New York Times described the book as "engaging,  erudite, candid and accessible, often hard to put down."    Toobin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was  editor of the Harvard Law Review (a prestigious role President Obama  carried out later). Toobin is a staff writer for New Yorker magazine  and senior legal analyst for CNN.    "The Nine" was chosen a...

    Subject: Oconee Democrats' Books for 2009 Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:00:06 +0000 Hello! Will you please help us get out word of our upcoming books? More people from the community -- conservatives and independents -- are joining us these days. I think there's a hunger to connect with people and to learn more about what's going on around us -- and each other. Thank you! Pat Priest Member, Oconee Democrats ----------------------------------------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The book group sponsored by the Oconee Democrats has announced the 2009 slate of books the group will read and discuss to learn more about history, nature and politics. The list includes stirring stories of social change enacted by abolitionists (Adam Hochschild's award-winning "Bury the Chains") and ordinary people ("Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin) and encompasses books about Georgia (E.L. Doctorow's "The March" and Ja...