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Join Davarian L Baldwin, author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities. via Zoom<br /><br />Davarian L. Baldwin, author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities, will join us. USC is the largest private employer in the Los Angeles County. NYU and Columbia are two of the biggest landholders in Manhattan. And the University of Chicago fields the largest private security force in the world, outside the Vatican. Universities have become big business but there is a cost for those who live in the shadows.<br /><br />This New York Times article that describes escape routes through the Pyranees in WWII and mentions Lisa Fittko.<br />https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/travel/holocaust-pyrenees-jewish-refugees.html<br /><br /><br />Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsd-6vrj0pGNGvkysQntxFyvCxtFGUFI9v<br /><br />The Hyde Park Book Club is jointly sponsored by the Hyde Park Historical Society and Chicago Hyde Park Village.<br /><br />All are welcome. Invite a Friend.<br /><br />Via Zoom! Registration required – Contact info@hydeparkhistory.org<br /><br />Book Club Contacts: Carol Vieth, ultra5300@earthlink.net; Michal Safar, Archivist@hydeparkhistory.org; Dottie Jeffries, dottiejeffries@gmail.com