On Wednesday, February 10 th at 7:30 PM in the Plaut Conference Room at the New Canaan Library, Ken Hecht will lead the first discussion launching the new World Events, History and Culture Book Group. The group will meet on the 2 nd Wednesday each month.The first title of the series is The Year that Changed the World by Michael Meyer. Mr. Meyer was scheduled to appear at the Library in December and this event will be re-scheduled.

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many still believe it was the words of President Ronald Regan, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!,” that brought the Cold War to an end.

Michael Meyer disagrees, and in his extraordinarily compelling account, explains why.

He draws together breathtakingly vivid, on-the-ground accounts of the rise of Solidarity in Poland, the stealth opening of the Hungarian border, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, and the collapse of the infamous wall in Berlin and shows that American intransigence was only one of many factors that provoked such dramatic world change.

Library programs are free and open to the public. On March 10 th the group will be discussing Descent Into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid.

Registration is required. Please call (203) 594-5040, e-mail achapin@newcanaanlibrary.org or click on the program registration link on the library website at www.newcanaanlibrary.org to sign up for the program.