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JOIN US ON TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2026, AT 7:15 P.M. (Pacific Time)
FOR A PRESENTATION ON
"BOUTWELL: RADICAL REPUBLICAN AND
CHAMPION OF DEMOCRACY"
WITH Dr. Jeffrey Boutwell, Author
George S. Boutwell of Massachusetts was a key figure in American public life for seven decades. As the youngest-ever governor of Massachusetts in the early 1850s, he helped create the Republican Party and became a close ally and friend of presidents Lincoln and Grant during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. While in Congress, he helped write the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution and led the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson for seeking to re-establish white supremacist political control in the South. As Revenue Commissioner for Lincoln and Treasury Secretary for Grant, Boutwell helped establish the modern American economy. In the 1870s, Boutwell served in the U.S. Senate where he chaired the committee investigating the Mississippi Plan of 1875 that employed intimidation and violence to re-establish white Democratic control of the state. Remarkably, at the age of 80, Boutwell was asked in 1898 to become president of the Anti-Imperialist League, working with Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, and others to oppose Teddy Roosevelt and America’s annexation of the Philippines following the Spanish-American War. George Boutwell died in 1905, having lived with his family in Groton, Mass. for more than fifty years. This first major biography by family member Jeffrey Boutwell is as much a history of 19th century America as it is a critique of the failures of governance during a turbulent and formative period in American history.
Jeffrey Boutwell is a writer, historian, and public policy specialist whose forty-year career spanned journalism, government, and international scientific research and cooperation. He has written widely on issues relating to nuclear weapons arms control, European politics, and Middle East security issues. He has a Ph.D. in political science from MIT, a B.A. in history from Yale University, and he worked for many years at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Mass. Jeffrey grew up in Concord, Mass., and now lives in Columbia, Maryland. He and George Boutwell share a common ancestor, the indentured servant James Boutwell, who emigrated from England to Salem, Mass. in 1632.
We have a "Book Buying Partnership" with our local, Pasadena treasure, Vroman's Bookstore. If you would like to pre-order Dr. Boutwell’s book using this link, it will be available for you at the March 24 meeting where Dr. Boutwell can sign it for you. And there are no shipping charges to pay!
If you choose to visit Vroman's in person, please go to the Will-Call Desk on the second floor, and identify yourself as a Pasadena CWRT member making a purchase for our March 24 meeting.
Please be sure to follow all instructions on the order page so that your book will be ready for you at the meeting.
Orders must be placed no later than March 16.
VROMAN'S PURCHASE LINK
Southern California's Oldest & Largest Independent Bookstore
Vroman’s Bookstore is the official supplier of speakers’ books for the Pasadena Civil War Round Table.
Thanks to the volunteer efforts and expertise of our Pasadena CWRT members, Tina Miller and Monika Skerbelis, we are now able to record our monthly meetings and post the videos to our YouTube Channel for your enjoyment and edification if you are unable to join us for our live meetings. We invite you to check out the videos from our two years of virtual meetings, as well as our most recent presentations, at our YouTube Channel:
CLICK HERE
We are indebted to Tina and Monika for helping us to bring this wonderful added benefit to allow our non-local members and guests to enjoy the presentations of our distinguished roster of speakers.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR IN-PERSON MEETING:
Pasadena CWRT - TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 2026 - 7:15 PM (Pacific Time)
The Blinn House - 160 North Oakland Avenue - Pasadena
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