Book Club resources

Full Book Club Kit (Including recipes, questions, crossword puzzle, and more!) Download your kit here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wmHD4PDTwvl2938MMq-6-A18O2QrKmmk/view?usp=share_link

Articles and Historical Coolness

Research Sources:

Stolen Masterpiece Tracker: The Dangerous Life of the FBI’s #1 Art Sleuth by Thomas McShane with Dary Matera

Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Thomas Hoving

Night Crawler King: Memoirs of an Art Museum Curator by William Fagaly

Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy by Martin Indyk

My Mission in Israel: 1948–1951 by James G. McDonald

Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough

Fun articles:

THE PERILS OF GUARDING KING TUT’S TREASURES – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

King Tut’s Cultural Influence, From Steve Martin to Downton Abbey | Vanity Fair

King Tut: A Classic Blockbuster Museum Exhibition That Began as a Diplomatic Gesture | The National Endowment for the Humanities (neh.gov)

This is a link to the coffee table book produced by the Met for the exhibit. It’s gorgeous!
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Tutankhamun_His_Tomb_and_Its_Treasures/8rbZtqxP8ukC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

And this is Steve Martin’s famous King Tut parody done in direct response to the tour: