Book · 2025 · Political Science
Dead Center
In Defense of Common Sense
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The book's fantastic. Everybody go pause the podcast here and I just absolutely go buy it because it's so important.
Jason Calacanis · All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Oct 2025 Listen at 2:53 What they say about it
- Discusses book contents“you wrote in the book”4
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Well, Joe, by the book, on behalf of the All-In community, I just want to say thank you for your years of service. Buy the book. Yeah, center in defense of common sense.
Jason Calacanis All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Oct 2025 Jason has just proved is he has not read the book, but he looked at the pictures in the middle.
You wrote in the book that Trump was the most engaged president you ever worked with.
Jason Calacanis All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Oct 2025 In the book you talk about comes from this rugged individualism, personal responsibility.
Jason Calacanis All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Oct 2025 There's a cute thing in the book.
Why people recommend it
Dead Center by Joe Manchin is a political book focusing on bipartisanship, common sense governance, personal responsibility, and the history of American public service. On an October 2025 episode of All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg, Jason Calacanis strongly urged listeners to pause the show and purchase the publication, praising it as a vital read and thanking the author for his years of public service. David Sacks also discussed the work during the interview, jokingly remarking that Calacanis had only looked at the middle pictures rather than reading the text, while introducing the senator and highlighting the focus on common sense. Throughout the conversation, Calacanis referenced specific passages concerning the author's interactions with various presidents, noting that Donald Trump was described as exceptionally engaged, and discussed themes of rugged individualism regarding spending and entitlements. Manchin himself contributed to the discussion by recalling a formative memory from his youth that inspired his lifelong dedication to civic duty, referencing the famous inaugural address by John F. Kennedy.
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Jason Calacanis Well, Joe, by the book, on behalf of the All-In community, I just want to say thank you for your years of s… 5
“but, you know, the the book's fantastic. Everybody go pause the uh podcast here and I just absolutely go buy it because it's so important and you know I mentioned um when we were just on the pre-show Irish Catholic Boy Scout and you start the book out with an Irish Catholic boy scout getting in a brewhaha Donnie Brookke”
“It's because it's not just the president exactly as you write in the book.”
“So you wrote in the book that Trump was the most engaged president you ever worked with and that in the first I said two of them two two two of them okay and then Clinton Bill Clinton if you told me people that are engaging with you and talk Bill and uh and President Trump and then you said”
“So, a lot of your this profiling courage around spending and entitlements in the book you talk about comes from this rugged individualism, personal responsibility.”
“Well, Joe, by the book, on behalf of the All-In community, I just want to say thank you for your years of service. Buy the book. Yeah, center in defense of common sense.”
David Sacks And Chamath and I will be interviewing him uh on his new book, Dead Center in Defense of Common Sense. 2
“And Chamath and I will be interviewing him uh on his new book, Dead Center in Defense of Common Sense.”
“Joe, what what Jason has just proved is he has not read the book, but he looked at the pictures in the middle.”
Joe Manchin I said, I remember very vividly as a 13-year-old kid watching television, inauguration 196 of John Kennedy… 2
“I said, I remember very vividly as a 13-year-old kid watching television, inauguration 196 of John Kennedy asked not what your country can do for you, what you can do for your country.”
“We didn't know what to expect, but we were thinking, here's a businessman always told us how successful and things of this we were expecting some things. And I I met with him from day one and when 2016 uh and talked to him and then I met with him 2017 2018 and there's a cute thing in the book”