Episode · The Realignment · 2022-03-18
Books mentioned on 217 | Ian Buruma: How the Ghosts of Churchill and Appeasement at Munich Haunt Ukraine
For Day 12 of The Realignment's daily Ukraine coverage, Marshall spoke with Ian Buruma, historian and author of The Churchill Complex: The Curse of Being Special, from Winston and FDR to Trump and Brexit.
Marshall Kosloff discussed The Churchill Complex by Ian Buruma and Year Zero by Ian Buruma. Ian Buruma discussed Why England slept by John F. Kennedy.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Churchill Complex
Discussed“ian has written a book it's called the churchill complex and it's basically about how winston churchill and his model of leadership and how his response to the post-munich period really shaped the way we in the west but especially the us and great britain think about conflicts”
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Year Zero
Discussed“we're going to hit this with a couple of different ways everything from germany and japan post world war ii to year zero which is your book about the word after 1945 to your most recent book the churchill complex”
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Why England slept
Why England Slept by John F.
Discussed“but he he wrote a book about called i think when england slept which was very much about those uh years”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Wages of Guilt
“uh the the the japan germany book was called the wages of guilt”
Plugged Inventing Japan
“uh the the the japan germany book was called the wages of guilt”
Plugged Bad Elements
“i've written a book about chinese about dissidents in all over the chinese world um which um uh came out unfortunately um in the month of 9 11 when nobody was interested in china whatsoever it was called bad elements”