📚 2 Books mentioned in "635. Can a Museum Be the Conscience of a Nation? | Freakonomics Radio" of Freakonomics Radio
Podcast: Freakonomics Radio
Episode: 635. Can a Museum Be the Conscience of a Nation? | Freakonomics Radio
Published on June 6, 2025
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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
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Oscar Wild, Virginia Wolf, you see here Sylvia Pankhurst, Carl Marx, who pretty much spent every day for 30 years sat here writing Des Capel.
Nicholas Cullinin mentions that Karl Marx wrote 'Das Kapital' while sitting in the British Museum's round reading room.
The Volcano Lover
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And that's also kind of why I chose it because I'm a big fan of Susan Santag's novel, The Volcano Lover, which is essentially a romantic novel around Lord Hamilton, who was the British ambassador to Naples.
Nicholas Cullinin mentions being a fan of Susan Sontag's novel, 'The Volcano Lover', and how it features the Portland vase.