Episode · The Tim Ferriss Show · 2024-06-04
Books mentioned on #743: Dr. Jane Goodall and Cal Fussman
This episode is a two-for-one, and that’s because the podcast recently hit its 10-year anniversary and passed one billion downloads. To celebrate, I’ve curated some of the best of the best—some of my favorites—from more than 700 episodes over the last decade.
Cal Fussman recommended One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln by James C. Humes, and discussed The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro and A Feast of Snakes by Harry Crews. Tim Ferriss discussed Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Power Broker
The Power Broker by Robert A.
Discussed“I wish you know I was talking to the historian Robert Caro who wrote volumes about Lyndon Johnson and also wrote the power broker am I right”
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez is a landmark novel that chronicles the multi-generational history of the Buendía family in the fictional town of Macondo and stands as a masterwork of magical realism.
Recommended“and so I gave him uh Gabrielle Garcia marquez's 100 Years of Solitude for him to know okay if you've never written a book”
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Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a powerful, epistolary memoir structured as a letter from a father to his teenage son regarding the realities of growing up Black in America.
Recommended“and this book is called uh between the world and me and it's by a guy named ta nahi coats and it's a letter to his son about being a black male in America”
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Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln
Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln by James C.
Recommended“it's book called speak like Churchill stand like Lincoln I'm carrying it around with me as well this is amazing it's written by James C Humes”
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Chimpanzee Politics
Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal is a groundbreaking primatology book that examines the complex social strategies, power struggles, and alliance-building behaviors of chimpanzees and their striking parallels to human political systems.
Discussed“have you ever heard the story of the book that new Gingrich used to navigate politics at least one that he's credited with whatever success he's had chimpanzee politics”
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A Feast of Snakes
Discussed“no wrote a book called Feast of snakes and if you're a young man and Harry Cruz also wrote for Esquire”
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