Books Mentioned in This Episode

Podcast: The Daily Stoic

Episode: America's Darkest Secrets | Wright Thompson

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

by Fintan O'Toole

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"Yeah, so like some of that is like, it's just the enjoy—like, I just read this book I loved called—uh, that—it's just a masterpiece, which is 'Fint, No Tools, We Don't Know Ourselves.'"
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The Cost of These Dreams

by Wright Thompson

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"No, it's, um, I was thinking about this though because I was writing upstairs, uh, as I love your book, 'The Cost of These Dreams.'"
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The Devil In The White City

by Erik Larson

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"And he goes, so, um, the—the man and wife who—funny, crazy story—the guy who bought this house, he built this dream house with his wife, and then like a year later he gets hit by a streetcar at the World Fair in Chicago and never like dies; never lives in the house; like, like The Devil in the White City, World Fair."
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Through My Eyes

by Ruby Bridges

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"And I think that's true for your book, and like I remember a couple years ago my mother-in-law gave—uh, gave us a kid like Ruby Bridges wrote a—a kids' book, and um she wrote on the inside about how she like, remember, she lived in Louisiana when it happened; she lived like up—she lived in Monroe, I think; anyways, she was like, 'We're the same age,' and I was like, wait, what?"
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The End of the Myth

by Greg Grandin

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"And you know, I love that Greg Grandon book, 'The End of the Myth,' but like if there's a—you know, there's a case to be made that the land where Matt Till was killed is America was finally settled."