📚 5 Books mentioned in "America's Darkest Secrets | Wright Thompson" of The Daily Stoic

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.'

In this segment, the podcast host expresses their admiration for the guest's book, 'The Cost of These Dreams,' highlighting their enjoyment of it.

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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.

The podcast guest references 'The Devil in the White City' while discussing a story about a man who built a house but tragically never lived in it due to a fatal accident at the World Fair in Chicago.

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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.

In the podcast, the guest expresses admiration for Greg Grandin's book, 'The End of the Myth,' while discussing the complexities of America's historical settlement, particularly in relation to the land where Matt Till was tragically killed.

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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?

The podcast host reflects on a children's book written by Ruby Bridges, which was a gift from their mother-in-law. The host recalls how Bridges shared a personal connection to the events of her childhood in Louisiana.

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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.'

In the podcast, the guest shares his admiration for a book he recently read titled 'Fint, No Tools, We Don't Know Ourselves,' which he describes as a masterpiece.

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