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.
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
Buy on Amazon"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.'"
The Cost of These Dreams
Buy on Amazon"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.'"
The Devil In The White City
Buy on Amazon"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."
Through My Eyes
Buy on Amazon"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 End of the Myth
Buy on Amazon"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."