Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2024-10-07
Ryan Holiday & Wright Thompson: books mentioned on The Daily Stoic
America's Darkest Secrets | Wright Thompson
Wright Thompson recommended We Don't Know Ourselves by Fintan O'Toole and Empire of cotton by Sven Beckert, and discussed The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin. Ryan Holiday recommended Lancelot by Walker Percy, and discussed The Cost of These Dreams by Wright Thompson, Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, and Three lives for Mississippi by William Bradford Huie.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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We Don't Know Ourselves
Recommended“I just read this book I loved called uh that it's just a master piece which is fent no tools we don't know ourselves oh it's a history of modern Ireland”
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The Cost of These Dreams
Discussed“man know it's um I was thinking about this though cuz I was writing upstairs uh as I love your book the cost of these dreams”
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Through My Eyes
Discussed“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”
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The End of the Myth
Discussed“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 mattil was killed is America was finally settled”
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Empire of cotton
Recommended“and like you know the degree to which there's a book you should read if you haven't called uh Empire of cotton by Harvard professor at the back I read it twice like I L this is not an exaggeration”
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The Moviegoer
Discussed“no so they're all still there and like Roy Percy's a federal judge and like uh there's a big passage from Marcus Aus in the movie goer that that the ant recites that's which in the ant is modeled on William Alexander Percy who introduces uh Walker to stoic philosophy”
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Lancelot
Recommended“and my favorite Walker Percy novel is Lance aot I've never read that oh dude it's so good”
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Three lives for Mississippi
Discussed“I read three lives from Mississippi which Martin Luther King writes a forw to yeah and the author comes off as pretty heroic and decent and not like the southern leers at that time and then in your in your book he's a [ __ ] villain”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Devil In The White City
“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,”
Passing The Devil In The White City
“like like the Devil in the White City World Fair”
Plugged Conspiracy
“I used an epigraph from a lot in in as the opening for my book conspiracy”