Episode · Pod Save America · 2022-10-18
Books mentioned on Answering Your Questions on Midterms, Tim Ryan, Kari Lake, Herschel Walkers and Political Movies
Tommy Vietor discussed The Great Successor by Anna Fifield. Jon Lovett discussed Rise and kill first by Ronen Bergman and The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson and others. Also mentioned: The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Great Successor
The Great Successor by Anna Fifield is a biographical study examining the rise and rule of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Discussed“I'm currently reading a book called The Great successor the rise and Rule of Kim Jong-un it's by a reporter named Anna Fifield who covered the administration for us it's like I I'm shocked at how good it is and how much she figured out about Kim Jong-un that I'd never seen reported before”
Where to get it
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Rise and kill first
Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman is an exhaustive investigative history detailing the targeted assassinations and covert operations carried out by Israel's intelligence services.
Discussed“the the non-fiction book I'm reading is called rise and kill first about great books it's fascinating about about the Mossad and and and Target targeted assassinations in the early days of the uh um the founding of Israel and then in the later days and the later days I'm not up to the later days I'm still in the”
Where to get it
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The Years of Rice and Salt
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson is an imaginative alternative history novel that explores a world where the Black Death wiped out most of Europe.
Discussed“and then I'm reading the ministry for the future by Kim Stanley Robinson I love Kim Stanley Robinson”
Where to get it
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The Ministry for the Future
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson is a gripping speculative science fiction novel that chronicles a near-future world grappling with the escalating and devastating consequences of climate change through the efforts of a newly established UN subsidiary.
Discussed“and then I'm reading the ministry for the future by Kim Stanley Robinson I love Kim Stanley Robinson uh I've I've just wrote a book by him I think it's called Aurora”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“well I'm I'm still slowly making my way through the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan after I read the candy house by Jennifer Egan over the Fourth of July six months ago and I I went through the candy house in like three days on vacation and then I've been back to reality and getting I got I got stuck”
“well I'm I'm still slowly making my way through the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan after I read the candy house by Jennifer Egan over the Fourth of July six months ago and I I went through the candy house in like three days on vacation”
“I got I got stuck in a licare I was in The Honorable Schoolboy for months and months and months is quite long”
“I love Kim Stanley Robinson uh I've I've just wrote a book by him I think it's called Aurora and I was and I read a um uh uh project Hail Mary a while ago and it got me on a science fiction kick”
“and I read a um uh uh project Hail Mary a while ago and it got me on a science fiction kick so I'm reading this”
“uh I've I've just wrote a book by him I think it's called Aurora”
“and I read a um uh uh project Hail Mary a while ago and it got me on a science fiction kick”