Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2021-07-05
Books mentioned on 181. Baron Black of Crossharbour | Lord Conrad Black
In this Season 4, Episode 35 of the Jordan Peterson Podcast, Jordan is joined by Lord Conrad Black. Conrad Black is a Canadian-born British peer, and former publisher of The London Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Jerusalem Post, and founder of Canada's National Post.
Conrad Black recommended Napoleon and his Marshals by A. G. Macdonell, and discussed The Campaigns of Napoleon by David Chandler, The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, and The War Memoirs by Charles de Gaulle.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Napoleon and his Marshals
Napoleon and his Marshals by A.
Recommended“he in particular he gave me when i was 13. he handed me a book and he said obviously it's not for me to tell you what to read but i do recommend this and if you just read a few pages in it i think you will want to continue and it was a.g mcdonald's book napoleon and his”
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The Campaigns of Napoleon
Discussed“david chandler's the campaigns of napoleon a book of 1300 pages of tremendous work of scholarship and very well written in the in the forward credits eg mcdonald and and people who write about napoleon often do it's a tremendously readable book and and and and and it it gave me a a huge interest napoleon that that i've kept”
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The Pursuit of Love
Discussed“some years later two or three years later he he gave me a copy of uh nancy mitford's pursuit of love now it's a novel but about real people but the names changed”
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The War Memoirs
Discussed“i remember reading i remember reading the first volume of general the goals war memoirs when they were first published in english they're the ones that begin all my life i've thought of france in a certain way and uh it's beautifully written by that i mean de gaulle was a wonderful writer”
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Plugged Render Unto Caesar
“and that's where my first book came from which which is called uh render unto caesar the life of maurice du plessis”