Episode · Conversations with Tyler · 2024-03-27
Books mentioned on Fareed Zakaria on the Age of Revolutions, the Power of Ideas, and the Rewards of Intellectual Curiosity
Those who know Fareed Zakaria through his weekly column or CNN show may be surprised to learn he considers books the important way he can put new ideas in the world.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Henry Kissinger the Complete Memoirs e-Book Boxed Set
Discussed“Henry Ginger's Memoirs came out when I was 14 I think and I remember reading them cuz I remember my moms um at then at that point she was working at the Times of India”
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A book of common prayer
Discussed“um you know so I went to an English uh to a to a protest high Protestant High Anglican School in India from you know for until 12th grade and we'd start every morning uh singing A Hymn reciting a book out of the book of common prayer”
Where to get it
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Dominion
Dominion by Tom Holland is a historical exploration examining how Christianity fundamentally shaped Western secular values, human rights, and morality.
Recommended“Tom Holland has a very good book about this uh the he's a he's a wonderful historian in Britain uh call I think it's called Dominion where he points out yeah he he points out what a revolutionary idea this was”
Where to get it
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The wise men: Six friends and the world they made
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas is a collective biography that chronicles the lives and diplomatic careers of six key architects of American foreign policy during the Cold War era.
Discussed“Walter when I first got to know him was you know just a kind of a great journalist who had written this book the wise men”
Where to get it
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy is a prominent historical analysis examining the economic and strategic shifts among global empires over the centuries.
Discussed“Paul Kennedy had been my advisor at Yale and he had been writing the rise and fall of the great Powers his his great uh toome at the time”
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Rise and Fall of the Great Power
Rise and Fall of the Great Power by Paul Kennedy is a prominent historical analysis examining the economic and strategic shifts among global empires over the centuries.
Discussed“Paul Kennedy had been my advisor at Yale and he had been writing the rise and fall of the great Powers his his great uh toome at the time”
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The Protestant ethic and the "spirit" of capitalism and other writings
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is a seminal sociological study by Max Weber that investigates how ascetic Protestant religious values, particularly Calvinist beliefs regarding hard work and worldly success, inadvertently fostered the rise of modern Western capitalism.
Discussed“people used to say that uh if you look at Max vber in his in his book on the on the on capitalism the Protestant Spirit uh he basically said the two areas the two cultures that are inimicable to growth that are going to be an obstacle to growth were Catholicism and Confucianism”
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