📚 2 Books mentioned in "Full Episode | Let’s Make America Smart Again, with Fareed Zakaria" of StarTalk Radio
Podcast: StarTalk Radio
Episode: Full Episode | Let’s Make America Smart Again, with Fareed Zakaria
Published on July 11, 2017
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
The Children
Buy The Children by David Halberstam on Amazon
I was reading the New York Times um recently there was an article about Steve Bannon Donald Trump's Chief strategist who's having everybody read a book called the best and the brightest This is a book about how the smart Kennedy advisers uh got America into Vietnam and the the the moral of the book is meant to be or the way he sees it all these experts uh were were disastrously wrong disaster
Fareed Zakaria mentions a New York Times article stating that Steve Bannon recommends the book 'The Best and the Brightest', describing its subject matter and Bannon's interpretation of its moral.
The Rational Optimist
Buy The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley on Amazon
There's this wonderful book by Matt Ridley about the you know why did human beings manage this extraordinary rise you know from being just just animals and the most important thing he points out is whenever we encountered diversity we we flourished you know just even scientifically
Fareed Zakaria mentions a wonderful book by Matt Ridley about the extraordinary rise of human beings and the importance of diversity.