Episode · The Book Review · 2024-07-18
Books mentioned on George Packer on Our Divided America
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Common Sense
Common Sense by Thomas Paine is a historic political pamphlet published in 1776 that forcefully advocated for American independence from Great Britain.
Discussed“some examples are common sense by Thomas Payne Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman which influenced me in this book Walter litman's drift and Mastery and and George Orwell's the line and the Unicorn written during the Blitz in in London in World War II”
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Democratic vistas
Discussed“some examples are common sense by Thomas Payne Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman which influenced me in this book Walter litman's drift and Mastery and and George Orwell's the line and the Unicorn written during the Blitz in in London in World War II”
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Drift and mastery
Discussed“some examples are common sense by Thomas Payne Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman which influenced me in this book Walter litman's drift and Mastery and and George Orwell's the line and the Unicorn written during the Blitz in in London in World War II”
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The Lion and the Unicorn
Discussed“some examples are common sense by Thomas Payne Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman which influenced me in this book Walter litman's drift and Mastery and and George Orwell's the line and the Unicorn written during the Blitz in in London in World War II”
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Strange defeat;
Discussed“in the spring of 1940 he escaped the Germans and HIIT out and wrote this short book called strange defeat before then joining the resistance and being captured and executed... and strange defeat which isn't well enough known in this country is his account of what happened to France”
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The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison, edited by John F.
Recommended“for example one of my favorite books of letters in the last couple years are Ralph Ellison's letters and they're just beautiful”
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84, Charing Cross Road
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff is a charming epistolary memoir chronicling decades of transatlantic correspondence between a New York writer and a London bookseller.
Recommended“but do you remember Pamela 84 Sharon Crossroad... but the book is Is Still Remains great”
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Vox
Discussed“it's a novel but Nicholson Baker's novel Vox which came out in 1992 and it's it's erotic”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Blood of the Liberals
“he was here of course for his previous book our man Richard Holbrook and the end of the American Century and is the author of many books including the national book award winner the unwinding and inner history of the new America the Assassins gate America in Iraq blood of the Liberals the village of waiting and others”
Passing The village of waiting
“he was here of course for his previous book our man Richard Holbrook and the end of the American Century and is the author of many books including the national book award winner the unwinding and inner history of the new America the Assassins gate America in Iraq blood of the Liberals the village of waiting and others”
Passing Artist at war
“and so as Rena she reviewed books such as Artist At War by George Biddle which was a book by an artist who had been hired by the war department and spent time on the front”
Passing The Lord of the Rings
“or the ants of The Lord of the Rings or the story of Richard power's recent novel The over Story... I read The Hobbit and I read Lord of the Rings and and I was fascinated with trees obviously”
Passing The Overstory
“or the ants of The Lord of the Rings or the story of Richard power's recent novel The over Story... I mean we would like for this to be true”
Passing The Hobbit
“or the story of Richard power's recent novel The over Story... I read The Hobbit and I read Lord of the Rings and and I was fascinated with trees obviously”