Episode · The Book Review · 2021-06-18
George Packer on The Book Review: books mentioned
George Packer on Our Divided America
George Packer discussed Common Sense by Thomas Paine, Democratic vistas by Walt Whitman, Drift and mastery by Walter Lippmann, The Lion and the Unicorn by George Orwell, and Strange defeat; by Marc Léopold Benjamin Bloch. Pamela Paul recommended Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard. Dwight Garner recommended The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison by Ralph Ellison and others and 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, and discussed Where You Are Is Not Who You Are by Ursula Burns and Vox by Nicholson Baker.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Common Sense
Common Sense by Thomas Paine is a deeply influential 1776 political pamphlet that articulated arguments for American independence from Great Britain and helped ignite the American Revolution.
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”
Where to get it
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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”
Where to get it
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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”
Where to get it
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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”
Where to get it
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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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Finding the Mother Tree
Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard is a scientific memoir detailing the author's pioneering research into how trees communicate, share resources, and function cooperatively within complex forest ecosystems.
Recommended“it's called finding the mother tree discovering the wisdom of the forest”
Where to get it
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Where You Are Is Not Who You Are
Discussed“I I reviewed a memoir by a woman named Ursula M Burns who was the is the former CEO of Xerox and she was also the first black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company and she's she's written a book called where you are is not who you are”
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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”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (12) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Last Best Hope
“George Packer returns to the podcast with his new book last best hope America in crisis and renewal”
Passing Finding the Mother Tree
“Suzanne samard will join us to talk about her new book Finding the mother tree discovering the wisdom of the forest”
Passing The Unwinding
“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 Our Man
“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 assassins' gate
“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 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 Finding the Mother Tree
“her book is called finding the mother tree discovering the wisdom of the forest”
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”