Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-05-13
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Mentioned: City of Quartz by Mike Davis.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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City of Quartz
City of Quartz by Mike Davis is a critical urban history and examination of Los Angeles that explores the social, political, and racial forces shaping the metropolis.
Discussed“I would say that we did make an explicit attempt to make the city the main character. So to draw people into Oakland and kind of cast it in the same way that Mike Davis cast Los Angeles and City of Courts. Um, may he rest in peace.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Private Empire
“I I I actually was surprised that um that Steve Call, who wrote the book Private Empire about Exxon, said to me, and I have this in the podcast, too, that he has, you know, reported on al-Qaeda and reported on the CIA”