Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-08-12
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 95
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Mentioned: I Alone Can Fix It by Carol Leonnig and others and The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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I Alone Can Fix It
I Alone Can Fix It by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker is a journalistic account of the final months of the Trump administration, focusing on the chaos inside the White House and the actions of key military and civilian officials.
Discussed“there's basically this like I don't know what you call it like you could either call it like a quadomit basically or you could call it like a national unity government which is in power for two weeks basically where um Pelosi Miley who's the the chief of staff who's a general like Mike Pence, Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell”
Where to get it
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The Death of Democracy
The Death of Democracy is a historical work by Benjamin Carter Hett that examines the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Adolf Hitler to power in Germany.
Discussed“there are some unconfirmed reports that Miley and a number of other like US military highranking officers basically had like a book club and one of the books they went through in 2020 was a book about the Nazis rise to power in Germany. I I kind of suspect it might have been Death of a Democracy because that was”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“So this this is why like all the like you know the like uh uh abandon all hope ye who enter here from Dante's Inferno that's that's that's the reason that's the line everyone knows because it's in like the first couple of chapters”