Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2024-08-06
Books mentioned on Part One: Blue Dawn: A Right Wing Fantasy of Leftist Revolution
Robert sits down with Garrison to read through a brand new novel that fantasizes about the aftermath of an Antifa revolution in ... 2021.
Robert Evans discussed Patriots of Treason by David Thomas Roberts, Right-Wing Resurgence by Daryl Johnson, Texit by Bruce McNabb and others, Trump and the Resurrection of America by John Michael Chambers, Hunt It, Kill It, Drag It by David Roberts, Kill Something and Drag It Home by Robin Bull, Looks Like a Cheetah to Me by Nick Miceli, An American Carol by Chadwick Bicknell, and Blue Dawn by Blaine L. Pardoe.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Patriots of Treason
Discussed“Now, David wrote a book back in 2012 called Patriots of Treason.”
Where to get it
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Right-Wing Resurgence
Discussed“Now, the reality is that in 2009 a Homeland Security analyst named Daryl Johnson wrote a report titled Right-Wing Extremism about the danger of groups like the Oath Keepers”
Where to get it
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Texit
Discussed“Um now, their top titles like the book Texit make the case for like that makes the case for Texas secession and it sold about 10,000 copies”
Where to get it
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Trump and the Resurrection of America
Discussed“Well, Texas Monthly describes it as like books that stretch that definition with titles like Corona Fascism, Trump and the Resurrection of America, uh and Hunt It, Kill It, and Drag It Home, which is apparently a self-help book.”
Where to get it
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Hunt It, Kill It, Drag It
Discussed“Well, Texas Monthly describes it as like books that stretch that definition with titles like Corona Fascism, Trump and the Resurrection of America, uh and Hunt It, Kill It, and Drag It Home, which is apparently a self-help book.”
Where to get it
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Kill Something and Drag It Home
Discussed“Well, Texas Monthly describes it as like books that stretch that definition with titles like Corona Fascism, Trump and the Resurrection of America, uh and Hunt It, Kill It, and Drag It Home, which is apparently a self-help book.”
Where to get it
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Looks Like a Cheetah to Me
Discussed“They have a young adult book called Looks Like a Cheetah to Me that's apparently an anti-trans fairy tale, I'm sure that one's great.”
Where to get it
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An American Carol
Discussed“Chadwick Bicknell's 2022 novella, An American Carol, reimagines Ebenezer Scrooge as Alex Led Dumas, a militant gay lefty”
Where to get it
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Blue Dawn
Discussed“Now, there are a lot of hideous books these people have put out but the one we're going to actually do in this episode or maybe episodes, we'll see how it goes, is a little title named Blue Dawn.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Steppenwolf
“Steppenwolf's been pretty good but Step Steppenwolf's a fine novel but Hesse could never.”