Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2026-05-12
Books mentioned on Part One: H.L. Hunt: The First Elon Musk
This week Robert begins the three-part story of the former wealthiest man on earth, H.L.
Robert Evans discussed Kingdom by Jerome Tuccille, It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand by Jerome Tuccille, What's Fair on the Air? by Heather Hendershot, and Trump by Jerome Tuccille.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Kingdom
Discussed“And I could only find one biography that was written about him, uh which was the book Kingdom. And it's actually it was published after he died.”
Where to get it
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It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand
Discussed“In 1971, he published his first book, It Usually Begins with Iron Rand, a libertarian odyssey, which is a book about how he went from an angry lapsed Catholic looking for a new religion to an objectivist libertarian.”
Where to get it
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What's Fair on the Air?
What's Fair on the Air? by Heather Hendershot is an academic study examining the historical intersections of broadcast media, political ideology, and regulatory policies in the United States.
Discussed“She devotes a chapter to Hunt and she writes this that he had nursed at his mother's breast until the age of seven was a point of pride further evidence of his innate specialness.”
Where to get it
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Trump
Discussed“Another written in 1985 was Trump, the saga of America's most powerful real estate baron. This is the first published biography of our current president.”
Where to get it
