Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2018-07-12
Books mentioned on Part Two: Qaddafi: His Bizarre Sci-Fi Stories, Childhood Hate Crimes and Amazonian Bodyguard Fetish
Robert is joined again by David Bell and they continue discuss the insane life of the controversial former leader of Libya, Muammar Qaddafi. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.
Robert Evans discussed Libya by Alison Pargeter and Escape to hell and other stories by Muammar Qaddafi.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Libya
Libya by Alison Pargeter is a historical nonfiction work detailing the political rise and fall of Muammar Gaddafi alongside the complex internal dynamics of the Libyan state.
Discussed“So the wonderful book uh Libya: The Rise and Fall of Gaddafi argues that Reagan's obsession with Gaddafi actually helped the Colonel. He'd been widely unliked uh before this point.”
Where to get it
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Escape to hell and other stories
Discussed“Um so like Saddam Hussein, by the mid1 1990s, Kaddafi seemed to have soured on being a dictator. He turned to the warm embrace of writing and in 1993 published a collection of short stories titled Escape to Hell.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged A (brief) history of vice
“Uh you can also find my book on Amazon, A Brief History of Vice. David himself appears in it. Uh true. I don't want to go into too much detail, but there's a hospital visit involved.”