Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2018-07-05

Books mentioned on Part Two: The Film Directing Playboy King Who Handed His Country to Pol Pot

2 books · With Caitlin Gill · Listen · Watch on YouTube

In Part Two of Episode 10, Robert is joined again by comedian Caitlin Gill and they continue to discuss the life of the crazy King of Cambodia who made terrible movies and influenced Pol Pot to do terrible things. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.

Robert Evans discussed Anatomy of Terror by Andrew Sinclair and Pol Pot by Philip Short.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. Anatomy of Terror

   Anatomy of Terror

   Andrew Sinclair · at 10:28 · mentioned 2 times

   Discussed

   “Uh this is a quote from that book Anatomy of Terror. Uh in August 1957, he summoned the leaders of the Democratic Party, whose continued existence afforded a kind of vicarious protection for all of the left-wing views”

   Robert Evans Part Two: The Film Directing Playboy King Who Handed His Country to Po… 2018-07-05 Listen at 10:28

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   Pol Pot

   Philip Short · at 13:57 · mentioned 3 times

   Pol Pot: The Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short is a comprehensive historical examination of the Cambodian genocide, the Khmer Rouge regime, and the cultural backdrop that enabled such devastation.

   Discussed

   “One of the things that the the book Polepot points out is that uh there's a a word in the Kam language um the word for to reign for like to be the king of a country translates literally as to eat the kingdom”

   Robert Evans Part Two: The Film Directing Playboy King Who Handed His Country to Po… 2018-07-05 Listen at 13:57

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