Episode · Pod Save America · 2020-07-02
Books mentioned on Pod Save America 4th of July Mailbag
Dan Pfeiffer recommended What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer, Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson, The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, and This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust, and discussed The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh and others, and Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh. Jon Favreau recommended Nixonland by Rick Perlstein and These Truths by Jill Lepore.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Vanishing Half
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is a compelling contemporary novel that examines family, racial identity, and the choices that shape our lives through the lives of twin sisters who choose to live in very different worlds.
Discussed“so I am I just finished the vanishing half by print Bennett which was a I just okay I just started it”
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Death in Her Hands
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh is a psychological mystery novel that follows an elderly woman who stumbles upon a cryptic note in the woods and becomes obsessively entangled in the fictional murder case it describes.
Discussed“no it's it's great last week and I just started a death in her hands bio Tessa Huachuca I think I might pronounce mispronounce her name”
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Eileen
Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh is a dark, provocative debut novel about a troubled young woman working in a juvenile detention facility who becomes entangled in a sinister disappearance.
Discussed“but she is a American author who wrote a book called Eileen that won a lot of awards a few years ago”
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Nixonland
Nixonland by Rick Perlstein is a sweeping historical account that explores the turbulent political and cultural landscape of the United States during the Nixon era.
Recommended“I know dan you and Tommy both read this which is why I am Nixon land by Rick Pearlstein”
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These Truths
These Truths by Jill Lepore is a sweeping, critically acclaimed one-volume history of the United States that offers a moving and beautifully written examination of the nation's past.
Recommended“I've been reading I've been trudging my way through long book and long book long book for me and also these truths by Jill Lepore is an outstanding history of America that I would recommend to anyone I've been reading that as well”
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What It Takes
What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer is a political journalism classic that follows multiple presidential candidates through the grueling primaries of the 1988 election.
Recommended“they're sort of like three books that have been read by every person who writes about American politics who covers Merah politics every politician is read Richard Ben Kramer is what it takes which the sort of the MOT the First's all of the inside the room like glorification of strategists like campaign trail books that are you know we”
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone by Hunter S.
Recommended“the fear and loathing on the campaign trail Hunter s Thompson spoke about the 1972 presidential campaign”
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S.
Recommended“the fear and loathing on the campaign trail Hunter s Thompson spoke about the 1972 presidential campaign”
Where to get it
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The Boys on the Bus
The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse is a classic piece of journalistic non-fiction that chronicles the intense, camaraderie-filled experiences of the reporters who covered the 1972 United States presidential campaign.
Recommended“and then you know Timothy Kraus is boys on the bus about the how about the reporters covering then 72 election is sort of helps us helps you understand the modern how we got to the place where we've been covering campaigns like sports for decades now”
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson is a powerful and extensively researched historical account that chronicles the decades-long Great Migration of black citizens leaving the American South for northern and western cities.
Recommended“one is the warmth of other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson which is about the great migration and the other one is Republic of suffering which is by drew Gilpin Faust”
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This Republic of Suffering
This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust is a historical study examining how the unprecedented scale of death during the American Civil War transformed cultural, religious, and political attitudes toward mortality in the United States.
Recommended“one is the warmth of other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson which is about the great migration and the other one is Republic of suffering which is by drew Gilpin Faust that is about the effect the Civil War had on the country because of the tremendous trauma”
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