📚 14 Books mentioned in "Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power | Lex Fridman Podcast #167" of Lex Fridman Podcast

another one is definitely born to run for the same reason by christopher mcdougall

Sagar recommends 'Born to Run' by Christopher McDougall, relating it to running and human history.

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He's also working on this like short little thing which is uh like anarchist um handbook or something like that

Lex mentions Michael Malice is also working on a short book about anarchy.

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just like in how he built like i read a biography of him

Sagar mentions reading a biography of Elon Musk and how it influenced his thinking about building things.

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ron chernow ron chernow's grant It's a thousand pages

Sagar recommends Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S. Grant, highlighting its depth and scope.

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he showed up to this conversation with a gift of the second volume of ian kershaw's biography on hitler a two-volume set that is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest if not the greatest most definitive studies of hitler

Lex mentions Sagar brought the second volume of Ian Kershaw's biography of Hitler as a gift.

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so for example i read another one recently called mawson's will douglas mawson he was an australian

Sagar mentions reading 'Mawson's Will' about Douglas Mawson's Antarctic expedition.

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I'm obsessed with these books um by robert carro the biographies of lyndon johnson

Sagar expresses his obsession with Robert Caro's multi-volume biographies of Lyndon Johnson.

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This actually is a corollary to that which is sapiens and i know that's a very normal normie answer

Sagar mentions 'Sapiens' as a book that had an impact, acknowledging its popularity.

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the book that probably had the most impact on me which is also a historical nonfiction is i am obsessed with antarctic exploration and it all began with a book called shackleton's incredible journey which is the collection of diaries of everybody who was on shackleton's journey

Sagar mentions 'Shackleton's Incredible Journey', a collection of diaries, as the book that sparked his obsession with Antarctic exploration.

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only churchill he was the only one in the you know in the gathering storm like being like hey this is really bad

Sagar references Winston Churchill's 'The Gathering Storm' when discussing the lack of appetite for war in Britain before WWII.

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so this one um if you need a one volume rise and fall the third reich I think you talked about that william shire

Sagar mentions William Shirer's 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' as a good one-volume alternative to biographies.

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and yeah because it's it's so clearly it's like the selfish gene with darkest

Lex compares Sapiens to 'The Selfish Gene' in terms of its clarity and impact.

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and look third reich in power Let me plug it by richard uh richard evans I think is what it was because that actually will tell you like what was it like to live under the nazi regime without the war

Sagar recommends Richard Evans' 'The Third Reich in Power' for understanding life under the Nazi regime before the war.

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He's working on like a big book for a while which is white pill

Lex mentions Michael Malice is working on a book titled 'White Pill'.

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