Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2021-03-14
Books mentioned on #167 – Saagar Enjeti: Politics, History, and Power
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Lex Fridman recommended Hitler by Ian Kershaw, and discussed The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Saagar Enjeti recommended The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans, Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson Set by Robert A. Caro, Grant by Ron Chernow, Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing, Endurance; Shackleton's incredible voyage by Alfred Lansing, Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, and Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, and discussed Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, Geek Silicon Valley by Ashlee Vance, The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill, Dear Reader by Michael Malice, and Mawson's Will by Lennard Bickel.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Hitler
Ian Kershaw's massive, definitive two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler provides an exhaustive historical examination of the dictator's life, rise to power, and the regime he forged.
Recommended“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”
Where to get it
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L.
Recommended“the third reich right i think you talked about that william shire”
Where to get it
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler that outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
Discussed“so he he helped hitler write minecon and he was like slavishly devoted to him in prison this is 1925 or something like that and so you read that and you're like well how does he get this like crank wacko to basically believe he's like the second coming help him write this book i mean literally they lived together”
Where to get it
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The Third Reich in Power
The Third Reich in Power by Richard J.
Recommended“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”
Where to get it
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Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson Set
Robert A.
Recommended“I'm obsessed with these books um by robert carro the biographies of lyndon johnson”
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Geek Silicon Valley
Discussed“just like in how he built like i read a biography of him”
Where to get it
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The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm by Winston Churchill is the first volume of the author's celebrated war memoirs, chronicling the escalating threats and political miscalculations that led to the Second World War.
Discussed“only churchill he was the only one in the you know in the gathering storm like being like hey this is really bad”
Where to get it
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Dear Reader
Dear Reader by Michael Malice is an insightful, dark exploration of North Korea through the lens of its propaganda and the personality cult surrounding Kim Jong Il.
Discussed“He's also working on this like short little thing which is uh like anarchist um handbook or something like that”
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Grant
Grant by Ron Chernow is an exhaustive, thousand-page biography chronicling the life and times of Civil War general and U.S.
Recommended“ron chernow ron chernow's grant It's a thousand pages”
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Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing is a gripping historical non-fiction account of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton.
Recommended“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”
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Endurance; Shackleton's incredible voyage
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing is a gripping historical account of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated 1914 Antarctic expedition and the crew's remarkable survival against impossible odds.
Recommended“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”
Where to get it
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Mawson's Will
Discussed“i read another one recently called mawson's will douglas mawson”
Where to get it
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Sapiens
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari is a sweeping narrative that traces the evolutionary and historical development of the human species from prehistoric bands to modern civilizations.
Recommended“This actually is a corollary to that which is sapiens and i know that's a very normal normie answer”
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The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins is a foundational work of popular science that presents a gene-centric view of evolution, arguing that natural selection operates primarily at the level of genes rather than individuals or species.
Discussed“and yeah because it's it's so clearly it's like the selfish gene with darkest”
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Born to Run
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall is a celebrated exploration of endurance running, human evolution, and the remarkable Tarahumara tribe of Mexico.
Recommended“another one is definitely born to run for the same reason by christopher mcdougall which is that i'm just gonna listen to this whole podcast next week”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“He's working on like a big book for a while which is white pill”