Episode · The Rich Roll Podcast · 2023-04-03
Books mentioned on Senator Cory Booker On Unity, Hope & Healthy Food For All
Senator Cory Booker is the former mayor of Newark, New Jersey, a 2020 presidential candidate, and currently a leading voice in the United States Senate.
Cory Booker recommended Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada, and discussed Letter from Birmingham Jail by MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. and others and Judgment at Nuremberg by Abby Mann.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Letter from Birmingham Jail
Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.
Discussed“true to King's ideal that he wrote about in the letters from the Birmingham Jail that were all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a common Garment of destiny that Injustice anywhere is indeed a threat to Justice everywhere”
Where to get it
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Fist Stick Knife Gun
Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada is a powerful memoir and sociological examination of growing up amid violence in the inner city, while also outlining the foundations of the Harlem Children's Zone.
Recommended“wrote about the Harlem children's Zone wrote a book called fist stick knife gun a little thin book that's really amazing”
Where to get it
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Judgment at Nuremberg
Discussed“the best story of my life which I think about all the time is this white guy on a couch in in March almost to the day that we're recording this in in 1965 March 7th watching TV starting a law firm busy as hell watching a movie called Judgment at Nuremberg”
Where to get it
