Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2026-08-08
Books mentioned on The Man Traveling America to Prove You Wrong About It
Ryan Holiday recommended Your Fellow Americans by Peter Santenello, Spying on the South by Tony Horwitz, The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, and How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr, and discussed A Journey through Texas by Frederick Law Olmsted and Nomadland by Jessica Bruder.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Your Fellow Americans
Recommended“She has this really great new book called Your Fellow Americans. More pumped on the country than ever before, which sounds odd to most people.”
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A Journey through Texas
Discussed“like there's this story that Robert Carro tells in in his book on Lyndon Johnson where uh one of the first sort of foreign leaders that Johnson entertains”
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Nomadland
Discussed“Have you read Nomad Land? I haven't. I've heard of it. I haven't read it. She talks about that. That's the That's the dark side of the company town”
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Spying on the South
Recommended“Tony Horowitz wrote another book where he recreates the journey. It's his last book and it's called Spying on the South. Also amazing. So take that. Thank you.”
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The Warmth of Other Suns
Recommended“Have you read The Warmth of Other Sons about the Great Migration? Have not.”
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Life on the Mississippi
Recommended“So you like that uh life on the Mississippi builds a Mississippi flatbo. Okay.”
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How to Hide an Empire
Recommended“Have you read How to Hide an Empire? No. Okay. It's a history of the greater United States.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Ghost Rider
“Ghost Rider, of course. I'm seeing them. I'm seeing them in two weeks. Me, too. Me, too.”