Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2024-02-22
Books mentioned on The Story of the Nuclear Boy Scout
David Hahn was a kid who was really into science. So much that he built a nuclear reactor in his mother's potting shed.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque is a classic anti-war novel that chronicles the harrowing experiences and profound disillusionment of young German soldiers on the front lines of World War I.
Discussed“But my reading teacher was also the social studies teacher, and I guess that explains why all of our reading lists included Animal Farm, Hiroshima, All Quiet on the Western Front, and you know it. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a powerful book.”
Where to get it
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm is a classic satirical novella by George Orwell that allegorically depicts the rise of totalitarianism through the story of farm animals who overthrow their human master.
Discussed“But my reading teacher was also the social studies teacher, and I guess that explains why all of our reading lists included Animal Farm, Hiroshima, All Quiet on the Western Front, and you know it. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a powerful book.”
Where to get it
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The Jungle
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a muckraking novel exposing the brutal working and sanitary conditions inside the early twentieth-century American meatpacking industry.
Discussed“But my reading teacher was also the social studies teacher, and I guess that explains why all of our reading lists included Animal Farm, Hiroshima, All Quiet on the Western Front, and you know it. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a powerful book.”
Where to get it
