📚 11 Books mentioned in "What Has Happened To The Love For America? - Jack Carr" of Modern Wisdom

another thing that I've been thinking about a lot over the last two weeks uh Bill Perkins guy who wrote die with zero It's a very short book about um how to use money to enjoy life as opposed to saving indefinitely

The host mentions thinking about a book by Bill Perkins called 'Die with Zero' and describes its theme.

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And I talked about my first book and about a paragraph maybe two in that first novel and I've had a lot of people reach out and tell me that that paragraph in particular meant so much to them because they hadn't really been able to conceptualize or articulate uh some of how they felt by doing the job downrange and by reading those paragraphs it made it okay

Jack Carr discusses a specific paragraph in his first novel, describing the sense of relief felt in combat, and how readers connected with it.

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Found a little cabin not too far away and I thought I was going to do it for this last book for only the dead and then I got up there and it's about a mile from our house I can actually see the house from this little cabin

Jack Carr mentions the location where he planned to write his latest book, 'Only The Dead'.

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I knew a little bit about it but not nearly as much as I did after I read those that book which led me to two other books and then multiple conversations with Brian Mora about it

Jack Carr mentions reading a book by Brian Mora about the Able Archer event, which informed his research.

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and then I pulled some some really late nights uh and pulled a couple all-nighters which are getting harder to do the older I get uh for Savage son a few books back no no problem

Jack Carr mentions pulling all-nighters while writing his book 'Savage Son'.

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so he's fascinating and The Accidental superpower was one that I read on the way to Mozambique back then in the summer fall of 2016 when I got out of the military and really informed my second novel True Believer

Jack Carr mentions reading Peter Zeihan's book 'The Accidental Superpower' and how it influenced his second novel.

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I thought of that John Grisham story about he wrote A Time to Kill first and he couldn't give that book away and then he writes the firm and we've had a John Grisham novel every year in some years two John Christian novels every year since

Jack Carr recounts the story of John Grisham writing 'A Time to Kill' before finding success with 'The Firm'.

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I thought of that John Grisham story about he wrote A Time to Kill first and he couldn't give that book away and then he writes the firm and we've had a John Grisham novel every year in some years two John Christian novels every year since

Jack Carr recounts the story of John Grisham writing 'The Firm' after 'A Time to Kill' and finding success.

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and that's what I'm in my last in in the blood that's what I wanted to write a sniper-centric novel last time without that uh scene of two snipers on opposite hillsides or buildings that are looking for each other and then they're looking and then they find each other at the last second and one guy shoots and it goes through the other guy's scope just before he can shoot

Jack Carr mentions his novel 'In The Blood' and how he wanted to write a sniper-centric story without a common trope.

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so I submitted the second one True Believer and they took out they took well I had to push the publication date because it wasn't 30 days

Jack Carr mentions submitting his second novel, 'True Believer', for government review.

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Have a non-fiction book come coming out on Beirut the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing there's the pot there's all those things

Jack Carr announces an upcoming non-fiction book he is writing about the 1983 Beirut Barracks bombing.

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