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Books podcasts were talking about in November 2016
Books podcasts were talking about in November 2016 featured historical reflections, political analyses, and literature on military command. On The Book Review, John Williams discussed picking up Elizabeth Hardwick's late-1970s novel Sleepless Nights, while the host mentioned finding Ruth Ware's In a Dark, Dark Wood in paperback at the airport. During a war stories episode, Thomas Ricks recommended Eliot A. Cohen's Supreme Command as the premier book on the relationship between military high command and the presidency. Pamela Paul also contributed to this episode by recommending Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation to help understand current political and economic upheavals, alongside Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson's The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism. For younger readers, Maria Russo recommended Jonah Winter's picture book My Name Is James Madison Hemings and Vera Brosgol's Leave Me Alone. On Conversations with Tyler, Fuchsia Dunlop recommended the David Hawkes and John Minford translation of Dream of the Red Chamber titled The Story of the Stone for its lively approach to Chinese literature.
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Create Your Own Religion
Discussed“because a little bit like danielli in his book create your own religion he's clearly created his variation of religion that allows him to use that word you know”
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Before They Pass Away
Discussed“like I actually had the the photographer on my podcast and he was telling me about name um what is his name it's called before they pass”
The Book Review
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Thank You for Being Late
Discussed“Tom fredman has some reassurance and even some Solutions in his new book thank you for being late an optimist guide to thriving in the age of accelerations”
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How to Survive a Plague
Discussed“author and filmmaker David France finds new ways to tell the history in his book how to survive a plague”
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The Normal Heart
Discussed“Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart ends even earlier it's about the formation of the first aid service organization in 1980”
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And the Band Played on
Discussed“it's funny because my initial reaction when seeing the book was of course to think of Randy Schultz and the band played on and I was like well but that book just came out”
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Twilight of the Elites
Discussed“then because I had been thinking a lot about Chris Hayes's book The Twilight of the elites which I had read a few years ago when it came out in 2012 I wanted to return to it”
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Anti-intellectualism in American life
Discussed“so I ended up picking up the Richard hoffstad Book anti-intellectualism in American Life which seemed in some ways connected to Hay's book and started reading that a couple nights ago”
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The American political tradition
Discussed“my first Richard Hofer book which was in high school when I was a junior I for some reason I I I wanted to find what I thought was like a very serious authoritative book on American politics and so in the school library they had an extremely boring looking very stay covered the American political tradition by Richard hoffstead”
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Speedboat
Discussed“it reminds me a lot of things like rata Adler's speedboat and Jenny ael's Department of speculation from a couple of years ago”
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Dept. of Speculation
Discussed“it reminds me a lot of things like rata Adler's speedboat and Jenny ael's Department of speculation from a couple of years ago”
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The Vegetarian
Discussed“listeners will be happy to know that I finished the vegetarian Han Kang's novel so no lurd readings about dying dogs”
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Sleepless Nights
Recommended“so I picked up elizabeth Hardwick's sleepless nights which is a from the late 1970s”
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In a Dark, Dark Wood
Recommended“so I picked up a copy of in a dark dark wood which is now in paperback and apparently soon to be a major motion picture”
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Moonglow
Discussed“Michael Shaban explores this and a lot more in his latest novel Moonglow”
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Discussed“Reen cook is here to talk about her biography of elanar Rosevelt”
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Wonder Boys
Discussed“once before with a book and that was with Wonder booys out of nowhere this this family story that I'd heard a few times growing up”
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Gentlemen of the road
Discussed“even the ones that seem least likely to be so you know like a book like um gentleman of the road”
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Discussed“you know I wrote an entire 600 plus first draft of the unish policeman's Union that I put aside and started over again”
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3
Discussed“her biographer blanch cook is here to talk to me now about her new book Elanor Roosevelt the Warriors”
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Night school
Discussed“well there's a new Lee Child novel right at the top of the hard cover bestseller list”
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The Chemist
Discussed“no so uh she now adapts that Twilight model that kind of love triangle set up to a spy Thriller called the chemist that's new at number five”
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Strangers in their own land
Discussed“her book strangers in their own land which is new number 14 actually came out back in like September”
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NW
Discussed“my my two favorites are probably white teeth and NW”
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Thundersticks
Discussed“which was Thunder sticks firearms and the violent transformation of Native America by David Silverman”
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Pax Romana
Discussed“the first is pox Romana War peace and Conquest in the Roman World by Adrien goldsworthy than the Spartan regime its character Origins and Grand strategy by Paul rahy and God's armies Crusades and Jihad Origins history and aftermath by Malcolm Lambert”
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The Spartan Regime
Discussed“the first is pox Romana War peace and Conquest in the Roman World by Adrien goldsworthy than the Spartan regime its character Origins and Grand strategy by Paul rahy and God's armies Crusades and Jihad Origins history and aftermath by Malcolm Lambert”
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The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta
Discussed“the first is pox Romana War peace and Conquest in the Roman World by Adrien goldsworthy than the Spartan regime its character Origins and Grand strategy by Paul rahy and God's armies Crusades and Jihad Origins history and aftermath by Malcolm Lambert”
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God's Armies
Discussed“the first is pox Romana War peace and Conquest in the Roman World by Adrien goldsworthy than the Spartan regime its character Origins and Grand strategy by Paul rahy and God's armies Crusades and Jihad Origins history and aftermath by Malcolm Lambert”
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Braxton Bragg
Discussed“and then Braxton Bragg the most hated man of the Confederacy by Earl Hass”
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Blitzkrieg : Myth, Reality, and Hitler's Lightning War
Discussed“starting with blitz cre myth reality and Hitler's lightning war France 1940 by Lloyd Clark”
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Commander In Chief
Discussed“then commanderin-chief FDR's battle with Churchill 1943 by Nigel Hamilton”
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The Good Occupation
Discussed“um the good occupation American soldiers and the hazards of Peace by Susan KS”
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Pearl Harbor
Discussed“so I'm going now back to Pearl Harbor from infamy to Greatness by Craig Nelson coming up on the 75th anniversary”
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The General vs. the President
Discussed“and then the general versus the president MacArthur and Truman at the brink of nuclear war by HW Brands”
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Stiffed
Discussed“another book that I think was an early look at this uh that came out in 1999 was Susan fud's book stiff about the Betrayal of the American man”
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Crippled America
Discussed“and his policy Book Grade again is up to 69”
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Freedom Over Me
Discussed“there's a wonderful book called Freedom Over Me by Ashley Brian who is just you know a beloved and Veteran illustrator and author”
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In the Shadow of Liberty
Discussed“there's a book by Kenneth C Davis the popular historian don't know much about history series called in the shadow of Liberty the hidden history of slavery four presidents and five black lives”
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The Plot to Kill Hitler
Discussed“you know this is the plot to kill Hitler it's a biography really of diatric Bon Hofer the German pastor and Spy Who conspired several times to assassinate Adolf Hitler”
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Sachiko
Discussed“at the same time there's also a new book uh saiko Nagasaki bomb Survivor this is a wonderful very illustrated book”
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When the Sea Turned to Silver
Discussed“it's called when the sea turned to Silver by Grace Lynn”
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The wrong side of goodbye
Discussed“it's called the wrong side of goodbye”
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Gunslinger
Discussed“that book is called Gunslinger and it's new at number 13 in non-fiction”
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Supreme Command
Recommended“probably uh Bran's book uh MacArthur versus trumman the general versus the president but overall I'd say the single best book ever written on the relationship between military High command and the presidency is by Elliot Cohen uh a professor at John's Hopkins called Supreme command”
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The Great Transformation
Recommended“um one is the great transformation by Carl Palani which looks at um how economic upheaval gives rise to social counter movements ranging from socialism to Communism to Fascism”
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The Tea Party and the remaking of Republican conservatism
Recommended“there's a 2013 book by Thea uh scopal and Vanessa Williamson called the tea party and the remaking of Republican conservatism”
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My Name Is James Madison Hemings
Recommended“there's another one that I really like that was absolutely devastating called my name is James Madison hemings”
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Penguin problems
Recommended“and then my other favorite picture book is penguin Problems by Jory John illustrated by the great Lane Smith”
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King Baby
Recommended“and then my other favorite picture book is King Baby written and illustrated by Kate Beaton”
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The Sun is Also a Star
Recommended“for realistic fiction there's the sun is also a star which has you know immediately parked on the bestseller list”
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The Innocent Man
Discussed“I wrote a non-fiction book 10 years ago called the innocent man”
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A Painted House
Discussed“the first time I did it was a childhood Memoir called a painted house that was published I know 15 years ago”
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Skipping Christmas
Discussed“and so I wrote a book called skipping Christmas which was my first effort to be just as funny as I wanted to be”
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The Mothers
Discussed“yeah one notable newcomer on the hard cover fiction list this week is a first first novel by a writer named Britt Bennett um the book is called the mothers and that is new down at number 15”
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Shaken
Discussed“in non-fiction um the highest ranking new title is Tim tbo's Memoir shaken talking partly about being cut from the Denver Broncos”
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A lowcountry heart
Discussed“the other maybe notable title this week is uh by Pat Conroy who died this past March um there is an essay collection called a low country heart”
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Hotel du Lac
Discussed“and so then I followed that up with um Hotel Dak which was her Booker prize winning novel from the late ' 80s”
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Amsterdam
Discussed“and given the fact that it won the booker it kind of reminded me of Ian mcan's Amsterdam in that way which is it was sort of a prize given to her after many books that people really loved and admired but maybe isn't her considered widely her best by people”
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Good morning, midnight
Discussed“so he had tweeted about um a book called good night midnight”
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Jack Maggs
Discussed“I went through a little phase um some years ago of reading these kind of updated or or or spin-offs of classic Works um Peter krey has a novel called Jack mags that is all about the character mag witch from Great Expectations”
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Beowulf
Discussed“John Gardner uh did a take on Beowolf that was completely from the monsters perspective”
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The Whistler
Recommended“quick who do you think of when I say legal thriller John gam of course and he'll be here to talk about his latest book The Whistler”
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Rogue heroes
Recommended“how did the whole idea of Special Operations forces get started Ben MacIntyre will join us to talk about his new book Rogue Heroes”
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Brief lives
Recommended“the first book that I read was called brief lives”
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The year of reading dangerously
Recommended“he wrote a book called The Year of reading dangerously which is terrific”
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Wide Sargasso Sea
Recommended“um am reading a book that I had never gotten around to uh and it's a wide saraso by Jee Reese the the Caribbean British writer”
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Grendel
Recommended“John Gardner uh did a take on Beowolf that was completely from the monsters perspective the novel grindle great book”
Conversations with Tyler
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Land of fish and rice
Discussed“Your latest book, Land of Fish and Rice, in fact, focuses on Shanghai and the surrounding region, which is quite diverse.”
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Every grain of rice
Discussed“Your latest book, Land of Fish and Rice, in fact, focuses on Shanghai and the surrounding region, which is quite diverse.”
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This is London
Discussed“We were talking about books before the session started and what you'd read recently and you mentioned a book by Ben Judah called This is London, which you at least implied was underrated. What's special about that book?”
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Down and Out in Paris and London
Discussed“Um, well, it's a sort of um contemporary version of George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris in London.”
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The story of the stone
Recommended“Um, firstly read the penguin translation which is the title the story of the stone by David Hawings and John Mintton which is absolutely inspired and lively and it just I mean it really does bring it to life.”
