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Books podcasts were talking about in July 2024
Podcasts throughout July 2024 featured a diverse range of literary recommendations and discussions across various popular shows. On How I Write, The Cultural Tutor recommended Lucian of Samosata's text, specifically highlighting How to Write History as an extended letter containing some of the funniest and best writing advice available. Meanwhile, historical and political texts also drew attention on political commentary programs. Candace Owens appeared on Candace to recommend Leonard Dinnerstein's comprehensive account, The Leo Frank Case, pointing out a specific passage regarding an outburst during the hearing. On The Ezra Klein Show, Gretchen Whitmer joined the host to share reading suggestions, highlighting Kara Swisher's Burn Book alongside other notable titles. Later in the month on the same podcast, guest Ben Wickler spoke with Ezra Klein about several works, offering recommendations that included Finding Freedom: The Untold Story of Joshua Glover Freedom Seeker by Ruby West Jackson and Walter T. McDonald, as well as William Goldman's classic novel The Princess Bride for readers seeking joy and laughter. Fiction and practical guides were highlighted on Modern Wisdom, where Chris Williamson discussed Freida McFadden's thriller The Housemaid and later mentioned James Smith's work How to Be Confident during a conversation about building genuine self-assurance. Finally, health and lifestyle literature gained exposure when Steven Bartlett closed an episode of The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett by directing listeners to Dr. Aseem Malhotra's health plan publication, The Pioppi Diet, linking the work in the show notes for his audience.
The Megyn Kelly Show
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Second Class
Discussed“she's literally written a book on this is called second class you can see it over her right shoulder on the screen”
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Ask Not
Discussed“And by the way, we just did an in-depth piece with Moren Callahan, who wrote the book 'Ask Not', which is all about the Kennedy family. She goes in depth on how that whole thing of Camelot, you know, between Jackie and Jack, was made up; it was made up by Jackie just to make their relationship look better after”
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Just the Good Stuff
Discussed“Joining me now, Jim VandeHei—he's the co-founder and CEO of Axios, and he's also the author of the recently released book "Just the Good Stuff: No BS Secrets to Success." Jim, welcome to the show!”
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A Child Called It
Discussed“and I try to you know there's there's this book that I read when I was a teenager I think it's called a child called it and you may have read this book but it's about I think a truly sort of Psychopathic almost torturing mother in the way that she treated her kid”
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Bowling Alone
Discussed“There was a guy, forgive me, I can't remember his name, Jesse, who wrote the book 'Bowling Alone' back in '95, around that time. He talked about how our society was getting more and more fragmented and isolated from each other, staying at home and watching TV too much, not going out to join the bowling league.”
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Ship of Fools
Discussed“I I'll watch some of these press conferences it reminds me of a book they made me read in college called Ship of Fools a bunch of desperate people sailing into disaster”
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The End of Alzheimer's Programme
Recommended“Dr. Dale Bredesen is the senior director of precision brain health at the Pacific Neuroscience Institute and the author of the book End of Alzheimer's, which is actually an amazing read with so much information you should get it irrespective of your thoughts about President Biden.”
The Charlie Kirk Show
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The Jefferson Bible
Discussed“so we disagree with thas Jefferson with a Jeffersonian Bible”
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Premarital Sex in America
Discussed“statistically two guys from Yale wrote this book premarital sex in America and promiscuity is is directly correlated with serious mental health problems”
Timcast IRL
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The Keys to the White House
Discussed“this is the the keys to the White House is a prediction system for determining the outcome of presidential elections United States it was developed by Alan liman and Russian geophysicist Vladimir kyus borak in 1981”
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The Unruly Woman
Discussed“The unruly woman gender and the genres of laughter the media scholar Kathleen Kathleen R Carlin remarks that when women laugh on film and television they reframe themselves as subjects rather than objects asserting their right to an emotional response”
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Unhumans
Recommended“I encourage everyone to read Jack posa's new book which I can't type because Google remember go to the gym it is unhuman”
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von
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Barack Obama in his own words
Discussed“There were many tries for peace treaties, but Obama said it best in his book. He said the problem with Israel and Palestine is that one of them is very strong and one side is very weak, and there's nothing that compels me to give you land.”
How I Write
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The Stones of Venice
Discussed“So this is volume one of the stones of Venice his seinal work about notionally about Venetian architecture really it's almost like this sort of beautiful encyclopedic synthesis of architecture itself and it was one of the most influential books of the 19th century”
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Lucian: Preface List of Lucians works How to write history The dipsads Saturnalia Herodotus or Aetion Zeuxis or Antiochus A slip of the tongue in greeting Apology for the salaried posts in great houses Harmonides A conversation with Hesiod The scythian or the consul Hermotimus or concerning the sects The one who said you are a Prometheus in words The ship or the wishes Index
Recommended“It's an extended letter, which is usually called How to Write History. Really funny. some of the best writing advice you'll ever read. I would advise all your all all your listeners to read it.”
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Post office
Discussed“Bukowski worked as a postman for 20 years, and he wrote Post Office.”
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Conflict
Recommended“The there's this really good book called Conflict and Suspense and it's part of the elements of fiction writing series which is a wonderful series. highly highly recommend it even for non-fiction writers”
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Suspense
Recommended“The there's this really good book called Conflict and Suspense and it's part of the elements of fiction writing series which is a wonderful series. highly highly recommend it even for non-fiction writers”
Candace
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The Leo Frank Case
Recommended“You can actually look at this book that was written as the comprehensive account of the Leo Frank case by a man named Leonard Dinerstein. and he shows this um passage that Leo Frank's mother stood up and had an outburst in the middle of the hearing referring to them as Christian dogs.”
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon
Discussed“reading chaos and reading something else called a funny thing happened on a way to the Moon”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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The dark side of Camelot
Discussed“so sear H who has been around DC since the 60s I believe he wrote The Dark Side of Camelot if I'm not mistaken”
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Trickster Makes This World
Recommended“It's interesting because I've been reading that rereading my favorite book trickster makes this world and how the trickster what was that who wrote that uh Lewis Hyde it's all about trick”
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The man without a face
Discussed“But like if you read—I was reading a Putin book, and literally every chapter just ends with a guy going out in his hallway and getting shot in the face! And I’m like, this seems like a pretty fucked-up rise to power!”
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Putin. L'uomo senza volto
Discussed“I was reading a Putin book and literally every chapter just ends with a guy like the like going out in his hallway and getting shot in the face and I'm like this seems like a pretty [ __ ] up rise to power you know oh Putin had the most [ __ ] up rise to power that woman”
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Wine and war
Discussed“I just read another amazing book called wine and War and it's a history of like the wine business during the Nazi occupation during World War II unimaginable wild [ __ ] going on and but the French people you know because Germans they knew as well like you know what's what's the blood of France is the wine what”
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A path here no man thought
Discussed“Words of Carl Sagan, who is the author of Nuclear Winter.”
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Surprise, Kill, Vanish
Discussed“Someone was asking me about my book, 'Surprise, Kill, Vanish,' about the CIA's paramilitary guys, the Ground Branch, the snake eaters.”
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Twilight of the elites
Discussed“Well, uh, Barack Obama talked about how just being in the room with the donor class changes you; just being in the room with—and Chris Hayes wrote a book called 'The Twilight of the Elite' about how all that happens, and then he became the thing he wrote about.”
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The Undiscovered Self
Discussed“I've had, uh... so I was reading this book called The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung, and it's amazing how it fits what's happening right now today!”
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Mysterium Coniunctionis
Discussed“I was reading a book called The Mysterium Coniunctio that he wrote, and it took me like a week just... just the opening paragraph just to keep going and I'm like, what the f***!”
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Moderner Mythus
Discussed“What is Carl Jung's book on flying saucers called? But he had this concept about flying saucers; he thinks they're... they're constructs of the mind, but not necessarily that they're not real!”
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Flying Saucers
Discussed“yeah I Tried reading his book on flying saucers oh really yeah what is uh Carl Young's book on flying saucers called but he had this concept about flying saucers he thinks they're they're constructs of the mind but not necessarily that they're not real”
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Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken
Recommended“I think the best book to start with Carl Jung is my memories, dreams, reflections, which is his biography and he wrote... mhm!”
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Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Recommended“I think the people the best book to start with Carl Young is me memories dreams Reflections which is his biography”
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Jack Herer's the Emperor Wears No Clothes
Discussed“yeah the hemperor yeah yeah the hemperor yeah he's a a famous marijuana activist and researcher and and he wrote this book this guy was a like a Goldwater Republican and then uh met this lady and they were smoking a little marijuana together hanging out and like all of a sudden he gets it and he goes oh my”
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The Emperor Wears No Clothes
Discussed“do you guys know the story of jack harer oh the the emperor wears no clothes the hemp guy yeah the hemperor yeah the hemperor yeah he's a a famous marijuana activist and researcher and and he wrote this book”
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The Emperor of Scent
Discussed“so there's an entire book called The Emperor of scent about the academic like all the people who try to push you down they're trying to push Luc aturan down as if he doesn't know what's going on he's he's he's written the Bible of perfume”
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Spawn: Origins Volume 1 (New Printing)
Discussed“it's sort of like Todd McFarland's spawn in spawn”
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Discussed“in other versions it's a little more like the cabinet of Dr Caligari do you guys remember that one man”
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Rain
Recommended“But we do owe a shout-out to the amazing author Cynthia Barnett, who wrote "Rain: A Natural and Cultural History." You guys know, longtime listeners, we love books about cartoonishly specific things!”
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Henry V
Discussed“one of my favorite speeches in all of Shakespeare it's from the the history of Henry V and it's called The crisen Day speech”
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Henry IV, part 2
Discussed“Richard II u Henry IV part one and two u and Henry ith those he wrote later”
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Economics For Dummies
Critiqued“Yeah, Economics for Dummies, which I think is a mean non-answer when someone asks why the healthcare system is so broken. It's like, 'Let me Google that for you.'”
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Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain
Discussed“The American book by asander and Schroeder these two journalists wrote a book in 1970 called psychic discoveries behind the Iron Curtain and they revealed a lot of the work that was going on in the Soviet Union”
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The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators
Discussed“they wrote a publication called index of leading cultural indicators”
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Issues
Discussed“referring to this thing that they wrote called issues the candidates briefing book which was the sim a similar thing”
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Mandate for Leadership
Discussed“they would love to give you a copy of mandate for leadership a conservative promise”
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After the Revolution
Recommended“There's an excellent novel by our pal Robert Evans, a good friend of the show, called It Could Happen Here. It is a continuing podcast as well, so please do check it out.”
Behind the Bastards
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The Kennedys
Discussed“this one in 1980 is his Uncle Ted's reelection campaign David Horowitz future co-writer of the book The kennedies was with him for this and even though Bobby had a girlfriend at the time Horowitz later wrote”
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A Curious History of Vegetables
Discussed“The book quote a curious history of vegetables by Wolf D. Stol has numerous asparagus anecdotes to enjoy if you're into that sort of thing. And also contains this quote by modern-day plant experts Fritz Martin Engel.”
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Barbara Walters
Discussed“Yeah, get you another turtle, I spent my time expressing issues with Oppenheimer's biography, but I do think his description of this trip, this second death safari, can ask how damned weird it was with professional 35mm cameras, Bobby and Billings documented their African adventure, which also included a rafting trip to Egypt's Valley of the Kings and oddly a”
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The Riverkeepers
Discussed“as an adult one of the sources we have on Bobby's life is this book called The River Keepers which he co-writes I think and it's related to”
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The patriarch
Discussed“his biographer David Nassau claims to have found no hard or even very soft evidence of like bootlegging in researching his book The patriarch”
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The Private Life of the Queen
Discussed“from a passage from the private life of the queen by quote one of her majesty's servants written in 1897 quote her majesty queen Victoria takes delight in a clever riddle or reebus”
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Doublets: A Word-Puzzle. By Lewis Carroll. Third Edition
Discussed“In Charles Dawson's or Lewis Carol's 1880 book, Dublets, a word puzzle, there are examples of this where he says to quote drive pig into sty raise four to five, make wheat into bread.”
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The Exeter Book
Discussed“The exit book is an 11th century old English manuscript and it's the largest and perhaps oldest known manuscript of old English literature containing about a sixth of all the old English poetry that has survived until today.”
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Thinking Inside the Box
Discussed“Author Adrienne Rafell, who wrote the book Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords of the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them, wrote in the Paris Review in 2020, quote, "If you're a piece of artificial intelligence software, you might have a hard time solving a cross word.”
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Destroying Yemen
Discussed“Um there's a very good book about this. Uh it's it's by uh Issa Bloommy called destroying Yemen which is about like a lot of the factors that start the war in Yemen”
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Ten Stupid Things Men Do to Mess Up Their Lives
Discussed“in 1994 I think 94 95 she publishes the advice book 10 stupid things men do to mess up their lives”
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The proper care and feeding of marriage
Discussed“another user in that subreddit mentioned reading uh one of Dr Laura's other bestsellers the proper care and feeding of husbands and it was in this book that Dr Laura publicly espoused her belief that women have an ethical objection to have sex with their husbands even if they don't want to have sex”
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Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands
Discussed“another user in that subreddit mentioned reading uh one of Dr Laura's other bestsellers the proper care and feeding of husbands and it was in this book that Dr Laura publicly espoused her belief that women have an ethical objection to have sex with their husbands even if they don't want to have sex”
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The Sexual Politics of Meat
Recommended“with Carol J Adams author of um the sexual politics of meat who was harassed and doxed for weeks and like an entire Summer by rash Limba back in the day”
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Ten stupid things women do to mess up their lives
Discussed“I read it. Dr. Laura's book, which we hear from this episode, is Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess Up Their Lives.”
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Girl, Wash Your Face
Discussed“Now he takes things from that book, Girl, Wash Your Face—you remember that one? Yeah, no, Dr. Laura's book is—yeah, that's a different one.”
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Dr. Laura
Discussed“And she is the author of Dr. Laura: The Unauthorized Biography—a revealing look at the hidden life of radio phenomenon Dr. Laura Schlesinger—which for reasons I cannot explain has an anarchist flag as its background!”
StarTalk Radio
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Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past
Discussed“And recently you have a book, sensibly titled 'Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past'.”
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Satellite remote sensing for archaeology
Discussed“And is this true? You wrote a textbook, the first textbook on satellite archaeology?”
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Night thoughts of a classical physicist
Discussed“One of my favorite stories is from the book 'Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist.' Oh yeah, LS...oh no, that's not it, or maybe it's not; I'm misremembering. Either it was fiction or I remember it as a memoir from Ernest Rutherford, who first showed how empty the atom is by passing...was it neutrons or alpha particles?”
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The Chandra X-ray Observatory
Discussed“I heard a story once uh one of uh my colleagues uh senior colleagues was working with the Chandra x-ray Observatory and what he said was the hardest thing for the flight engineers and the aeronautic Engineers to work on is actually measuring things like the roll pitch and yaw of the telescope as it's orbiting the Earth”
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Gravitation and cosmology: principles and applications of the general theory of relativity
Discussed“I noticed you have his book right there, right behind Chuck. Yeah, that's right here; that is the book I learned cosmology from. I was an experimentalist at Fermilab, gravitation, and cosmology principles and applications of the general theory of relativity.”
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Billions & Billions
Discussed“you did say billions and billions the man wrote a book called billions and billions”
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The Hidden Reality
Discussed“hidden reality yeah that was about multiple universes”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Burn Book
Recommended“burn book by Caris swisser is a great book and I mean classic To Kill a Mocking Bird”
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The Reasoning Voter
Discussed“there's a a book which I preview will recommend later by a political scientist named Samuel Popkin and it's called the reasoning voter”
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Finding Freedom
Recommended“It's a book called Finding Freedom the untold story of Joshua Glover Freedom Seeker It's by Ruby West Jackson and Walter McDonald”
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The Princess Bride
Recommended“but it wasn't until I was an adult that I read the book uh The Princess Bride Is by William Goldman”
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Tired of Winning
Recommended“so the first book I'd recommend is from my friend Jonathan Carl over at ABC News and it's the final book that he wrote about Donald Trump the most recent book it's called tired of winning”
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Kingdom of Rage
Recommended“the second book especially in light of what we saw on Saturday with the assassination attempt is a book by Elizabeth Newman called Kingdom of rage and Elizabeth who's a former counterterrorism official she writes really beautifully and eloquently about the threat of domestic terrorism”
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Romney
Recommended“um and my third book is actually by a colleague of mine at the Atlantic McKay cins he wrote this biography called Romney a reckoning and spent a ton of time with Mitt Romney”
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The Green Ember
Recommended“it's called the green Ember it's actually given to me by my team because they knew I like reading to my kids and it is about rabbits fighting with swords”
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Into the Bright Sunshine
Recommended“I'm going to recommend first a great book into the bright Sunshine young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights It's by Samuel G fredman and it is basically a biography of Hubert Humphrey up until the 1948 Democratic Convention when he Maneuvers with the Americans for Democratic action to put a civil rights plank a strong civil rights”
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Hollywood's America
Recommended“and then for a third book this is a little I'd say like left field of these two books which are these two previous books which are very much about Party politics but I I read Stephen Han a story in his new book a liberal America which stretches back to America's the country's Colonial Origins to the Pres to”
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Wide Awake
Recommended“a second book is Wide Awake the Forgotten force that elected Lincoln and spurred the Civil War this is about the wide awakes a kind of Quasi military force of young men who were Ardent Lincoln partisans in the 1860 election and the book very much about the Republican party of that era and it sort of partisan the Republican”
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Illiberal America
Recommended“and then for a third book this is a little I'd say like left field of these two books which are these two previous books which are very much about Party politics but I I read Stephen Han a story in his new book a liberal America which stretches back to America's the country's Colonial Origins to the Pres to”
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The Truths We Hold
Discussed“She Wrote a book when she was in California called smart on crime which really you know you read it it sounds more like a tough on crime book but that was no longer relevant as her advisers told her to her interest in the presidential campaign”
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Southerners, a Journalist's Odyssey
Recommended“so then always our final question what are three books you'd recommend to the audience so the first book I recommend is called Southerners by Marshall Fred”
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The Company She Keeps
Recommended“the third I would recommend um is the company she keeps by Mary McCarthy”
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Southerners
Recommended“so the first book I recommend is called Southerners by Marshall Fred”
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The Sheltering Sky
Recommended“my second is the Sheltering Sky by Paul Bulls which I would describe as a novel about existential despair if um that entices any listen”
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Primary Politics
Discussed“she's been on the DNC rule Rules Committee for many years she's the author of the book on this primary politics and she's a senior fellow at Brookings”
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Abraham Lincoln and His Mailbag
Discussed“and so it reminds me a bit of something that I love from that Lincoln book Edward acorn's book um the Lincoln miracle and he quotes Charles suner who is a senator at that point sending a welcome message to the delegates whose Duty it is to organize Victory which I just think is such a great quote about what”
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The Making of the President 1960
Recommended“I go to next the making of the president 1960 by Theodore White which is about that election and there's lots of background stuff on how John Kennedy won the Democratic nomination and how Richard Nixon won the Republican nomination”
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Quiet Revolution
Recommended“and I'd end with quiet Revolution by Byron schaer which is the inside story of the movern Fraser commission”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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The shape of the river
Discussed“You were asking questions; for me, I think I fell out of favor when Bowen and Bok published "The Shape of the River" and I started talking about affirmative action. I wrote an op-ed piece favoring class-based, race-neutral affirmative action; that was not what the elites wanted and marked part of the beginning of the end for me.”
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Feminism against Progress
Discussed“I had the chance today to talk to Mary Harrington, author of 'Feminism Against Progress', published in 2023.”
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Sex and the single girl
Discussed“But the feminism which falls out of Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl in the 1960s, which is really the girl boss feminism, is the feminism of Cosmopolitan magazine, and it's really a thin ideological veneer over what is fundamentally, as you say, a hedonistic project.”
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Gender
Discussed“I've drawn from Ivan nich's 1980 book gender in the book to to to to understand the the transition which illich reads and I agree with him as as really a not not a not a moment of empowerment but as as a significant loss of agency”
Freakonomics Radio
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The streets were paved with gold
Discussed“One of my favorite stories about this, and this is quoted by Ken Auletta in 'The Streets Were Paved with Gold,' cites Nat Sherman, the famous tobacconist, who said that he paid, I forget what it was, $355 a month for a six-room apartment. He said, 'Isn't that amazing?'”
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Roofs Or Ceilings?
Discussed“the first major paper was written in 1946 by Milton fredman and George Stigler here's Freedman rent control is a law that supposedly is passed to help the people who are in housing and it does help those who are in current housing”
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Making a Spectacle
Discussed“she is also o the author of a book called making a spectacle fashionable history of glasses”
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The Curse of Bigness
Discussed“Tim woo published a book about this in 2018 called The Curse of bigness antitrust in the new Gilded Age in the late 19th century where all starts”
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General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
Discussed“The single best chapter on behavioral finance was written by John Maynard Keynes in 'The General Theory,' which was written in 1936.”
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Foundations of Economic Analysis
Discussed“and samelson in particular he was a University of Chicago undergraduate and then went off to graduate school and his thesis was called foundations of economic analysis so all he did was redo all of Economics properly”
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On Competition
Discussed“he's written Landmark books called competitive strategy and on competition he is cited more than any other scholar in the field”
Modern Wisdom
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The Housemaid
Recommended“I mean for anyone who wants to read the housemade uh the book uh skip forward by about 90 seconds”
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How to Be Confident
Recommended“James's book how to be confident is actually really really good”
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The Divided Mind
Recommended“one is called The Divided mind another one is called healing back pain”
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The Quark
Discussed“and I think there's a great Quark in the Jaguar which was written by a Nobel scientist I think that's the name of it talks about this”
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The Jaguar
Discussed“and I think there's a great Quark in the Jaguar which was written by a Nobel scientist I think that's the name of it talks about this”
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Mass effect 2
Discussed“it's a shame because in you know I think there's a game Mass Effect 2 which has a Quantum Communicator in it”
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The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God
Discussed“I've got a friend Justin Bry who just wrote a book called The surprising Rebirth of belief in God why new atheism grew old and secular thinkers are considering Christian it again or something like that”
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Fluke
Recommended“uh where do you want to send people on the internet 5367.9 well it's uh fluke is the book 5369.3 and uh I I write a newsletter about eclectic topics”
The Book Review
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The Ambassadors
Discussed“I was really interested to read the Illusions to Henry James's 1903 novel The ambassadors because I had in the time since read that she deliberately modeled at least a setup on that”
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John Henry Days
Discussed“in the case of me my second book John Henry Days made a big splash and I got and I gained some foreign Publishers”
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The intuitionist
Discussed“I reread the intuitionist I was I was writing something about it and that came out in 99 and I was struck by one my excessive use of adjectives and and two I felt that young Coulson was trying to get at something”
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Discussed“I was exposed to one of the most famous ones is by Harriet Jacobs incidents in the life of a slave girl and she writes about the particular hell of the female slave”
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Zone One
Discussed“and I think if I look back at Zone one the zombie novel which was the fix the novel I wrote before underground ro road and then nickel boy”
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The Crying of Lot 49
Recommended“it would be crying abot 49”
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Drown
Recommended“it would be Juno Diaz's drown the rings of Saturn and stuff I've”
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The book of lists
Recommended“it is the book of lists by David malachinski Irving and Amy Wallace it is a compendium of the most useful knowledge in the world”
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The Magicians
Discussed“Lev is the author of several novels most notably the trilogy of fantasy books that begin with The Magicians”
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The Magician King
Discussed“as I was going through my copies of your books last night the magician Trilogy I I did note that the epigraph to your second book The Magician King is from Sir Thomas mallerie's version of this story”
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Le Morte d'Arthur
Discussed“epigraph to your second book The Magician King is from Sir Thomas mallerie's version of this story”
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The Once and Future King
Discussed“like a lot of people I fell in love with Arthur through Sword in the Stone the th White and The Once and Future King which is that sort of Novel cycle that he wrote”
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The Mists of Avalon
Discussed“and then I went on and I read mallerie and M Avalon and Rosary s Cliffe”
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Idylls of the King
Discussed“probably Tennyson idles of the king as the high water mark of that”
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Discussed“there is a book that is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year it came out in 2004 and that's a book called Jonathan strange and Mr norl which I know you have talked about in the past”
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The Winter King
Recommended“the one that states with me is the winter King by Vernard Cornwell amazing book”
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Seeds of Change
Discussed“there's this marvelous book called by a man called hubhouse I think called seeds of change about the six vegetables or six seeds that changed the world”
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Discussed“the taste of Empire how Britain's quest for food shaped the modern world by Lizzy collingham and a thirst for Empire how t-shaped the modern world by Erica Rapaport”
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The fifth child
Discussed“I am reading a novel called the fifth child by Doris lesing”
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Elmet
Discussed“it's a debut novel that I reviewed uh this week called elmet by Fiona Mosley who's a 29-year-old British writer who sets this story in the Yorkshire Countryside”
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The Orchard Keeper
Discussed“I picked up Cormac McCarthy's first novel I've been meaning to go back and reread some of his books I haven't read this one before called The Orchard keeper published in 1965”
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Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process
Discussed“the first one is draft number four by John MC and he's actually my professor at Princeton and so I'm rereading it for nostalgic reasons”
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Anowa
Discussed“and the second anoa was published in 1970 I read the book sort of backwards”
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The Fire Is upon Us
Discussed“Nicholas bua will be here to talk about his book The Fire is upon us”
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How We Fight For Our Lives
Discussed“poet and now memoirist say Jones will be here to talk about his book how we fight for our lives”
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Poems: North & south
Discussed“one interesting thing is that Elizabeth Bishop spent about a decade in her life in Key West and she wrote her first poetry collection there North and South and so it really had a huge influence on her work”
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The Liars' Club
Discussed“so you know I paid and Mary Carr her work is just really important to me so I read a lot about and it's great right because you know those like the Liars club and Cherry have been out for years”
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Cherry
Discussed“so you know I paid and Mary Carr her work is just really important to me so I read a lot about and it's great right because you know those like the Liars club and Cherry have been out for years”
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Mrs Delany
Discussed“I'm reading a book called Mrs Delaney a Life by Clarissa Campbell or and it's a biography of an 18th century collage artist told largely through the letters that she wrote”
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Nothing to See Here
Discussed“right now I'm reading the novel nothing to see here by Kevin Wilson which was just reviewed on our cover by Taffy briser anner”
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The Problem with Everything
Discussed“it's Megan D's new essay collection the problem with everything my journey through the new culture wars”
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Beyond the melting pot
Recommended“I urge those of you who have a a who have an actual rather than a purely ideologized interest in the problem to read the book beyond the melting part by Professor Glazer also co-author of the Lonely crowd”
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Black Gold
Discussed“margarito Henry's Black Gold still stands out as the story of a thoroughbred racehorse that broke his leg during the Kentucky Derby but black gold won that race on three legs and a heart”
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White trash
Discussed“so I'm reading the the Nancy Eisenberg book White Trash the 400 year Untold History of white people in America”
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Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Recommended“in the summer of 2005 I had just gotten back home to Sweden after spending a year in Spain and I had brought a book back with me called tomorrow in the battle think of me by the Spanish author Javier maras then unknown to me I started reading it and it made a huge impression on me”
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The skies belong to us
Recommended“and there was this other great book by Brendan Kerner the skies belong to us about can I tell you something I love that book so much that book was so weird and funny and strange and again an example of how insane the 70s were that to me was one of the real revelations in writing this book”
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American heiress
Recommended“the book again is am ays the wild Saga of the kidnapping crimes and trial of Patty Hurst by Jeffrey tubin”
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Look at me
Recommended“the non- self-reflective one is called look at me so I get it in somehow in every book I read um I want to talk about appreciation for knowing people who recommend great books because this week I'm recommending two things very highly and I would not have read them if it weren't for friends of mine who recommended them”
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The debut
Recommended“so I read actually earlier this week her first book which was called published in the US as the debut appropriately enough and she published it when she was in her 50s and that was very good and I would recommend it”
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Should you leave?
Recommended“it's called should you leave it's by the psychologist uh Peter Kramer who everyone knows for listening to Prozac and who has a new book out also about anti-depressants the subtitle of this book is a psychiatrist explores intimacy and autonomy and the nature of advice”
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The Outlaw Ocean
Discussed“and now has a new book out called The Outlaw ocean Journeys across the last Untamed Frontier”
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Blood, bone, and marrow
Recommended“it's called blood bone and Marrow a biography of Harry Cruz by Ted geltner”
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The Porpoise
Recommended“I'm reading a novel called the porpus by Mark Haden”
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The corner that held them
Recommended“this is a book from the 1940s which we reviewed in 1947 in the paper and it's called the corner that held them by Sylvia Townson Warner”
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Faces in the Crowd
Discussed“I think one was called faces in the crowd and and there was another slender book and they were fairly short very beautiful very smart full of great imagery”
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Goodbye, Vitamin
Recommended“at the same time I've also turned to a book that I had started a few years ago and had to put down for other reasons it it's a book called goodbye vitamin by a woman named Rachel Kong”
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The Magic of Handwriting. The Pedro Corrêa do Lago Collection
Recommended“I have the magic of handwriting which is the catalog that accompanied a an exhibit at the Morgan Library”
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Hard news
Recommended“the book is called hard News 21 brutal months at the New York Times and how they changed the American Media by Seth manukan and I read it I guess as a journalist would in you know a few hours it was like a day because it is really juicy and terrible”
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Be With
Discussed“in the Poetry category a poet named Forest Gander won for a collection called be with and it's a sad collection shot through with grief because it concerns among other subjects the death of his wife another acclaimed poet CD Wright who died in 2016 quite suddenly”
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Books for living
Discussed“all right now this book um books for living uh it sounds obviously like a continuation in a way of the last one”
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The end of your life book club
Discussed“before you start talking about this book I actually want you to talk a little bit about your last book um which was a big bestseller the end of your life book club”
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The Girl on the Train
Discussed“the girl on the train also is about trusting which also seems counterintuitive one of the things I love about great suspense and Thriller novels”
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Plutarch's Lives
Discussed“um and I pair that with the discussion of plutarch's lives because that's about adorable infants who need more more more affection”
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SEND
Discussed“that was about email um the book was called send why people email so badly and how to do it better”
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The importance of living
Discussed“one of my favorite authors who I I quote a lot in books for living is linu Tang writer in 1937 writing a book it was published in 38 called the importance of living and about napping and enjoying friends and reading”
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Nasty Women
Discussed“this is another Collective effort but it's a group of essays it's called nasty women a feminist guide to survival in Trump's America”
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Upstream
Recommended“I'm reading Upstream the essays by the poet Mary Oliver oh yeah they're stunning every word perfectly placed um and the discussions of Whitman and Po and Emerson and nature it's just fantastic”
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"More more more" said the baby
Recommended“so very purposefully set out to write about books like cookbooks and children's books and picture books and classic more more said the baby that's a fantastic book by Vera B Williams”
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Everywhere I look
Recommended“I am reading a collection of essays by an Australian writer named Helen Garner who is 70ish and she's a novelist as well James Wood wrote about her recently in the New Yorker on the occasion of this book being released which is called everywhere I look”
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A childhood, the biography of a place
Discussed“yeah one of my favorite books on here which is a childhood by Harry Cruz I think only covers maybe the first five or six years of his life his early childhood at least”
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Dinosaurs
Discussed“millett's 12th novel dinosaurs is out this month and you can find a good long profile of her this weekend in the New York Times magazine”
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So Help Me God
Discussed“and so the memoir that he recently came out with so help me God I mean I think the title is is sort of fascinating for all kinds of reasons”
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Stella Maris
Discussed“the second one St amiris is a sort of Koda and it kind of plays out”
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Sontag
Discussed“I had read her Memoir about Susan Sant a few years ago seme Susan which I really enjoyed and I remember thinking oh I'd like to read more of her work”
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True Compass
Discussed“and the title of Ken's own Memoir was true Compass which I thought was a really interesting book”
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The enemy within
Discussed“or perhaps you know holding in his emotion took him into the library and he took down a volume of the Enemy Within which was Robert Kennedy's description of the racket committee hearings”
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Hello, Molly!
Recommended“one was Molly Shannon's Memoir hello Molly which I thought was charmingly titled”
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Also a Poet
Recommended“and one of the books that I enjoyed most the summer when I picked it up was one that I know you want to talk about Alexandre which was also a poet oh I love also a poet”
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In Love
Recommended“I also found one and this is moving in a completely different way that you were big on Dwight which was Amy Bloom's in love”
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What Are You Going Through
Recommended“I read the friend and what are you going through”
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The Years
Recommended“so I I have one book that I hope to read over the holidays which is the years by any or no”
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Tune In : The Beatles
Recommended“so going to get the unabridged version of it's called TuneIn”
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Hello Beautiful
Discussed“on the cover of the book review is Hello beautiful and napolitano's followup to her best-selling novel dear Edward hello beautiful a book in part about Sisterhood and basketball and marriage has been in the air recently because it was the 100th pick of Oprah's Book Club”
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The expedition of Humphry Clinker
Discussed“and I've Loved pistol novels ever since I was in college when I read the expedition of Humphrey clinker by to buy a smallet although in retrospect it's perhaps not quite as fun as I think it was”
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Animals are Passing from Our Lives
Discussed“class read a poem by Philip LaVine called animals are passing from our lives wellknown poem I I don't know if you're familiar with it it is about a pig going to slaughter”
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The Appeal
Recommended“so I'd like to recommend a book called The Appeal By Janice Hallet which came out last year it's a mystery and it was recommended to me by Sarah Lyle our Thrillers columnist”
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Field guide
Recommended“his first book which won the Yale younger poets prize it's called Field Guide um was on the Shelf there and I plucked it off and started reading it and I was really captivated”
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Lunch poems
Recommended“his book lunch poems is just what it sounds like from the title he worked at MoMA he went out on his lunch breaks eating at kind of Midtown eateries”
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Collected Poems
Recommended“one that's in the more pastoral vein is Ellen Bryant voit's big collected poems Ellen Bryant voy grew up in the South and has lived in Northern New England for for a long time now”
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From From
Recommended“a poet named Monica Yun Yu n has a new book called from from as in well sure but where are you from from and and as you can tell from that title it takes racism very much in its view”
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Be Mine
Discussed“I mean the Richard Ford was the closeout it's the novel was called be mine it's the last novel in his Frank baskam series”
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Onlookers
Discussed“and batty has a new book of stories called onlookers that came out this year and what's interesting about it and it's very good is that it's really a portrait of a town”
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Biography of a Phantom
Discussed“but this book this biography it's called biography of a phantom gives you this thing that he wrote 50 years ago”
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People Collide
Recommended“and the one that sticks out in my memory most recently is isle McElroy who did a sophomore fiction called people Collide and it's about a married couple that switch bodies”
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The Country of the Blind
Recommended“one excellent book that I think was a contender for top whatever was the country of the Blind by and Leland”
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Run Towards the Danger
Discussed“and so another one I listened to which was which which was interesting I mean I enjoyed listening to it was Sarah Po's Memoir run towards the danger”
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The last flight of Poxl West
Discussed“Jewish World War II fighter pilot novelist Daniel Tor will be here to talk about the titular hero of his new book The Last Flight of poxel West”
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On the Natural History of Destruction
Discussed“WJ zald had had written this um book that was based on a lecture called on the natural history of Destruction and it was really the first time to my understanding of it”
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The Fifth Gospel
Discussed“so now Caldwell joins him as a standalone author with another Da Vinci Code type book um called The Fifth Gospel which centers on the Vatican and the Shroud of Turin and is new at number 14”
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Dead heat
Discussed“Patricia Briggs who's best known for her mercy Thompson Series of urban fantasy novels has the fourth book in her Alpha and Omega series not a Mercy Thompson book um they're said a little bit earlier in that same fictional Universe um this book is called Dead Heat and it's new at number8”
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Live right and find happiness (although beer is much faster)
Discussed“another familiar Nam Dave Barry has a book called live right and find happiness although beer is much faster”
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Data and Goliath
Discussed“at number six uh we have a cyber security expert uh named Bruce schne and his book is called data and Goliath it's kind of the same thing it's looking at the surveillance State uh and corporate surveillance and offering consumers tips on protecting their privacy”
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War of the Encyclopaedists
Discussed“one is the war of the encycloped it's coming out in May from scrier and what's stricking about that is it's co-authored by a veteran and a poet”
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Bad Mother
Discussed“I mean iell wman had a book called bad mother right”
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The Rosie effect
Discussed“that book is the rosie effect by Graham ssian which is a follow-up a sequel uh to his debut novel The Rosie Project about a genetics Professor who has asp Burgers syndrome”
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The Rosie Project
Discussed“that book is the rosie effect by Graham ssian which is a follow-up a sequel uh to his debut novel The Rosie Project about a genetics Professor who has asp Burgers syndrome”
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No Fortunate Son
Discussed“at number 11 Brad Taylor continues his Pike Logan series with a book called No Fortunate Son about a um shadowy and far-reaching terrorist organization”
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Rain on the Dead
Discussed“then at number nine Jack Higgins continues his Shawn Dylan series with a book called rain on the dead”
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The Assassination Option
Discussed“then at number seven um web Griffin and his son William E Butterworth IV have a book called the assassination option”
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Die again
Discussed“and finally Tess garritson who writes the risoli and Isles series which has been now turned into a TV series as well um has the latest book in that series called die again”
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Don't give up, don't give in
Discussed“over on the non-fiction list there's just one new title uh at number nine it's called don't give up don't give in the author is uh Louie Zamperini written with David renson”
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The Man Who Couldn't Stop
Discussed“our guest David Adam knows something about this personally and will join us to talk about his new book the man who couldn't stop hours and hours and hours of somebody's day just constantly whirling around in this this cycle of intrusive thought”
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The Weaker Vessel (Women in History)
Discussed“the missing women at number 13 on the January 13th 1985 hard cover non-fiction list was the historian Antonia Fraser with a book called The weaker vessel about women”
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One writer's beginnings
Discussed“and at number 15 um one of the great writers of the 20th century yodora Welty had her Memoir one writers Beginnings which at that time had been on the list for 42 weeks”
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Burned
Discussed“at number five Karen Marie moaning continues her paranormal romance um fever World Series with a book called burned”
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First Frost
Discussed“and then at number four Sarah Addison Allen I say it continues the series it's she has a novel called first fraud new at number four that's kind of a followup to her 2007 novel Garden Spells about the Waverly sisters”
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Gateway to Freedom
Discussed“then at number 11 Eric foner the historian has a new book called gateway to Freedom which looks at New York City's role in abolitionism”
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Leaving before the rains come
Discussed“then at number 10 Alexander Fuller the woman I talked about um has a memoir of her divorce it's called leaving before the rains come”
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God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy
Discussed“it's by the former Arkansas governor and Republican Presidential hopeful Mike hucke called God Guns grits and gravy which is basically a salvo in the culture wars”
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Funny Girl
Discussed“John Williams will be here to discuss his review of funny girl and this is a book I think where he's looking back at a time where he either remembers or was living right around when these sort of purely comic and slightly more traditional writers were doing these shows and it's a bit of a valentine to them”
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What Pet Should I Get?
Discussed“because there's another long lost manuscript on the scene and that's what pet should I get by who else Dr Seuss”
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Holy Cow
Discussed“well a whole lot of fiction and not a whole lot of non-fiction this week um we have six new titles on the hard cover fiction side of things um starting down at number 16 a book a debut novel called holy cow by David dukov of fox Moulder Fame”
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Ben-Gurion
Discussed“Anita shapira joins us from Malta to talk about her new biography Ben Gan father of modern Israel”
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Digital destiny
Discussed“It is by a guy named sha dubravac he is an economist for the consumer Electronics trade group um and his book digital Destiny new at number 10 considers what the future of our culture the future of the world might look like as uh everything gets more and more connected to the internet”
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The Whites
Discussed“or really named Richard Price and kind of named Harry Brandt um Price's new novel The Whites is on our cover this week it's reviewed by the mega bestselling crime novelist Michael Connelly”
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Crash and burn
Discussed“then at number seven Lisa Gardner uh the Thriller writer has a new book called Crash and Burn that's a standalone Thriller but it does have a cameo from her popular uh recurring character the the Boston detective DD Warren”
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Trigger Warning
Discussed“then at number four Neil Gaiman back on the list with uh not a novel But A Story collection called trigger warning”
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The Nightingale
Discussed“and finally the last new title on the um fiction side of things this week is by Kristen Hannah a book called The Night Andale new at number three about French sisters during World World War II”
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Gods banker
Discussed“he's got a new book out called God's Bankers that looks at the Catholic Church um and especially its relationship to money going back to the bouras and before you know the sale of indulgences”
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Shame
Discussed“Orlando Patterson will talk about two new books Shame by Shelby steel and please stop helping us by Jason Riley which reviews this week”
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The haunting of Sunshine girl
Discussed“this novel by Paige McKenzie um is called The Haunting of Sunshine girl and she actually co-wrote it with a young adult writer”
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The cultural matrix
Discussed“he is a professor of Sociology at Harvard and the editor with Evan FY of the cultural Matrix understanding black youth”
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Reflections of an affirmative action baby
Discussed“does there argument their view of affirmative action differ from say you know what Stephen Carter wrote 20 years ago or 25 years ago in reflections of an affirmative action baby has the black conservative perspective on affirmative action evolved since then”
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Hush, hush
Discussed“well uh there are four titles on the hard cover fiction list and interestingly uh new at number 15 is a book's called Hush Hush by Laura Litman”
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A Spool of Blue Thread
Discussed“and we have another Baltimore writer a famous Baltimore writer an Tyler still on the list with a school of blue thread uh which is at number five in its third week”
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Double fudge brownie murder
Discussed“in this uh case the new book is called double fudge brownie murder”
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Prodigal Son
Discussed“number four Danielle steel has a new novel out called prodigal son”
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Mightier than the Sword
Discussed“and finally Jeffrey Archer continues his Clifton Chronicles with Harry Clifton That book is called mightier than the sword”
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Spring chicken
Discussed“at number nine bill gford has a kind of Popular Science book called Spring Chicken which is looking at the process of aging”
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Future crimes
Discussed“at number three Mark Goodman a cyber security consultant who's worked for interpole and the FBI uh various other law enforcement organizations has a terrifying new book called future crimes”
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Girl in a band
Discussed“finally new at number two Kim Gordon who played Bas in the seminal Post Punk group uh Sonic Youth and was married to the the other member of that band thir and Moore has a memoir called girl in a band”
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The First Bad Man
Discussed“like Lauren GR will join us to talk about her review of the first bad man”
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Discussed“the first of course uh such a brilliant and evocative title don't let's go to the dogs tonight and African childhood”
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Scribbling the Cat
Discussed“but I think there was another book um scribbling the cat which was sort of a memoir but really a reflection of a soul that had that had fought during the war that I grew up in”
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No One Belongs Here More Than You
Discussed“uh she's written um a couple of books one of which her previous fiction book is a short story collection called No One belongs here more than you which won a number of prizes”
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The third target
Discussed“starting down at number 14 um a thriller by Joel C Rosenberg um called the third target about Isis and you know one of these very of the moment Thrillers that he writes”
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Golden Son
Discussed“um then jumping all the way up to number six uh a Young author he's 26 named Pierce Brown has the second book in his Red Rising fantasy Trilogy that book is called Golden Sun”
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The empty throne
Discussed“then at number five Bernard Cornwell returns with another uh historical novel about ancient England England in uh or Britain rather in in the 10th Century called The Empty Throne”
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As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust
Discussed“and finally Alan Bradley the sepag genarian Canadian author mystery writer has a new novel out in his Flavia Deo series about a tween girl who's fascinated by chemistry and talented at solving Mysteries that novel is called as chimney sweepers come to dust”
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Silver screen fiend
Discussed“at number 11 the actor and comedian Patton Oswalt has a memoir called Silver Screen fiend”
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It Was Me All Along
Discussed“um the food blogger Andy Mitchell a 29-year-old food blogger has a memoir out called it was me all along”
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Green on Blue
Discussed“Tom Bissell will tell us about green on Blue a novel by Elliot arriman which he reviews this week”
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The Italians
Discussed“we'll find out from John Hooper here to talk about his new book the Italians”
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Matterhorn
Discussed“even something like matter horn which came out a few years ago and which is a book that I absolutely love had that kind of Baseline catch22 absurdity”
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American sniper
Discussed“if you look at something like Chris Kyle's book uh the American Sniper book which you just read in an increasing State of Shock”
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Suspended sentences
Discussed“Alan ring will join us to talk about modiano and his new collection of Nolla suspended sentences”
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How To Be A Victorian
Discussed“Judith Newman will be here to talk about her review of Ruth Goodman's how to be Victorian a dawn to dusk guide to Victorian life”
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And the Show Went On
Discussed“also the author of the book and the show went on cultural life in Nazi occupied Paris”
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Loitering
Discussed“in this week's issue he reviews Charles damb roio's new essay collection the wonderfully titled loitering”
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Modern Romance
Discussed“aiz andari has his first book coming out about dating in the modern era it's called modern romance”
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America's bitter pill
Discussed“so i looked at step Brill whose new book is going to be on the cover of our January 11th issue his new book America's bitter pill does not come out in time to make this list”
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Love and Lies
Discussed“this is the question Clancy Martin poses in his new book and Adele Waldman joins us to talk about her review of love and lies”
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The test
Discussed“and this week reviews a book called The Test why our schools are obsessed with standardized testing but you don't have to be by Ana kenet”
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Alan Turing: The Enigma
Discussed“her name is Vicky Kar and the book is Allan Turing the Enigma”
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Pioneer girl
Discussed“it's a book called Pioneer Girl by Laura Engles Wilder who of course wrote The Little House on the Prairie books”
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Habits of the heart
Discussed“or um they don't identify with a specific religion but they have a personal religion what used to be called shiism by Robert Bella and habits of the heart”
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The Boston girl
Discussed“Anita diamant famous for The Red Tent has a new novel out called the Boston girl that's new at number 12”
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The Keeper
Discussed“at number 16 the soccer goalie Tim Howard uh who became very famous over the summer um making save after save for the United States team in the world cup has a memoir written with Ali Benjamin called The Keeper that's new at number 16”
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Deep down dark
Discussed“and at number 15 um the longtime Los Angeles Times journalist Hector Tobar uh has his um fourth book it's his second non-fiction book it's called deep down dark and that tells the story of the Chilean miners”
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Heaven's Bankers
Discussed“by Islamic Finance author Harris iron will be here to talk about Heaven's Bankers”
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The sick bag song
Discussed“first of all it's only going to be available on a website that he's created called the sick bags song.com that's the title of the of the book and the poem”
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All the Old Knives
Discussed“starting down at number 15 Olen steinhauer has a new spy novel this one's kind of a Cold Case spy novel called all the old knives new at number 15”
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Cold betrayal
Discussed“at number 13 ja a Jance continues her Aly Reynolds series that's about an ex broadcast journalist who was cut loose for aging and now gets involved in various Thriller mystery plots the 10th book of that series is called cold betrayal and it's new at number 13”
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World gone by
Discussed“he's got a new novel called World Gone By also not set in Boston u this I believe concludes a Trilogy it certainly continues a series of historical Thrillers featuring The Gangster and former police officer Joe Coughlin”
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Last one home
Discussed“then at number six um Debbie momer has a standalone novel called last one home it's a standalone but it's still as comforting and cozy as you'd expect”
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Endangered
Discussed“and finally um at number three CJ box continues his Joe picket um series set in Montana with a thriller called endangered”
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17 Carnations
Discussed“um he's got a book called 17 carnations which is a look back at the Duke of Windsor and Wallace Simpson and their relations with the Nazis”
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Bettyville
Discussed“then at number nine um George Hodgman who used to be an editor a book editor at Simon and Schuster also a magazine editor at Vanity Fair um and various other places has a book called bettyville Betty is his mother in Paris Missouri”
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Every day I fight
Discussed“then at number three a memoir by Stuart Scott who you may remember was an ESPN anchor he died in January of cancer just before he died he had finished this Memoir about his battle against cancer it's called everyday I fight and it's written with Larry Platt”
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Without You, There Is No Us
Discussed“Suki Kim will be here to talk about her Memoir without you there is no us my time with the sons of North Korea's Elite”
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Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Discussed“this year of course there was Ros chast's book cant we talk about something more pleasant this whole theme of dying parents”
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My misspent youth
Discussed“your first book was also an essay collection my misspent youth”
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Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect
Discussed“uh and so new on the hard cover fiction list this week at number five we have Tom Clancy colon full force and effect by Mark greeny”
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The Beatles Lyrics
Discussed“um and who has made a real career out of following the Beatles has a new book called The Beatles lyrics”
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The unspeakable
Recommended“we've had a lot of collections just in the last year a year and a half that have been very striking like Megan D's book the Unspeakable U lesie Jameson's the empathy exams”
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Book of days
Recommended“um Emily Fox Gordon had a wonderful book book of days”
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
Recommended“Gerard Russell joins us to talk about these religions and others which he writes about in his new book heirs to forgotten kingdoms Journeys into the disappearing religions of the Middle East”
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Living the Secular Life
Recommended“Phil Zuckerman will be here to talk about his book living the secular life new answers to Old questions”
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Prep
Discussed“what were you surprised at Tina that was not on this list since you brought it up what cultural moments no Gone Girl no prep by Curtis sittenfeld”
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Pastoralia
Recommended“who wants to pick a fun book on this list pastoralia by George Saunders”
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Recommended“all right I would say going to the list number 16 The Amazing Adventures of cavalier and Clay Michael Shan's book about the history of the comic book industry is a complete Delight”
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Look, I made a hat
Recommended“and the best theater books that have come out during this period are these two books of Steven stimes lyrics called finishing the hat and look I made a hat”
Stuff You Should Know
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Killdozer!
Discussed“there's a movie called kildo from 1974 it was a ABC spense Saturday suspense TV movie that was based on a 1944 short story by um fantasy writer Theodore sturgeon”
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The Red Badge of Courage
Discussed“Um, the Red Book, aka the order of battle of the German Army, was a very big deal, and it was basically just an ongoing, um, list of like everything they could learn about the German Army. Um, anytime they would get documents or any kind of plans, that would go into the Red Book or they would, you know,”
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Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
Discussed“The problem was at the time, Ronald Reagan was the President of the United States, and there's a guy named Fred Kaplan who wrote a book about, um, the history of cyber war called Dark Territory, and apparently, Reagan saw this film, was so freaked out by it that he got the Joint Chiefs together and was like, 'Can this”
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Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
Discussed“so much so that even in her um her autobiography which was published in 1895 when she was in her 70s I think um she called it pioneering work”
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In the shadow of man
Discussed“Yeah, so, um, prior to that, we kind of jumped ahead a little bit, but prior to that, um, she—in addition to that National Geographic cover story—um, less than 10 years later, um, she released her first book, 'In the Shadow of Man.'”
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Awakenings
Discussed“That definitely aligns with research, particularly something reported by Oliver Sacks in the book and then later in the movie Awakenings.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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A Statin-Free Life
Discussed“One study found that marathon runners experience a frequency of heart attacks and strokes similar to people who already have heart disease suggesting too much exercise is harmful which is in your book statinfree.”
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The 21-Day Immunity Plan
Discussed“Last thing that from looking at your 21-day immunity plan is socializing.”
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The Pioppi Diet
Recommended“I will link your books below in the description for anybody that wants to read them. I've these two books in particular, the one that I can't pronounce, the Pop Pop diet, a 21-day lifestyle plan. Lose weight, feel great, and drastically reduce your risk of type two diabetes and heart disease, and a statin-free life, a revolutionary life plan”
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The First 20 Hours
Discussed“first 20 hours yeah the first 20 hours how to learn anything and you have a TED Talk don't you which was crazy I don't know if it's hit 40 million views yet but PR pretty close if not 40 million views on a TED talk about the first 20 hours how to learn anything”
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The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
Discussed“I've read your book, um all of your books, and I I think they're great. But, Dad, I would love to be a professional actor.”
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The Four
Discussed“I've read your book, um all of your books, and I I think they're great. But, Dad, I would love to be a professional actor.”
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The Man Who Tasted Words
Discussed“but I also have this other book in front of me called The Man Who tasted words yeah and at the bottom of this book it says it's a fascinating important and disturbing book”
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Seven Deadly Sins
Recommended“I'm going to link all of them Below in the description um seven deadly sins the biology of Being Human I've got the man who tasted words inside the strange and startling world of our senses and The Secret World of sleep”
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The Secret World of Sleep
Recommended“I'm going to link all of them Below in the description um seven deadly sins the biology of Being Human I've got the man who tasted words inside the strange and startling world of our senses and The Secret World of sleep”
The Mel Robbins Podcast
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Power Moves
Discussed“so the book is called power moves and many times people hear first of all it's power moves ignite your confidence and become a Force”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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The Naked Communist
Discussed“Uh, it was derived from a book called The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen, who was a CIA agent and had done a lot of study on communism and its effect.”
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Hippie
Recommended“but he's written a bunch of other little side quest books I read hippie recently and I thought I don't know what this guy looks like”
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The Classic King James Study Bible
Critiqued“few decades after that a guy named CI scoffield have you ever heard of a scoffield Bible yes I have so CI scoffield was a basically a student of John Derby”
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2 Thessalonians
Discussed“it also ties in Matthew 24 and 2 Thessalonians 2 and 1 Corinthians and a lot of other places”
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1 Corinthians
Discussed“it also ties in Matthew 24 and 2 Thessalonians 2 and 1 Corinthians and a lot of other places”
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Goodbye, Columbus and five short stories
Discussed“There's a Philip Roth book, Conversion to the Jews, it's a short story!”
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Conversion of Jews
Discussed“There's a Philip Roth book conversion to the Jews uh it's a short story yeah I never read it it's about uh it's pretty good and uh and uh yeah Philip Roth”
Dwarkesh Podcast
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Making Common Sense of Japan
Recommended“There's a great book, Making Common Sense of Japan. The author makes this persuasive argument at length.”
Conversations with Tyler
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The Jacksonian persuasion
Discussed“thinking about American history so that's not an important dimension of his one great book Jacksonian persuasion and so the role of American expansion into the West at the expense of native peoples is just what was not on his agenda”
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American Civil Wars
Recommended“let me stress the new book publication date May 21st is American Civil Wars a continental history 1850 to 1873 I enjoyed reading this very much learned a great deal from it”
The Daily Stoic
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Van Gogh
Discussed“Yes, in that 'Mind on Fire' book about... I think it's one of the best books I've read about Emerson too. Yes.”
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Leaves of Grass
Discussed“so Emerson reads Leaves of Grass right he gets a self-published copy of Leaves of Grass and he just sends Whitman a letter and he says I greet you at the beginning of a grand career”
Pod Save America
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Scrum - A Pocket Guide
Recommended“First, I would encourage everyone to tune in to your excellent show, Veli, which airs 10:00 a.m. Eastern on Saturdays and Sundays on MSNBC. Also, you have a great memoir out, 'Small Acts of Courage.' It's fantastic.”
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Small Acts of Courage
Recommended“also you have a great Memoir out small acts of courage it's fantastic uh you and Ben talked about in more detail on pod safe the world”
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AmGov
Discussed“Well, he... he met with them at... do... during the transfer of their remains back home, but I think, you know, this was that really tough scene that Jen Psaki actually writes about in her book where I... he tried to talk to them about his loss and losing his son, and I think that helped them connect with some”
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Project 2025:
Discussed“Well, I do think like I think the reason Project 2025 took off is that it plays into something we don’t often get to play into.”
My First Million
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Hellbound
Recommended“The second one is Hellbound and it's about the assassination of MLK. A lot of people don't know this, but James Earl Ray, the guy who shot MLK”
EconTalk
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The Mitten
Recommended“some of my favorites are these more ornate um sort of filled with detail so so Jan Brett who did like the Mitten the Hat trouble with trolls she these sort of classic takes on these folktales”
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The Hat
Recommended“some of my favorites are these more ornate um sort of filled with detail so so Jan Brett who did like the Mitten the Hat trouble with trolls she these sort of classic takes on these folktales”
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Trouble with Trolls
Recommended“some of my favorites are these more ornate um sort of filled with detail so so Jan Brett who did like the Mitten the Hat trouble with trolls she these sort of classic takes on these folktales”
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The Gardener
Recommended“I'm just going to put in a vote for um slightly older age than the than say um good night moon but a slightly older age would would be the Seven Silly Eaters um and uh the gardener those are two books I love we'll put up links to it”
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His Greatest Speeches
Recommended“and again I recommend along with Diana's book Gary Will's book on Gettysburg is is really a wonderful book”
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The Great War and Modern Memory
Critiqued“Paul fael and you you may know him wrote a book called The Great War in modern memory and I don't know whether this was because of his particular situation or not”
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The Oceans and the Stars
Discussed“our topic for today among other things is his latest book the oceans and the Stars a sea story a war story a love story”
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Refiner's Fire
Discussed“uh you started off the if I'm correct your um your first your first published novel was refiner fire which was published in 1977”
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A Dove of the East
Discussed“um you wrote uh Dove of the East the collection and Ellis Island”
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Ellis Island
Discussed“um you wrote uh Dove of the East the collection and Ellis Island”
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The Pacific and Other Stories
Discussed“no uh my my favorite is a collection of short stories called the Pacific”
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Freddy and Fredericka
Discussed“and then there was um the soldier of the Great War which was a very realistic sort of tlan type of Novel Freddy and Frederica which is a comic novel in the present they're all different”
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Swan Lake
Discussed“but it's the the the first volume of Swan Lake um probably remember the names”
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A City in Winter
Discussed“yeah this there were three books Swan Lake a city in Winter and the veil of Snows and they were published one volume”
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The Veil of Snows
Discussed“yeah this there were three books Swan Lake a city in Winter and the veil of Snows and they were published one volume”
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A Kingdom Far and Clear
Discussed“as um City far and clear far no a u a kingdom far and clear”
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A Kingdom Far and Clear Limited Edition Calla Editions
Discussed“as um City far and clear far no a u a kingdom far and clear”
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The Ulysses Theme
Discussed“one of the great books of British scholarship WB St the ulyses theme Oxford reissued 1968”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Seeing Through Statistics
Discussed“she published a book called seeing through statistics and there's not one equation in the book she wanted to have a a book that people who read newspaper articles who mention statistics can get some idea what the hell they're talking about”
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Lessons Out of the Body
Recommended“and he wrote a book called Journeys out of the body which I'd recommend I have it on my shelf at home readit read it in two two sittings”
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In the Name of My Father
Discussed“in the name of your father the title in the title of your new book in the name of my father”
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You2
Recommended“one of the books I love is called you squared by price pritchet”
Acquired
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The Road Ahead
Discussed“but in this book called The Road head I have two copies of it here on my desk the hard cover copy and the soft cover copy which was revised and came out in 1996”
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World War 3.0
Discussed“and one of the things that I read to prepare for this episode is a book called World War 3.0 which is exclusively about this trial”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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Radical Remission
Recommended“one of my favorite books radical remission radical hope um by Kelly Turner”
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This Is Why You Dream
Discussed“I mean, the book is called This Is Why You Dream. Why do we dream, and why is it important for us to understand why we dream?”
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
Discussed“You just soaked it in, and they gave us a whole bunch of books to read. I remember reading Dale Carnegie's book on influencing people.”
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Coragem de Ser Imperfeito - Daring Greatly
Recommended“I listened to a lot and read a lot of Brené Brown's work; 'Daring Greatly' was hugely helpful to me because I literally felt like I was going to step off a precipice and talk about this issue.”
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The Gifts of Imperfection
Recommended“I think the first Brené Brown book I picked up was 'The Gifts of Imperfection,' and I learned to embrace all these places in me that I do see as imperfect.”
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Awakening joy
Recommended“Many years ago, I read a book called 'Awakening Joy' by James Baraz and Shoshana Alexander. One thing I learned from that book—I carried it in my bag for years—is that you can hold joy and sadness side by side.”
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The Moment of Lift
Recommended“Melinda is also the author of the best-selling book, The Moment of Lift. Go and grab it if you haven't already.”
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A Man on the Moon
Discussed“Like I love the story and I put in the book of Jim Carrey when he decided to be uh in Man on the Moon.”
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Willpower Works
Recommended“Everyone, the book is called 'Level Up: How to Get Focused, Stop Procrastinating, and Upgrade Your Life.'”
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Level Up
Recommended“The book is called Level Up. How to get focused, stop procrastinating, and upgrade your life. If you don't have a copy, go and grab it.”
No Stupid Questions
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This Tender Land
Recommended“Absolutely, and I think that it’s interesting — I was just reading a book called This Tender Land about Native American schools, and there's one child in it who is constantly sent to solitary confinement.”
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The Nature of Love
Discussed“now I have to say that in present day Harry harlo might have been cancelled because he was really interested in the nature of love and actually his most famous article is called the nature of love”
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Mrs. Miracle
Discussed“in fact the version of the aphorism the grass is always greener on the other side seems to have originated in a line from Mrs Miracle a 1996 book by bestselling romance novelist Debbie momer”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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Performance All the Way Down
Discussed“so your latest book which is entitled performance all the way down is an attempt to incorporate queer feminist Theory into biology”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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Operating instructions
Discussed“first up an Lamont New York Times bestselling author of 20 books including operating instructions an account of her son's first year”
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Somehow
Discussed“and her latest somehow an exploration of the transformative power of love”
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Dreaming Yourself Awake
Recommended“which is dreaming yourself awake”
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The Art of Loving
Discussed“I recently reread the Art of Loving by Eric from”
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Here is New York
Recommended“one is eie wh's here is New York and the other one is David Foster Wallace's speech”
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What School Could Be
Recommended“so my mentor Ted Dent Smith just wrote a book called what school could be and this goes back to sort of Education as a critical societal question how do we fix education”
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Recommended“it is by khed husi who also wrote kitr Runner he wrote this book called A Thousand Splendid Sons”
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The Adventures of Johnny Bunko
Recommended“there is a short graphic novel by Daniel pink called junco uhhuh and it's career counsel advice it's aimed at young people it's graphic novel it's a cartoon basically and it's aim at young people is trying to teach them how to become indispensable”
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The Mind and Society: Theory of derivations
Discussed“and one day I decided that I wanted to read a book which had read about called the course of economic theory but it was in French written by our old friend vredo pero and it was published in lern in I think 1896 and 97”
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The Star Principle
Discussed“so you wrote an entire book on this the star principle 2008 it that was published in 2008 work and investing in Star businesses”
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Managing Without Management
Discussed“and I'd written a book for him called managing without management which was a title which he suggested was very clever because it basically said managing in particular middle managing was a complete waste of time and so you could manage without it managing without management”
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Perspectives on Strategy
Recommended“and then you say at the end of the answer that many of your book books and much of your investing are related to ideas on strategy Consulting and you learn those firsthand not from books but that you can recommend a book called perspectives on strategy edited by Carl Stern and George stock”
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The Book of Joy
Discussed“there's a wonderful book that came out last year the year before called The Book Of Joy which was a conversation between the Dal Lama and Archbishop tutu”
The Ramsey Show
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Stop Acting Rich
Discussed“Tom Stanley who wrote the book Millionaire Next Door before he passed away he wrote another book called stop acting Rich broke people act rich and aren't”
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Why I Believe
Recommended“The book is why I Believe by Dr Henry gloud New York Times bestselling author of boundaries and many others”
The Rubin Report
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Seeing Like a State
Discussed“One of the main aims of the state, and this is from the book, seeing like a state, he said that the state tries to make taxpayers legible.”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Alone on the Wall
Recommended“if you read this book by alex onal alone on the wall it feels so lonely although you're surrounded by your friends and family and your team members”
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For the Culture
Discussed“and I'm reading this amazing book from this guy Marcus Collins right now called for the culture and he's so good it it pertains a little bit more to the business that I'm in now because it's a little bit more of a marketing book”
The Jordan Harbinger Show
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Mémoires
Discussed“As I describe in the memoir, one of the best things I ever did in my half-century career was to set aside the theatrics of the demonstrations and listen to what the activists had to say; they were making perfect sense.”
