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Books podcasts were talking about in February 2025
February 2025 conversations on podcasts heavily emphasized historical analysis, political power structures, and human behavior. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Peter Berg recommended Tom Wicker's "A Time to Die" while examining the Attica prison riot. Similar historical parallels regarding the judiciary emerged on Breaking Points, where Emily Jashinsky recommended Jeff Shesol's "Supreme Power" in discussions about Supreme Court tensions. Historical frameworks also shaped discussions on EconTalk, where Russ Roberts brought up James Barr's "A Line in the Sand" to explore the background of the Middle East. Political and economic systems drew focus on The Ezra Klein Show, where the host recommended Paul Ormerod's "Why Most Fail" based on long-term economic data, and Martin Gurri recommended Andrey Mir's "Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers" to detail the evolution of media. On The Rubin Report, Carl Benjamin cited Alan Macfarlane's "The Origins of English Individualism" to trace the historical roots of property markets. In psychology and personal conduct, Robert Greene joined The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett to highly recommend Elliot Aronson's "Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)" regarding accountability, while Dr. John Delony recommended Jon Tyson's faith-based parenting book "The Intentional Father" to a caller on his own show.
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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The Ainu of Japan, the Religion, Superstitions, and General History of the Hairy Aborigines of Japan, by the Rev. John Batchelor,...
Discussed“He was working in the area in the early 1900s and he wrote down a sighting in a book he had called the IU and their folklore and he said that a great sea monster with large staring eyes had attacked three local fishermen and their boats”
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The Ainu and Their Folk-lore
Discussed“He was working in the area in the early 1900s and he wrote down a sighting in a book he had called the IU and their folklore and he said that a great sea monster with large staring eyes had attacked three local fishermen and their boats”
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Bad clowns
Discussed“there's a guy named Benjamin Radford goens who is the author of a book called bad clowns and in his work Radford busts some myths that we have about clowning in the modern day”
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Social Physics
Discussed“and let's also consider Alex pentant he's author of a book called social physics how good ideas spread”
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The Magician
Discussed“if you look at the this is a spoiler but uh the primary biography written about this guy is the magician with uh CIA a magician capitalized the magician”
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Lord of Illusions
Discussed“and there's a a Clive Barker movie from the 90s called lord of illusions that you guys may have seen it's not great doesn't super hold up you you read the book it's got some I have yeah it's it's it's I think part of one of his collections it's like a short story within cabal if I'm not mistaken”
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The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception
Discussed“he is the perfect guy to write the forward for the official CIA Manual of trickery and deception by Melton and Wallace and here he says he kind of sums up you know what you referring to there”
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The Satanic Mill
Recommended“just like in that wonderful uh fairy tale the satanic Mill check it out it's also about magic uh and it's appropriate for all audiences I would say it's a great young adult book”
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Killing Hope
Recommended“and if you are a fan of Deep dive books on these sorts of subjects please also peruse killing hope US military and CIA intervention since World War II by William Blum and Legacy of Ashes by Tim weer anyway”
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The CIA
Recommended“and if you are a fan of Deep dive books on these sorts of subjects please also peruse killing hope US military and CIA intervention since World War II by William Blum and Legacy of Ashes by Tim weer anyway”
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We3
Discussed“Ben we3 is that the one that's amazing”
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The American Boys' Book of Bugs, Butterflies and Beetles
Recommended“I highly recommend the book The Fire Cracker Boys by Dan O'Neal which tells their story”
The Joe Rogan Experience
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Terminator 2
Discussed“I just as a reminder I actually with my with little ex my kid everything's called X um we watch Terminator 2 uh which holds off actually”
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Massacre at Mountain Meadows
Discussed“and at the end of the tour there a bookstore um in the in the in the museum the Mormon Museum in Salt Lake and the book Mountain Meadows Massacre by this guy Turley was there and I'm like I want to buy this book I read the book and I'm like oh for sure we're putting this this story”
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A Time to Die
Recommended“if you followed that there's a Incredible Book by Tom wicker who was a journalist called A Time To Die that dissects that event”
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The Behavior Operations Manual
Discussed“I mean your your space is like you wrote this book Behavior Ops manual and you're you've got a lot of stuff online like how to motivate yourself and discipline yourself”
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Crystallizing public opinion
Discussed“and the book's called crystallizing public opinion”
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Ask the Dust
Discussed“he wrote a he wrote a book called ask the dust and um The Adventures of vuro Bandini”
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Brotherhood Of The Grape
Discussed“he wrote a he wrote a book called ask the dust and um The Adventures of vuro Bandini”
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Arturo Bandini
Discussed“he wrote a book called ask the dust and um The Adventures of vuro Bandini”
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How to Write Funny
Recommended“another book called um how to write funny be funny and make money being funny and that was a real great book bro”
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Fun
Recommended“another book called um how to write funny be funny and make money being funny and that was a real great book bro”
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Legacy of Ashes
Discussed“in 2000 and there was a book that came out called Legacy of Ashes was written by a go a guy called Tim Wier it used to be New York Times and it was all about the CIA”
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The Big Guy
Discussed“all this stuff is is uh you know well documented in Miranda divine's book the big guy”
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Visas for Al Qaeda
Discussed“he wrote a book called visas for terrorists um uh where he goes over how the whole the whole thing was done”
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Black Gold Stranglehold
Discussed“there is a book that I read a book that I read I think in the 90s called Black Gold strangle hold maybe early 2000s and I never found out if it was real or not I I never looked into it any further”
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Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey
Discussed“and I was like Baron Trump's marvelous underground Journey What is this it's like an old it's a book from wrote it it is from 1893 nearly forgotten Baron Trump's marvelous underground Journey blends of Science Fiction and Fantasy in a story told by little Baron Trump an aristocrat boy”
Freakonomics Radio
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Pests
Discussed“that is Bethany Brookshire we heard from her in part one of the series she's the author of a book called pests how humans create animal villains”
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Data for Science and Technology; Proceedings of the Seventh International CODATA Conference; Kyoto, Japan, 8-11 October 1980
Discussed“Glaeser is the author of a book called Triumph of the city, how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter, greener, healthier, and happier.”
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The Licensing Racket
Discussed“Rebecca allensworth is a law professor at Vanderbilt University and she's written a book about Professional Licensing. We Americans like to think of our economy as open and dynamic. allensworth shows that in many ways it's not and that these licensing boards help too many bad actors stay in their professions and keep too many good ones out. and that's”
Stuff You Should Know
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The Doomsday Book
Discussed“uh one of his books is called the Doomsday Book colon uh the science behind Humanity's greatest threats something that Josh has particular interest in”
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For God, country and Coca-Cola
Discussed“uh there's a guy named Mark Pendergrast who wrote a book called for God country and cocacola no colon way to go Mark”
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Murder by witchcraft
Discussed“uh there's a writer named Donald McCormick uh who picked up the case for a book he was writing called Murder By Witchcraft”
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The Souls of Black Folk
Discussed“they turned him on books like the soul of Black Folk The Souls of black folks by WB duboyce and like that combined with his early upbringing where he was able to ju supposed Society in Jamaica and Society in America like this really kind of got things started”
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The Gilded Age
Discussed“I mentioned Mark Twain and the only reason we're going to talk about Mark Twain for a moment is because in 1873 he co-wrote a novel a satire called the Gilded Age colon a tale of today where it followed a poor country farmer who uh is sort of I mean does he move to the city trying to get”
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Lifeboat Ethics
Discussed“I read another paper of his too um called Lifeboat ethics MH the argument against helping the poor”
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Governing the Commons
Discussed“uh this is a woman who wrote a book in 1990 called governing the commons colon the evolution of Institutions for Collective action and she's probably like at the top of the list for um really bringing this to the the upper echelons of the political world”
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Gong This Book! The Uncensored History of Television's Wildest Talent Show
Recommended“I had hoped you use gong this book uh as one of your sources as it was written by a real life uh TV historian named Adam uh nedf”
Behind the Bastards
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The CREATION OF DR B
Discussed“and this brings me to the book the creation of Dr B by Richard poock”
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The Survivor
Discussed“his book The Survivor was partly a broadside against the misinformation bleheim had contributed to the discussion”
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Individual and Mass Behavior in Extreme Situations
Discussed“it is titled individual and mass behavior in extreme situations and it is a work of Titanic influence”
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Anarchism in Latin America
Discussed“I actually think I read Capetti's anarchism in Latin America around that time too. It's a very good resource.”
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Words of a Rebel
Discussed“But if we're going by cropotkins description in words of a rebel chapters 10 to 11, he makes it clear that commune describes any group formed on the basis of free association. In fact, he juxtaposes the free commune with traditional conceptions of the commune.”
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Border Economies
Discussed“Now there's a pretty interesting book that I read recently called Border Economies Cities Bridging the US Mexico Divide by James Gber Gerber. James Gerber. Okay.”
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Direct Action
Recommended“I would also recommend uh David Greyber's uh direct action in ethnography which is him writing about the original like anti like alter globalization protests and his like time in them. Yeah. So, you know, if you need direct action ideas, they they did some fun stuff with dressing guys up like marshmallows so police batons would bounce off of”
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The Dictator's Army
Recommended“And it it's just one of these things like there's a very good book that I think people need to read if you want to know kind of the operational impact this is going to have both on the US military and probably to an extent law enforcement. We look at agencies like the FBI. There's a book called the”
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Project Beta
Discussed“and one of the issues with my sources because the two of the I've got a bunch of articles in here that you can you can find but there's also two books that I I read for this one is saucered Spooks and Cooks by Adam goley and one is Project beta by Greg Bishop”
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The Roswell Incident
Discussed“in September of 1980 Moore finished a blockbuster book the Roswell incident which is yeah that's one of the things that Reit public entrance”
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Behind the Flying Saucers
Discussed“in 1950 a guy named Frank Scully publishes a book titled behind the flying saucers based on an article he'd written for variety”
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
Discussed“but hey isn't this exactly the plot of the 1950s movie The Day the Earth Stood ”
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Venusian Health Magic and Secret Science (Combined Edition)
Discussed“so Molly this book venutian Health magic and venutian secret science um is a a beautiful work of art”
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Annihilation
Recommended“and watch the movie Annihilation or don't ”
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The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds
Critiqued“And so Robert S. Griffin he wrote um uh what is it? The fame of a dead man's deeds. Is that what it's called? He went into it, you know, saying like, I'm going to write this neutral appraisal of this figure of the movement about William Luther Pierce.”
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The Klansman’s Son
Discussed“Yeah. I mean, that's a window you don't often get, although I guess now we do also have um The Clansman's Son by um Don Black's daughter. Black's daughter or son? She has transitioned. Oh, I did not know that.”
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Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism
Discussed“So Siege was a newsletter that became a book. People read the book and then the people who read that book turned it back into a zine, right? So it's it's sort of oh to some level, right? It's moving through its phases”
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The Daughters' War
Recommended“read a f a new fantasy series uh one of the books in it is called the daughters War it's very good you should check it out”
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The Iron Curtain Over America
Discussed“John Owen Batty, the longtime chairman of the English Department of Southern Methodist University in Dallas in 1951, authored one of the first and perhaps the best-selling of all time book promoting Holocaust denial, Iron Curtain Over America.”
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Rattling the Cages
Recommended“Eric is also the co-editor of a book called Rattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners, which has a forward by none other than Angela Davis and is worth checking out.”
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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Frames Of Mind
Discussed“I've heard you referen before Howard Gardner's frames of of Mind theory of multiple intelligences book and in that book it says that there are five types of intelligences”
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Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)
Recommended“mistakes were made but not by me I recommend that book highly it came out about 10 years ago I think it's Elliot Aronson”
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Becoming Bulletproof
Recommended“so i recommend if you haven't read it i know a lot of people have because they tag me in it all over the place um i highly recommend you read the book becoming bulletproof life lessons from a secret service agent”
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The Social Paradox
Recommended“it's called the social paradox when finding what you want means losing what you need by William Von hippo”
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Tiny Habits
Recommended“and um I worked with my friend BJ fog who wrote a wonderful book called tiny habits and he's the um director of Stanford's persuasive technology lab”
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Why We Get Sick
Discussed“you talk about four pillars to eating in your book while we get sick you outline these four essential pillars to develop a strategy for maintaining low insulin levels and combating insulin resistance”
Breaking Points
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Supreme Power
Recommended“there's a book I'm totally blanking on the name right now which I highly recommend God okay supreme power That's What It Is by Jeff social I read it several years ago it's called supreme power Franklin Roosevelt versus Supreme Court which goes into this”
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The Outpost
Recommended“there's a book uh Jake Tapper wrote that there's a movie as well I think I'm blanking on the name at The Outpost that's what it is”
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Alpha
Recommended“As far as the Gallagher C case I recommend there's a book called Alpha about Eddie Gallagher it's very anti- Eddie Gallagher”
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Black Reconstruction in America
Discussed“in his 1935 book Black reconstruction in America Duo famously argued that a key reason why the Confederacy collapsed and the institution of slavery with it was because when Union Soldiers arrived in the South black Americans as Duo put it left the plantations and led a general strike”
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Mandate for Leadership II
Discussed“she is the director at the center for Education policy at the Heritage Foundation and also wrote the chapter in heritage's mandate for leadership also known now as project 2025 on education policy”
The Rubin Report
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Cheiro's Book of Numbers
Discussed“and then you know Jordan was talking out of the Book of Numbers the other day I've taken the Book of Numbers very seriously this is wandering in the desert and they're very dissatisfied”
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The origins of English individualism
Recommended“so I mean there there's a there's a great book on uh called the origins of English and individualism by uh Professor called Alan mcfar and he goes through the historical records and finds that actually going back to like 1200 in England there's a a thve saving property market right now”
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Why Are Jews Liberals?
Discussed“and was it Norman P heritz John pitz which perur one of the putz wrote that book Why are Jews liberal”
My First Million
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American Kingpin
Discussed“Sam has been telling me about a book for probably 10 years in a row and I finally got around to reading it this year and the book is American kingpen”
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Hatching Twitter
Discussed“it's a it's a page Turner and the author Nick Bilton not only wrote that but he wrote hatching Twitter and a bunch of other stuff”
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Discussed“the amount of research that people like Gabriel Garcia mer C put into 100 Years of Solitude and like into chest it's like when you read these they they're not telling you all this they're just telling you a story”
The Dr. John Delony Show
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The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
Discussed“yeah the ruthless elimination of hurry yeah yeah thank you ruthless um really good books I I want”
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The Intentional Father
Recommended“um you and your husband need to go through John Tyson's book The intentional father it is a faith-based book so if you're not a faith-based person I think the book is still extraordinary um but if you are people of Faith it's it's the best fathering book I've read”
How I Write
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The Unquiet Grave
Discussed“and it's called the unquiet grave and it go it be this the first end”
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Enemies of promise and other essays
Discussed“his first book called enemies of Promise which each chapter shows you a different way that you'll go wrong as a writer”
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City of God
Discussed“one of the foundational books for me in my life is St Augustine's city of God”
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King James Bible OLD TESTAMENT-PCE
Discussed“and the King James Bible is very famous for that For the tremendous Simplicity of the language”
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The Book of Job
Discussed“that is a lifting from The Book of Job uh I think there's also a usage of that phrase in in Jeremiah”
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Book of Jeremiah
Discussed“uh I think there's also a usage of that phrase in in Jeremiah but I think he he probably took it from job”
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Tom Jones
Discussed“it is possible for a man to know something without having been at school as it is to have been at school and to know nothing from this beautiful novel called Tom Jones by Henry Fielding”
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$100M Leads
Discussed“take a 100 million doll leads”
The Ezra Klein Show
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Why Most Things Fail
Recommended“second one I would say um a British Economist Paul orad has got a book called why most fail and you should read it first of all because it's a great title uh number two because as an economist he's gone through the data um mostly British and American data that goes back 150 years economic data and try to”
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Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers. the Media after Trump
Recommended“he is the Marshall mclo of the 21st century but I would if I had to pick one I would pick um post journalism and the death of newspapers which is um basically a history of the art form very detailed history of the art form kind of explaining”
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Race and Reunion
Recommended“The last book that I would recommend is by the historian David blight and it's called race and reunion and it's a history of how immediately after the Civil War and in the sort of subsequent years Americans worked through their memories of the war individually and kind of collectively as a polity”
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A Survivor's Education
Recommended“I want to start by recommending a book by a friend of mine actually her name is join new Meer and the book is called a survivor's education”
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North Woods
Recommended“um I love the book Northwoods by Daniel Mason um which came out last year uh which is about a house the history of a house and the people who lived in it”
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The Piano Tuner
Recommended“I'm reading the piano tuner right now I'm reading all his stuff”
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Symbolism, the Sacred and the Arts
Discussed“elsewhere in that you talked about something that I picked up while reading that book you gave me told me to read profane in the sa oh you read that oh great”
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Incognito
Discussed“I was reading let me just the secret Incognito The Secret Lives of the brain and you spend a fair bit of time in that book talking about perception”
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Liberal Bullies
Discussed“I don't know if you've read it there's a a book by a psychologist called Luke Conway that came out I think a year ago uh called liberal bullies and what he has done which is fascinating is he's gone back and looked at all the old stuff on right-wing authoritarianism and and and the SC and the scales the”
EconTalk
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A Line in the Sand
Recommended“But after a little research, I discovered a book, A Line in the Sand: Britain, France, and the Struggle to Shape the Middle East by our guest, James Barr.”
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International Institutions of the Middle East
Recommended“But after a little research, I discovered a book, A Line in the Sand: Britain, France, and the Struggle to Shape the Middle East by our guest, James Barr.”
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The Economists' Hour
Critiqued“I know you've had Apple bomb on your show about the economist hour ... that I think he always got it I think he got it wrong”
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Knowledge And Decisions
Recommended“at the very end of his book knowledge and decisions which I think is doesn't get talked enough about it has he has one of the best uh paragraphs I've ever read”
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I Can't Stop Thinking About VAR
Recommended“My guest today has been Daisy Christodoulou. Her book is I Can't Stop Thinking About VAR.”
ChooseFI
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Changing Your Money Mindset
Recommended“I think about Vicky Robins book your money or your life really like if you were to calculate how much your time is worth is it worth the hassle of chasing down some of these high yield savings accounts”
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
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Boyd
Recommended“and if I can just give a quick book recommendation this book Boyd by Robert korm about John Boyd the Air Force Colonel who you know was part of the reformist movement I feel like everyone in Silicon Valley has that book on their shelf and no one's actually read it”
The Book Review
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Orbital
Book club“he and his panel will be talking about Samantha Harvey's orbital the winner of the 2024 Booker prize”
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies
Discussed“arguably his most famous work the gashly Crum tinies is a book of 26 scenes proceeding from A to Z in which children meet just absolutely terrible ends”
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The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase
Discussed“when I got into kind of young Reader Books some of my favorites had Edward gory covers Wolves of willowy Chase and the other Joan aen books have a perfect match with gory's covers”
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The Insect God
Discussed“actually that's part of a Trilogy you'll recall the vinegar works three volumes of moral instruction and and of those three gley crom tines is the most famous but the insect God was actually always my favorite”
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The Iron Tonic, Or, A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley
Discussed“another one I was thinking about is the iron tonic or a winter afternoon in lonely Valley”
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The Doubtful Guest
Discussed“I think one of his more famous ones is a book called The doubtful guest”
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The Willowdale Handcar
Recommended“my favorite and let me know if you've read it is called called the Willowdale handar”
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From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey
Recommended“it's called from Ted to Tom and it's called The Illustrated envelopes of Edward gory”
Candace
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The Women of Rothschild
Discussed“then there was a biography which was written by author Natalie Livingston which was entitled the women of Rothschild which sort of revealed the maniacal desire that the rtha family had to maintain their fortune and their power in the world”
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Revolution
Discussed“uh which is entitled uh Revolution”
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MARVEL STUDIOS' DEADPOOL and WOLVERINE
Discussed“this one's called Marvel Studios Deadpool in Wolverine the art of the movie”
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The Wolverine
Discussed“this one's called Marvel Studios Deadpool in Wolverine the art of the movie”
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"The Erl king" by Michel Tournier
Discussed“that book being called The Earl King in English those are the books that are on his bedside table his beloved maternal grandmother shared a liking for these authors with him”
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Deux jeunesses françaises
Discussed“Herve alal laranda made what is likely the greatest effort to look into Emanuel macron's upbringing in his investigative book uh which in English is two young French women”
The Tim Ferriss Show
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The Felt Meanings of the World
Recommended“Quentin Smith wrote this very weird book called The Felt Meanings of the World, which I always loved. It's weird.”
Conversations with Tyler
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A Farewell to arms
Discussed“his book from 2007 A Farewell to alms presented a new theory of economic growth human progress and the Industrial Revolution I end up as one of the blubbers and I called it as I wrote In The New York Times the next Blockbuster in economics”
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The Son Also Rises
Discussed“his book after that the Sun s so n Also Rises surnames in the history of social Mobility among other things argues that rates of social Mobility have been much less much more static much harder to change than many people believe”
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THE SPACE TRILOGY - Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra & That Hideous Strength
Discussed“mine langle you get it in CS Lewis's the space Trilogy right where there are other species in the universe that are”
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
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Election
Discussed“and they did a sequel to it called Tracy flick can't win Tom Pera wrote a second book like years and years later and they're doing it Alexander p is supposed to do it they're getting the script together”
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Tracy Flick Can't Win
Discussed“and they did a sequel to it called Tracy flick can't win Tom Pera wrote a second book like years and years later and they're doing it Alexander p is supposed to do it they're getting the script together”
This Week in Startups
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Molly's Game
Discussed“and um Toby that are chronicled in uh Molly's game I had dinner with Molly two years ago A friend brought her to a dinner I was having a Carbone in Miami”
Honestly with Bari Weiss
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A New Guide to Sex in the 21st Century
Discussed“it's called a new Guide to Sex in the 21st century”
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Sex and culture
Discussed“I Revisited recently um for an essay the work of um this Edwardian Anthropologist British Anthropologist called JD Unwin he wrote a book called sex and culture which was published in the 1930s”
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The Romanovs
Discussed“his many books like Stalin the court of the red SAR the Roman no and Katherine the Great to name a few are essential to understanding power politics Revolution dictatorships and above all human nature”
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Catherine the Great
Discussed“his many books like Stalin the court of the red SAR the Roman no and Katherine the Great to name a few are essential to understanding power politics Revolution dictatorships and above all human nature”
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Jerusalem
Discussed“most of his books are biographies of people but Jerusalem is a biography of a city a city as he writes that is the house of the one God the capital of two peoples the Temple of three religions and the only city to exist twice in heaven and on Earth the book takes takes you through Jerusalem's 3,000 year”
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Demons
Recommended“I read a lot so I I sometimes I even forget so I'm actually uh I just finished reading this book right here which is dovi it's demons and uh this is a wonderful novel about what happens when a society tries to replace the idea of God with ideologies in this particular case communism”
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Catherine the Great & Potemkin
Discussed“The Romanovs, and Catherine the Great, to name a few, are essential to understanding power, politics, revolution, dictatorships, and above all, human nature.”
The Ramsey Show
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The Debt Snowball Method
Discussed“I've been through debt like twice like $10,000 worth and I read your book the snowball method I got out of like a 10,000 debt twice”
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Becoming Your Own Banker
Discussed“it's like and yes I've heard of the book where they go if you just read book how be your own Banker how to be your own banker and the concept is you're going to borrow against a policy”
The Megyn Kelly Show
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We Bombed in New Haven
Discussed“there was a great play by uh Joseph heler who was the author of catch22 called we bombed the New Haven and there was a character in it who says we're g to bomb Constantinople off the map”
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Black Faces, Black Interests
Discussed“my prize winning first book Black Faces black interest the representation of African-Americans in Congress was the book that was plagarized”
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Presumed Guilty
Recommended“well just now Scott too has dropped his sequel It's like one of the sequels I guess it's like the second sequel to presumed innocent and it's called presumed guilty”
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Innocent
Recommended“so it got me on a Scott Taro path and I didn't realize he did write a sequel to Presumed Innocent called innocent”
The Tucker Carlson Show
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The Grand Chessboard
Critiqued“very good book good in that it's insightful terrible book in that it's all wrong by big brinsky and many of you have probably read it called the Grand chessboard”
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The Arrogance of Power
Discussed“he wrote a book in the 1960s called the arrogance of power and I was a a kid then uh and I read that book like it was the coolest thing imaginable”
SmartLess
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The Wild Robot
Recommended“I read the book this book by Peter Brown there's a reason it was a number one bestseller in the New York Times and won all these Awards”
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Source Code
Recommended“he's got this new book coming out that's that's you know about like how this all started for him how his brain started going and how he got biography uh yes I believe so yeah it's called source code”
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Bye Bye Birdie
Discussed“and you know byebye birdie yes you [ __ ] sorry I meant to say Bye Bye Birdie bye bye”
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
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The Algebra of Wealth
Discussed“one of the things I love you talk about in the book The algebra of wealth is you talk about the challenge we have with our goals”
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Magic Pill
Recommended“We actually interviewed I interviewed Yan Harry a good friend of mine who wrote the book The Magic pill he's on ozm pic and he's gone and done all the research from the biggest experts in the space and the naysayers in the space”
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Source Code Optimization Techniques for Data Flow Dominated Embedded Software
Discussed“like it felt like when I was reading source code I felt like your father was there to always save you in these moments”
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Nexus
Discussed“I was reading this book Nexus where Harari says then when the prin press comes along it actually is books about witches”
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The Gospel of Wealth
Recommended“you know Carnegie Gospel of wealth the history of what rock of did”
Modern Wisdom
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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century
Discussed“it's only a small passage in John K's book The Corporation of the 21st century which is his attack largely the whole book is an attack on the idea of the shareholder value movement”
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The Silo Effect
Recommended“and it's very similar to you know the the phenomenon that Jillian T spotted um I don't know if you read the silo effect have you had Jillian on the show”
People I (Mostly) Admire
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The Bodhisattva's Brain
Discussed“now you ended up examining Buddhism from a philosophical and neuroscientific perspective in a book that's called the bodh sata's brain right”
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Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book
Discussed“for example in the what they call the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous there's a preface by Dr silkworth in which he says that his view is that addiction is an allergy”
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Discussed“in 19 39 when Alcoholics Anonymous published the big books of Alcoholics Anonymous they realized oh my God our book is a bestseller and we're a nonprofit”
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The Mentality of Apes
Discussed“there's a wonderful book written by a psychologist called the mentality of Apes wolf ganga and he studied this colony of captive apes and he describes so many Innovative use of objects”
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Dr. Spock On Parenting
Discussed“well at that time invogue was do you remember Dr Spock sure read the books about parenting and my own mother was a wonderful example of good parenting so my son was raised on a mixture of Mom's parenting Dr Spock's advice”
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An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Discussed“it's called an absolutely remarkable thing last week and 20 Pages turned into me getting totally enthrall by it and reading the whole thing in two days”
The Daily Stoic
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The Terrible
Discussed“there's another memoir out there and i'll go back to matthew but there your of daily ward wrote a memoir called the terrible”
The Shawn Ryan Show
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Civilian Warriors
Recommended“and then of course read his read his book civilian warriors”
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Psychic Warrior
Recommended“and the name of the book is called um psychic Warrior... I don't believe the gentleman uh is practicing anymore... so if you want an interesting book to read or anybody in your audience that listens pick up the book psychic Warrior”
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The King James Version of the Bible
Discussed“so we got this red letter edition of the King James version of the Bible and the red letter Edition for people who don't know it's the Edition that has Jesus's words all in red and to me that was exactly what I wanted”
StarTalk Radio
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Atlas of peculiar galaxies
Discussed“and there was someone in our field who compiled them into one catalog chip ARP called the atlas of peculiar Galaxy”
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The Handy Quantum Physics Answer Book
Recommended“so Charles finished a book recently I loved it the quantum something the handy quantum physics answer book they have the word handy and Quantum in the same title”
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Champions of Illusion
Discussed“nice love that title and more recently champions of Illusion in 2017”
The Rich Roll Podcast
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Fasting Cancer
Discussed“and there's a lot of animal studies now some clinical trials that are suggesting this is also in my book that are suggesting that the ketogen can be beneficial but people don't talk about the cancers that are fed by Ketone bodies”
Huberman Lab
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The Naked Warrior
Discussed“I'd like to talk about body weight training I love love love the book Nam Naked Warrior”
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The Mindful Body
Recommended“I hope you found it to be as fascinating as I did to learn more about Dr Langer's work to find links to her books and workshops and other resources please see the show note captions”
Timcast IRL
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What to Expect When No One's Expecting
Discussed“one thing I want to point out so I read this book years ago called what to expect when no one's expecting and it was by Jonathan last before he went nuts on this Trump Arrangement stuff”
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Men and Marriage
Discussed“George Gilder uh I he wrote a book with us on monetary policy but he's like this Prophet from Silicon Valley he wrote This original book called men in marriage in like the 80s”
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Life after television
Discussed“and then in the 90s he wrote this book called life after television but in the book that he wrote for us is called the scandal of money and it's a good read”
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The Scandal of Money
Recommended“and then in the 90s he wrote this book called life after television but in the book that he wrote for us is called the scandal of money and it's a good read”
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The City of God
Discussed“when St Augustine was around a lot of the pagans were blaming the collapse of the Western Roman Empire on Christianity because the gods are now mad and he wrote city of God to refute that”
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Nvidia Way
Recommended“There's this recent book, "The Nvidia Way" by Tae Kim, that details this and they're how they look for future opportunities”
