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Cory Booker
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Every book Cory Booker recommended on podcasts

Key facts

  • Cory Booker has recommended or discussed 6 books on podcasts, as of December 25, 2023.
  • Cory Booker has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of December 25, 2023.
  • Those books came up in 4 episodes, as of December 25, 2023.
  • The 3 books Cory Booker has mentioned in the most episodes, as of December 25, 2023: Fist Stick Knife Gun, Letter from Birmingham Jail and Finding Ultra.
  • The latest episode with a book mention from Cory Booker aired on December 25, 2023.

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Guest on The Rich Roll Podcast, Pod Save America · 6 books · 4 episodes across 2 podcasts

Across 2 podcasts. Every show Cory Booker appears on, in one place, not just one.

Cory Anthony Booker is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from New Jersey, a seat he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Booker is the first African-American U.S. senator from New Jersey. He was the 38th mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013, and served on the Municipal Council of Newark for the Central Ward from 1998 to 2002. Senator Cory Booker recommended Geoffrey Canada's book 'Fist Stick Knife Gun' when discussing inspirations for what he would do if he knew he could not fail. He also discussed Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'Letter from Birmingham Jail' to emphasize the importance of civic participation and illustrate the spiritual and material truth about the interconnectedness of communities. Booker referenced Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' regarding corporate concentration in slaughterhouses, Abby Mann's 'Judgment at Nuremberg' in a story about a lawyer inspired to do pro bono work, Karl Weber's documentary book 'Food, Inc,' and Rich Roll's 'Finding Ultra.'

Books Cory Booker recommended or discussed

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  1. Fist Stick Knife Gun

    Geoffrey Canada · Recommended · 1 episode

    Fist Stick Knife Gun by Geoffrey Canada is a powerful memoir and sociological examination of growing up amid violence in the inner city, while also outlining the foundations of the Harlem Children's Zone.

    Recommended
    “wrote about the Harlem children's Zone wrote a book called fist stick knife gun a little thin book that's really amazing”
    The Rich Roll Podcast Senator Cory Booker On Unity, Hope & Healthy Food For All 2023-04-03 Listen at 32:15
    Where to get it
    Listen free with an Audible trialAmazon

  2. Letter from Birmingham Jail

    MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.; Martin Luther King · Recommended · 1 episode

    Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. is a historic epistle written from a jail cell that defends nonviolent resistance against racial injustice and argues for moral responsibility and direct action.

    Discussed
    “true to King's ideal that he wrote about in the letters from the Birmingham Jail that were all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a common Garment of destiny that Injustice anywhere is indeed a threat to Justice everywhere”
    The Rich Roll Podcast Senator Cory Booker On Unity, Hope & Healthy Food For All 2023-04-03 Listen at 13:25
    Where to get it
    Listen free with an Audible trialAmazon

  3. Finding Ultra

    Rich Roll · Discussed · 1 episode

    Finding Ultra is a memoir by Rich Roll that chronicles his transformative journey from battling severe alcohol addiction to becoming an extreme endurance athlete and ultramarathoner.

    Where to get it
    Listen free with an Audible trialAmazon

  4. Food, Inc

    Karl Weber · Discussed · 1 episode

    Discussed
    “you know that we a lot of people know how bad it is a lot of people will see food Inc and they will go to McDonald's on the way home”
    Pod Save America Ron DeSantis and MAGA Republicans Couldn't Be More Wrong About Silicon… 2023-03-14 Listen at 53:54
    Where to get it
    Listen free with an Audible trialAmazon

  5. Judgment at Nuremberg

    Abby Mann · Discussed · 1 episode

    Discussed
    “the best story of my life which I think about all the time is this white guy on a couch in in March almost to the day that we're recording this in in 1965 March 7th watching TV starting a law firm busy as hell watching a movie called Judgment at Nuremberg”
    The Rich Roll Podcast Senator Cory Booker On Unity, Hope & Healthy Food For All 2023-04-03 Listen at 1:02:40
    Where to get it
    Listen free with an Audible trialAmazon

  6. The Jungle

    Upton Sinclair · Discussed · 1 episode

    The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a 1906 novel that serves as a harsh expose of working conditions in Chicago's meatpacking industry during the Gilded Age.

    Discussed
    “First of all, overwhelmingly undocumented immigrants from our our our farms that are picking most of the food we eat, even to our slaughter houses, which are more corporate concentrated than during the time of uh uh Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.”
    The Rich Roll Podcast The Best Of 2023: Part One 2023-12-25 Listen at 1:23:44
    Where to get it
    Listen free with an Audible trialAmazon

Appearances

EpisodePodcastDateBooks
The Best Of 2023: Part OneThe Rich Roll Podcast2023-12-251
Senator Cory Booker On Unity, Hope & Healthy Food For AllThe Rich Roll Podcast2023-04-034
Ron DeSantis and MAGA Republicans Couldn't Be More Wrong About Silicon Valley Bank And "Wokeness"Pod Save America2023-03-141
Roll On: Guns, Liberty & Responsibility (+ Sen. Cory Booker)The Rich Roll Podcast2022-06-091