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Every book Erik Prince recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Erik Prince has recommended or discussed 13 books on podcasts, as of June 16, 2025.
- Erik Prince has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of June 16, 2025.
- Those books came up in 6 episodes, as of June 16, 2025.
- The 3 books Erik Prince has mentioned in the most episodes, as of June 16, 2025: To Dare and to Conquer, Freedom's Forge and Means of Control.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Erik Prince aired on June 16, 2025.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Erik Prince appears on, in one place, not just one.
Erik Prince’s most recommended books
- To Dare and to Conquer by Derek Leebaert
- Freedom's Forge by Arthur Herman
- Means of Control by Byron Tau
- The Mystery of Capital by Hernando De Soto
- The Myth of Capitalism by Jonathan Tepper
- The Other Path by Hernando de Soto
- The Party by Barbara Reid
- The psychology of war by John Thompson MacCurdy
Erik Prince is an American businessman, who is the founder of private military contractor Blackwater. He was Blackwater's CEO until 2009 and its chairman until its sale to a group of investors in 2010. Prince founded the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group in 2012 and was chairman of the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group until 2021. Prince is the son of engineer and businessman Edgar Prince, and the brother of former U.S. secretary of education Betsy DeVos. Appearing on The Shawn Ryan Show and The Tucker Carlson Show, Prince recommended Byron Tau's Means of Control to discuss data collection and the surveillance industry, John Thompson MacCurdy's The Psychology of War as a psychological study of military disasters, Derek Leebaert's To Dare and to Conquer as a history of special operations, Sean J. Savage's Roosevelt, the Party Leader, 1932-1945 to describe the organization of the Chinese Communist Party, Jonathan Tepper's The Myth of Capitalism to illustrate a lack of competition in American industry, Hernando de Soto's The Mystery of Capital and The Other Path to highlight property rights and global economics, and Arthur Herman's Freedom's Forge to discuss American manufacturing during World War II.
Books Erik Prince recommended or discussed
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To Dare and to Conquer
Recommended“I recommend the book a lot it's called to DARE and to conquer and a friend gave it to me years ago and it's a it's a history of Special Operations throughout history all the way from Alexander the Great and his men that climbed sagian Rock and to to the present of a few picked men and women very”
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Freedom's Forge
Recommended“there is a great book I read called Freedom's Forge so coming back to who really defeated the Nazis the Soviets did most of the heavy lifting”
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Means of Control
Recommended“there is a fantastic book written by Byron toao called the means of control”
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The Mystery of Capital
Recommended“you wrote a couple of books one of them is called uh invisible capital recommended and the other is uh the other path obviously the other path other than The Shining path”
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The Myth of Capitalism
Recommended“a great book um that I I recently read actually at the impetus of my daughter was called the myth of capitalism like Jonathan Tepper please read it please have your audience read it”
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The Other Path
Recommended“the other path obviously the other path other than The Shining path I'd encourage your viewers to read that as well”
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The Party
Recommended“and I read rather an interesting book called The Party and it's a really inside look as to how the CCP is organized and they actually have a a general Personnel Department that assigns people into certain roles whether it's into a company into a private company into a government Ministry or whatever”
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The psychology of war
Recommended“it's called the psychology of military incompetence and it and it went through five of the biggest disasters in British military history”
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Firepower
Discussed“I've just been uh reading a book called Firepower which is a history of basically a history of gunpowder and you track the change of warfare going from Spears and longbows to the wheel”
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The Goal
Discussed“and the other one was the goal by Ellie Gold rat I still remember him”
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The machine that changed the world
Discussed“and I read two books one was called the machine that change the world um which is about the Toyota production system”
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The Pirate Coast
Discussed“another book that I read called the pirate Coast which la which laid out the uh how the US dealt with the barber pirates in Libya in 1804 1805”
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Unrestricted warfare
Discussed“There was a couple of Chinese colonels, PLA colonels, that wrote a book called Unrestricted Warfare.”
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