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Every book Larry Elder recommended on podcasts
Across 3 podcasts. Every show Larry Elder appears on, in one place — not just one.
Larry Elder’s most recommended books
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
- Hiding in Plain Sight by Eric Stover, Victor Peskin, Alexa Koenig
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings by Alexis de Tocqueville
- The Negro Family. The Case for National Action. [By Daniel Patrick Moynihan.]. by United States. Department of Labor, 1913- . Office of Policy Planning and Research
- The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
- The Tragedy of American Compassion by Marvin Olasky
- Training day by Greg Weisman
- Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
- Who Really Cares by Arthur C. Brooks
Laurence Allen Elder is an American conservative political commentator and talk radio host. He hosts The Larry Elder Show, based in California. Throughout appearances on various programs such as Timcast IRL, The Megyn Kelly Show, and The Rubin Report, Larry Elder has recommended and discussed several notable books and historical texts. During an appearance on Timcast IRL, he promoted and recommended his own books, specifically the hardback Dear Father, Dear Son and the paperback A Lot Like Me. Discussing politics and historical rhetoric on The Megyn Kelly Show, Elder mentioned Marvin R. Pastore's edition of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf while talking about historical instances of political opponents labeling figures like Ronald Reagan as fascists. On the same show, he brought up Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking to discuss Donald Trump's mindset and background. While analyzing fatherlessness and family structures on Timcast IRL and The Rubin Report, Elder referenced Barack Obama's memoir Dreams from My Father, Daniel Patrick Moynihan's 1965 booklet The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, Marvin Olasky's The Tragedy of American Compassion to illustrate the impacts of welfare, and Alexis de Tocqueville's Memoirs on Pauperism to discuss historical welfare dependency in England.
Books recommended by Larry Elder
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Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama is an introspective memoir chronicling the future president's early life, family history, and journey toward self-discovery.
Discussed“Barack Obama wrote a book which was very good the first book dreams from my father and it's all about The Angst he felt because he didn't have his biological father in his life”
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A Lot Like Me
A Lot Like Me by Larry Elder is a reflective and personal memoir exploring the author's complicated relationship with his father, his upbringing, and his development into a prominent conservative radio host and political commentator.
Recommended“my books are the one i'm recommending the dear father dear son that's the hardback and a lot like me is the paperback”
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Dear Father, Dear Son
Dear Father, Dear Son is a heartfelt memoir by Larry Elder that reflects on his complex relationship with his father and the life lessons he learned growing up.
Recommended“my books are the one i'm recommending the dear father dear son that's the hardback and a lot like me is the paperback”
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Hiding in Plain Sight
Discussed“one of the things that um Alexa the Tov wrote about in Democracy in America where where all of these what what were called Mutual Aid societies that were set up this is before Social Security before Medicare before Medicaid”
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and Stephen R.
Discussed“Ronald Reagan gets his fascist precepts in the pages of mine comp”
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Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings
Discussed“Alexis de Tocqueville, excuse me, wrote about it in a book called "Memoirs on Pauperism".”
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The Negro Family. The Case for National Action. [By Daniel Patrick Moynihan.].
Discussed“now 25 of white kids entered the world without a father in the home married to the mother and 65 is important because that's when a guy named Daniel Patrick Moynihan he was then the assistant Secretary of Labor wrote A booklet for his boss called The Negro family a case for National Action at the time 25 as I”
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The Power of Positive Thinking
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale is a classic mid-century self-help book that promotes optimistic thinking, faith, and mental resilience as tools for personal achievement.
Discussed“The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peele who was his Pastor when he was growing up on that level”
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The Tragedy of American Compassion
Discussed“There's an interesting book called "The Tragedy of American Compassion" by a guy named Marvin Olasky and he looks at people during the Great Depression who were eligible for benefits, for the New Deal benefits, but for whatever reason, reasons of pride, self-sufficiency, did not take them and looked at those families 20 years down to find out which ones”
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Training day
Discussed“that was the Scandal that provoked the movie called training day that Denzel Washington starred in”
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Up From Slavery
Up From Slavery is an autobiography by Booker T.
Discussed“Booker T. Washington wrote a book called Up from Slavery. This was a man who was born a slave. He wrote a book in 1901, a mere 36 years after slavery.”
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Who Really Cares
Arthur C.
Discussed“there's a book called who really cares by a guy named arthur c brooks”
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Books Larry Elder wrote
Appearances
Other mentions (16: passing, ad reads, own books)
“I have a brand new book it's called as goes California my mission to rescue the Golden State and I'm breaking some big new”
“He wants to Outlaw the sale of new gas powered cars as I explained in my book as goes California by the year 2035”
“Tim first of all as I explained in my book they tried to keep me off the ballot the first provisional ballot comes out”
“I open my book with this story about what happened after I ran for for governor I go to a restaurant”
“I also talk in my book about I've got some back issues I know you're a skateboarder”
“I talk about this in my book I Trav up from down the state”
“I'm giving away free copies of hold it up of as goes California to everybody who opens up an Old Glory bank account”
“I also would love to see my book get on the New York Times best selling list because on your show so please go to Amazon or Barnes and Noble in order as goes California”
“Tim told me to hold it up higher it's called as goes California my mission to rescue the Golden State”
“- You know, I've written a book about my California race and what the one party state has done to the state. As you know, we've got super majorities of Democrats in the assembly and in the Senate so Republicans need not even show up for work and they pass one job killing bill after another, one freedom sapping bill”
“I had a book New York Times bestseller book called The 10 things you can't say in America first chapter was blacks are more racist than white second chapter is white condescension is as bad as black racism and another chapter about the war on drugs and about the war on guns”
“one was called the 10 things you can't say in america which came out in 2000 and my last book is about my father and me”
“i wrote a book about this called dear father dear son two lives eight hours um about the conversation”
“and the book again is called the hardback is called dear father dear son”
“two lives eight hours and the paperback is called a lot like me”
“In fact I wrote about this in my last book It's called dear father Dear Son two lives eight hours Because my father and I did not get along”