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Matt Taibbi books: every book Matt Taibbi wrote and recommended
Across 4 podcasts. Every show Matt Taibbi appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by Matt Taibbi
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I can't breathe
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Hate Inc
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The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing
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The great derangement
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Insane Clown President
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Spanking the donkey
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Griftopia
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The Divide
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Smells Like Dead Elephants
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The Exile
Matt Taibbi’s most recommended books
- Manufacturing consent by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman, John Pruden
- All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
- Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy
- Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
- Information Wars by Richard Stengel
- Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier
- Minority Report by John D. Griffin
- Papillon by Henri Charrière
Matthew Colin Taibbi is an American author, journalist and podcaster. A former contributing editor for Rolling Stone, he is the author of several books and publisher of Racket News. He has reported on finance, media, politics and sports. Appearing on programs such as The Megyn Kelly Show, The Tucker Carlson Show, and The Joe Rogan Experience, Taibbi discussed various literary works to illustrate political, social, and media dynamics. He referenced Erica Jong's Fear of Flying to discuss the evolution of cultural attitudes toward sexual liberation. Taibbi brought up Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's All the President's Men to highlight cautious historical reporting practices, and he cited Joseph Heller's play We Bombed in New Haven regarding political messaging. He also discussed Graham Greene's The Quiet American to examine Western journalistic attitudes, Richard Stengel's Information Wars to explain the ideological background of the Global Engagement Center, John D. Griffin and Brian Newman's Minority Report to compare federal pre-crime intelligence gathering, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman's Manufacturing Consent regarding institutional pressures on media, and Abigail Shrier's Irreversible Damage when addressing online platform censorship.
Books recommended by Matt Taibbi
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Manufacturing consent
Manufacturing Consent by Edward S.
Discussed“believe it or not Nome Chomsky wrote about a million years ago in a book called manufacturing consent like you see coming up in the business”
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All the President's Men
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward is a classic work of investigative journalism detailing the reporting process behind the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon's presidency.
Discussed“Go back and watch all the president's men. They were afraid to put out a story that had four sources behind it and they still got it wrong”
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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is a classic nineteenth-century Russian novel that explores themes of betrayal, faith, family, and societal hypocrisy through the tragic romance of its title character.
Discussed“it may be just as interesting but it just requires less work so the hardest thing to read is you know Anna Karenina or something like that right”
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Dead Souls
Discussed“my favorite book growing up was about a con man it was this book called dead souls uh by a russian writer named goggle and it's about it's it's about a guy who basically buys a bunch of dead serfs uh and mortgages them”
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S.
Discussed“well he so hundreds of this great thing he he he wrote about it it was it was kind of a spoof of campaign coverage because he he did this whole campaign diary and then he just kind of went into this deadpan recitation of what sounded like a breaking news story about him discovering Muskies secret relationship with a”
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Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying by Erica Jong is a landmark 1973 feminist novel that broke cultural taboos surrounding female sexuality and autonomy.
Discussed“I mean, you could go all the way back to fear of flying, right? And, you know, even as kids in the MTV generation, I remember we were all getting the message that, you know, the right to pursue as many sexual partners as you wanted was something that was empowering and freeing.”
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Information Wars
Discussed“He wrote a book called Information Wars that we all had to read when we were doing the Twitter files, because we didn't know about this organization.”
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Irreversible Damage
Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier is a 2020 nonfiction book that examines the sharp surge in adolescent girls adopting transgender identities, attributing the trend largely to social contagion and peer influence.
Discussed“well abigail schreier is experiencing that in you know like the most hateful and aggressive way with uh her book i believe it's called irreversible damage right”
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Minority Report
Minority Report by John D.
Discussed“it's sort of like Minority Report right it's pre- crime”
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Papillon
Discussed“I love books that are written after the fact by people who were in crime you know like Papillon was one of my favorite books growing up”
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Reporter
Discussed“like it's a great story that that's like sort of apropos to all this is um in seymour hirsch's book uh it's his memoir reporter there's a story about how in the early 90s the cia wanted everybody to know that they had caught”
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The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing
Discussed“I co-wrote a book with a black author um called the business secrets of drug dealing”
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe is a classic work of New Journalism chronicling Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and their psychedelic adventures across America in the 1960s.
Discussed“no no no U no no no uh like the Kool-Aid Acid Test yep yes exactly”
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The Quiet American
The Quiet American by Graham Greene is a brilliant political novel set in Vietnam that examines the tragic consequences of misguided Western idealism and foreign intervention through the eyes of a cynical, world-weary British journalist.
Discussed“It's like, you know, if you've read the quiet American read, it was it was that attitude toward.”
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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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Other mentions (8: passing, ad reads, own books)
“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”
“But for the most part, you know, people came in, and they just treated it as a, you know, as a third world backwater.It's like, you know, if you've read The Quiet American, it was that attitude toward...”
“I had a book out at the time. Called Insane Clown President about Donald Trump.”
“so I wrote a book called griftopia uh it's griftopia”
“And I I worry, you know, this is like the the All the President's Men thing.”
“well a lot and this is what I mean I have a new book out now that's really about this right what why the business has changed what's it called hey tink”
“I'm writing this book I spelled it too it's called the business secrets of drug dealing you can find it at business secrets of drug dealing calm and I'm serializing it”
“I'm writing this book I spelled it too It's called the business secrets of drug dealing You can find it at business secrets of drug dealing calm And I'm serializing it but basically somebody I knew for ages in a completely different capacity I sort of came out to me last year and said um you know I've been a”