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Robert Evans's book recommendations
Books Robert Evans recommends
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Defeating Autism
Recommended“Michael wrote a great book about the biomedical movement titled defeating autism a damaging delusion”
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Foreign Body
Recommended“And there is a much more accurate look at his spying and and his involvement in intelligence agencies in the book foreign body the secret life of Robert Maxwell by Russell Davies. And Davies outlines the directions of the the dimensions of these shady dealings”
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Atlas Shrugged
Discussed“I mean, look, we're we're living through the same version of that, but just the the book is [ __ ] Atlas Shrugged.”
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Brother Number One
Discussed“In his book on Pulpot, brother number one, Chandler writes, "Recollections about Salathsar's behavior at the meetings are contradictory."”
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Cambodia
Discussed“Um now Chsky preferred a different book. Um he compared Ponchard's work uh Ponchad's work unfavorably with another book called Cambodia starvation and revolution written by George Hildebrand and Gareth Porter”
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Deadly Choices
Discussed“As off, it writes, "All these tests and procedures were expensive, potentially dangerous, and according to the opinions of expert witnesses, of no value to the child."”
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Fall
Discussed“One colleague cited in the book Fall later quoted him as having admitted, Well, of course I'm conservative, but I'm not a member of the establishment, so I've got to become labor.”
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Fall
Discussed“This is not an account that is repeated by his by Maxwell's most recent and probably most rigorous biography, Fall by John Preston, which alleges that Mel beat his son in public on a regular basis.”
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Hereditary Genius
Discussed“In 1869, he published a book, Hereditary Genius, that took his initial list of successful men in their offspring and expanded it to collect data on many different kinds of successful people.”
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Inquiries Into Human Faculty
Discussed“Galton first came up with the infamous term eugenics in the early 1880s, we don't know exactly when, but it's first published when he's working on a book called inquiries into human faculty and its development.”
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Inquiries Into Human Faculty and Its Development
Discussed“Galton first came up with the infamous term eugenics in the early 1880s, we don't know exactly when, but it's first published when he's working on a book called inquiries into human faculty and its development.”
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Kampuchea
Discussed“in fact he had finished a book before he goes there called Kampuchia a rationale for rural policy”
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Major Barbara
Discussed“In 1905, George Bernard Shaw had already in his play M. Major Barbara not been sparing with his insinuations.”
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Murder of a Gentle Land
Discussed“there was another book written by two readers digest writers called Murder of a Gentle Land that Chsky also went after”
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Superior
Discussed“As Angela Syne writes in the book Superior, Galton coined the term in 1883 from the Greek prefix "you" for "well" or "good" to describe the idea of using social control to improve the health and intelligence of future generations.”
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The Art of Travel
Discussed“His first book was such a hit that he got to write a second in 1855, and the art of travel became a bestseller and in modified form, a textbook for the Royal Geographic Society”
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The Fateful Alliance
Discussed“as Herman Beck lays out in his book the fateful alliance students preceded the established bildings burgurtum in appropriating a new conservatism before the German defeat in the first world war”
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The Origin of Species
Discussed“In the 1859 publication of The Origin of Species by his older cousin, Charles Darwin, electrified and inspired him.”
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Toxic Childhood
Discussed“and in fact among the most influential of them is former school teacher Sue Palmer author of the book toxic childhood published in 2006”
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Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing The Lord of the Rings
“Jairer Tolkien who writes "The Lord of the Rings" and is like, fucking has to fight in World War I.”
Passing Incomparable Values
“reading a book right now called "Intomperable," which is about, like, Napoleon Bonaparte's the most elite, like, regiment in his entire army, the ninth infantry.”
Own book Cultish
“Amanda Montel, our great guest and the author of Ctish, as soon as we finish this recording”
Passing Cultish
“Our wonderful guest today, Amanda Montel, author of the book Cultish, which I've cited on this show.”