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Robert Evans’s book recommendations in 2020

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Part One: Nestor Makhno: Anarchist Warlord and Book Club Aficionado

Behind the Bastards · 2020-12-22

Mutual Aid by Peter Kropotkin · discussed · at 1:15:54
Betrayal of the American Right, The by Murray Newton Rothbard · discussed · at 1:21:34

Part Two: How The John Birch Society Invented The Modern Far Right

Behind the Bastards · 2020-12-17

World of the John Birch Society by D. Mulloy · discussed · at 4:22
The Politician by Robert Welch · discussed · at 8:14
The Dan Smoot Report on Restoring the Republic by Dan Smoot · discussed · at 12:42
National review by William F. Buckley · discussed · at 12:42
The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry M. Goldwater · discussed · at 45:42

Part One: How The John Birch Society Invented The Modern Far Right

Behind the Bastards · 2020-12-15

The Road to Salesmanship by Robert Welch · discussed · at 20:10
May God Forgive Us by Robert Welch · discussed · at 49:20
The Politician by Robert Welch · discussed · at 1:05:52

Part Two: Roy Cohn: The Man Who Made Donald Trump

Behind the Bastards · 2020-12-10

Angels in America by Tony Kushner · recommended · at 58:52

Part One: Roy Cohn: The Man Who Made Donald Trump

Behind the Bastards · 2020-12-08

The Crucible by Arthur Miller · discussed · at 44:44

Part Two: The Worst Police Union In History

Behind the Bastards · 2020-12-03

Politics by Aristotle · discussed · at 29:09

Part One: The Worst Police Union In History

Behind the Bastards · 2020-12-01

Politics by Aristotle · discussed · at 19:50

Episode 1: Uprising: A Guide From Portland: Why Portland?

Behind the Bastards · 2020-11-30

Politics by Aristotle · discussed · at 59:24

Let's Talk About Dave Rubin

Behind the Bastards · 2020-11-24

Don't Burn This Book by Dave Rubin · critiqued · at 7:28

Elite Panic: Why The Rich And Powerful Can't Be Trusted

Behind the Bastards · 2020-11-19

A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit · recommended · at 56:02
Tribe by Sebastian Junger · recommended · at 1:08:39

The War of the Eggs

Behind the Bastards · 2020-11-17

The Devil's Teeth by Susan Casey · discussed · at 31:00

Part Two: The Con Artist Who Invented A Country

Behind the Bastards · 2020-11-12

Sketch of the Mosquito Shore by Thomas Strangeways · discussed · at 19:26

Part One: The Con Artist Who Invented A Country

Behind the Bastards · 2020-11-10

The Land That Never Was by David Sinclair · discussed · at 20:33

A Very Special Election Reading of Ben Shapiro's Unreadable Book

Behind the Bastards · 2020-11-03

True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro · critiqued · at 3:00

Part Two: The Satanic Panic: America's First QAnon

Behind the Bastards · 2020-10-29

Monsters by Sylvia Funston · discussed · at 5:28
The Dungeon Master by William C. Dear · discussed · at 5:49
Satan's silence by Debbie Nathan, Michael R. Snedeker · discussed · at 15:28
Christian Response to Dungeons and Dragons: The Catechism of the New Age by Unknown · critiqued · at 1:00:52

Part One: The Satanic Panic: America's First QAnon

Behind the Bastards · 2020-10-27

Satan's silence by Debbie Nathan, Michael R. Snedeker · discussed · at 7:16
The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey · discussed · at 14:37
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty · discussed · at 15:14
The Satan Seller by Mike Warnke · discussed · at 16:36
Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith · discussed · at 48:41

Part One: The Jordan Peterson Episode

Behind the Bastards · 2020-10-24

Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson · discussed · at 14:44
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell · discussed · at 16:37
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell · discussed · at 18:43
All Art Is Propaganda by George Orwell · recommended · at 18:56
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell · discussed · at 28:01
New Religions and the Nazis by Karla O. Poewe · discussed · at 31:33

Part Two: The Jordan Peterson Episode

Behind the Bastards · 2020-10-22

12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson · discussed · at 10:24
Maps of Meaning by Jordan B. Peterson · discussed · at 41:09

Part Two: How Nice, Normal People Made The Holocaust Possible

Behind the Bastards · 2020-10-15

They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer · discussed · at 6:57
Backing Hitler by Robert Gellately · recommended · at 33:26
Black Earth by Timothy Snyder · recommended · at 48:54

Part One: How Nice, Normal People Made The Holocaust Possible

Behind the Bastards · 2020-10-13

The Death of Democracy by Benjamin Carter Hett · recommended · at 5:23
They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer · discussed · at 7:21
The Political Pope by George Neumayr · discussed · at 57:02

Part Two: Cecil Rhodes: The First Proud Boy

Behind the Bastards · 2020-10-08

The Heartless Stone by Tom Zoellner · discussed · at 11:16
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah · discussed · at 53:23

Part One: Cecil Rhodes: The First Proud Boy

Behind the Bastards · 2020-10-06

The Founder by Robert I. Rotberg · discussed · at 20:11

Part Two: Mark Zuckerberg Should Be On Trial For Crimes Against Humanity

Behind the Bastards · 2020-09-24

The Boy Kings by Katherine Losse · discussed · at 9:16

Part One: Mark Zuckerberg Should Be On Trial For Crimes Against Humanity

Behind the Bastards · 2020-09-22

The Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro · critiqued · at 10:38
The Iliad by Homer · discussed · at 10:38

Part Two: Carlos The Jackal, The Most Wanted Man on Earth

Behind the Bastards · 2020-09-10

Jackal by John Follain · discussed · at 13:43
The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth · discussed · at 1:21:54

Ben Shapiro's Unreadable Book is Still the Best Thing About 2020

Behind the Bastards · 2020-09-03

True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro · critiqued · at 5:21
THE TURNER DIARIES by ANDREW MACDONALD · critiqued · at 48:24

Part Two: Phyllis Schlafly: The Mother of all Culture Wars

Behind the Bastards · 2020-08-27

A Choice Not an Echo by Phyllis Schlafly · discussed · at 5:58
The gravediggers by Phyllis Schlafly · discussed · at 8:50
Mothers of Massive Resistance by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae · discussed · at 43:34
The Power of the Positive Woman by Phyllis Schlafly · discussed · at 58:20

Part One: Phyllis Schlafly: The Mother of all Culture Wars

Behind the Bastards · 2020-08-25

Strike from Space by Phyllis Schlafly · discussed · at 1:09:01
Kissinger on the Couch by Phyllis Schlafly · discussed · at 1:09:12
The Politician by Robert Welch · discussed · at 1:17:07

Part One: Alexander Lukashenko: The Dictator of Belarus

Behind the Bastards · 2020-08-18

1984 by George Orwell · discussed · at 29:31
Belarus Country Study Guide by IBP USA Staff · discussed · at 31:33

Canada's Darkest Secret: Residential Schools

Behind the Bastards · 2020-08-13

Facing History by Guy C. McElroy · discussed · at 13:36
Survivors Speak by Sabine Ravestijn · discussed · at 1:00:40

Part Two: The U.S. Border Patrol Is A Nightmare That Never Ends

Behind the Bastards · 2020-08-11

Badges without Borders by Stuart Schrader · discussed · at 10:53
Instruments of Statecraft by Michael McClintock · discussed · at 21:40

Part One: The U.S. Border Patrol Is A Nightmare That Never Ends

Behind the Bastards · 2020-08-06

Migra! by Kelly Lytle Hernandez · discussed · at 14:27

We Read An Unbearably Thirsty Joe Biden / Barrack Obama Mystery Novel

Behind the Bastards · 2020-08-04

True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro · discussed · at 7:02

America's War On Children

Behind the Bastards · 2020-07-28

The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale · discussed · at 21:04

The Bastards Who Killed Pat Tillman

Behind the Bastards · 2020-07-23

Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer · discussed · at 8:04

Ben Shapiro's Terrible Book: The Saga Continues

Behind the Bastards · 2020-07-21

True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro · discussed · at 4:10

Part Two: Bill Cooper: The Man Who Killed Truth

Behind the Bastards · 2020-07-16

Behold a Pale Farce by Bill Blunden · discussed · at 19:31
by Unknown · discussed · at 20:40

Part One: Bill Cooper: The Man Who Killed Truth

Behind the Bastards · 2020-07-14

A Culture of Conspiracy by Michael Barkun · discussed · at 11:34
Behold a Pale Farce by Bill Blunden · discussed · at 21:00

Part Two: John of God: Oprah's Favorite Ghost-Channeling Rapist Surgeon

Behind the Bastards · 2020-07-09

Cured by Jeffrey Rediger, M.D. · discussed · at 23:54

Behind the Police: How The Police Declared War On All Of Us

Behind the Bastards · 2020-07-02

The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale · discussed · at 23:08

Behind the Police: How Police Unions Made Cops Even Deadlier

Behind the Bastards · 2020-06-30

Police Administration by Wilson, O.W., McLaren, Roy · discussed · at 21:12
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale · recommended · at 1:25:25
The Unheavenly City by Edward C. Banfield · discussed · at 1:26:02
Crime Human Nature by James Q. Wilson · discussed · at 1:30:53
The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein · critiqued · at 1:31:02

Behind the Police: How The Police Defeated Lynching Via Torture

Behind the Bastards · 2020-06-25

White Rage by Carol (Carol Elaine) Anderson · discussed · at 17:32
An American dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal · discussed · at 1:10:53
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale · recommended · at 1:43:55

How The First Police Went From Gangsters, To An Army For The Rich

Behind the Bastards · 2020-06-18

Thirty Years a Detective by Allan Pinkerton · discussed · at 1:18:01

Slavery, Mass Murder and the Birth of American Policing

Behind the Bastards · 2020-06-16

Slave Patrols by Sally E. Hadden · discussed · at 45:27
12 Year's A Slave as Written By Solomon Northup by Solomon Northup · discussed · at 59:50

Part Two: The Dumbest Coup In World History

Behind the Bastards · 2020-06-11

King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard · discussed · at 38:18
The Wonga Coup by Adam Roberts · discussed · at 41:14

Part One: The Dumbest Coup In World History

Behind the Bastards · 2020-06-09

King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard · discussed · at 6:22
The Wonga Coup by Adam Roberts · discussed · at 32:54
Double Paradox by Andrew H. Wedeman · discussed · at 34:33

Part Two: I Do Not Like Elon Musk Very Much

Behind the Bastards · 2020-06-04

The Game by Neil Strauss · discussed · at 1:21:06

Part One: I Do Not Like Elon Musk Very Much

Behind the Bastards · 2020-06-03

Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance · discussed · at 19:44
Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Young Readers' Edition by Ashlee Vance · discussed · at 19:44
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien · discussed · at 38:45
The moon is a harsh mistress by Robert A. Heinlein · discussed · at 38:50
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams · discussed · at 38:50
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran · discussed · at 1:09:54

The Man Who Teaches Our Cops To Kill

Behind the Bastards · 2020-06-01

On Combat by Dave Grossman · discussed · at 16:23
On Killing by Dave Grossman · discussed · at 16:23
Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill by David Grossman · critiqued · at 30:30
Assassination Generation by Dave Grossman · discussed · at 32:44

Part Two: Jim Bowie: The Worst Texan

Behind the Bastards · 2020-05-28

Three Roads to the Alamo by William C. Davis · discussed · at 9:00

Part One: Jim Bowie: The Worst Texan

Behind the Bastards · 2020-05-26

Three Roads to the Alamo by William C. Davis · discussed · at 12:49

Part Two: Jack Idema: The War On Terror's Dumbest Grifter

Behind the Bastards · 2020-05-21

The Green Berets by Robin Moore · discussed · at 6:57
The Hunt for Bin Laden by Robin Moore · discussed · at 17:44

Part One: Jack Idema: The War On Terror's Dumbest Grifter

Behind the Bastards · 2020-05-19

Big Trouble by Dave Barry · discussed · at 41:40

The Ballad of Doctor Orgasm

Behind the Bastards · 2020-05-14

The Vagina Bible by Dr. Jen Gunter · discussed · at 31:14

We Continued Reading Ben Shapiro's Terrible Racist Novel

Behind the Bastards · 2020-05-12

True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro · discussed · at 3:04
8 mile by eminem · discussed · at 6:40

Part Two: The Rise And Fall (And Rise) of Arch-Grifter Jim Bakker

Behind the Bastards · 2020-05-07

I was Wrong by Jim Bakker · discussed · at 14:46

Part One: The Rise And Fall (And Rise) of Arch-Grifter Jim Bakker

Behind the Bastards · 2020-05-05

Move that Mountain by Jim Bakker · discussed · at 6:52
PTL by John Wigger · discussed · at 12:40
The Big Three Mountain-movers by Jim Bakker · discussed · at 51:38

Part Two: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About

Behind the Bastards · 2020-04-23

Das Capital Volume One by Karl Marx · discussed · at 7:40

Part One: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About

Behind the Bastards · 2020-04-21

The Battle of Blair Mountain by Robert Shogan · discussed · at 32:16

Part Two: Henry Morton Stanley: The Explorer Who Shot His Way Through Africa

Behind the Bastards · 2020-04-16

How I Found Livingstone by Henry Morton Stanley · discussed · at 29:08
Through the Dark Continent by Henry Morton Stanley · discussed · at 30:59
Stanley by Tim Jeal · discussed · at 1:00:01
The Imperial History Wars by Dane Kennedy · discussed · at 1:01:44

Part One: Henry Morton Stanley: The Explorer Who Shot His Way Through Africa

Behind the Bastards · 2020-04-14

King Leopold's ghost by Adam Hochschild · discussed · at 8:31

What We Learned From Ben Shapiro's Racist Novel

Behind the Bastards · 2020-04-09

True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro · discussed · at 5:17

The Priests of Plague

Behind the Bastards · 2020-04-07

The Great Mortality by John Kelly · discussed · at 19:55
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman · discussed · at 20:51
Pale Rider by Laura Spinney · discussed · at 49:28

Part Two: Narendra Modi, And India's Weird Nazi Obsession

Behind the Bastards · 2020-04-02

Exam Warriors by Narendra Modī · discussed · at 43:45

Part One: Narendra Modi, And India's Weird Nazi Obsession

Behind the Bastards · 2020-03-31

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler · discussed · at 18:17

The Survivor: A Magazine For Nerdy Terrorists

Behind the Bastards · 2020-03-26

The Survivor by Kurt Saxon · discussed · at 2:59
The Poor Man's James Bond by Kurt Saxon · discussed · at 3:15
Fireworks & explosives like Granddad used to make by Kurt Saxon · discussed · at 30:54

The Worst Grifters of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Behind the Bastards · 2020-03-24

Coronavirus Disease by U. S. Dep. of Health & Human Services · discussed · at 39:55
Protection of human subjects by United States. Department of Health and Human Services. · discussed · at 39:55
Wuhan Coronavirus by Tyler J Morrison · critiqued · at 40:38

Soldier of Fortune: The Deadliest Magazine Ever (with David X. Cohen)

Behind the Bastards · 2020-03-20

150 Questions for a Guerrilla by Alberto Bayo · discussed · at 13:08

Soldier of Fortune: The Deadliest Magazine Ever (with Billy Wayne Davis)

Behind the Bastards · 2020-03-19

150 Questions for a Guerrilla by Alberto Bayo · discussed · at 15:11

How The Internet Spawned A Baby-Killing Cult

Behind the Bastards · 2020-03-17

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler · discussed · at 53:45

How L. Ron Hubbard Made An Antichrist Using Sex Magic

Behind the Bastards · 2020-03-12

Bare-faced Messiah by Russell Miller · discussed · at 27:57

How Exxon, Chevron and their buddies killed the world

Behind the Bastards · 2020-03-10

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson · discussed · at 12:14
Crisis in Our Cities by Murray Bookchin · discussed · at 14:23

Part Two: The Founding Father of Fake Cancer Cures

Behind the Bastards · 2020-03-05

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis · discussed · at 8:54
The Medical Messiahs by James Harvey Young · discussed · at 18:57

Part One: The Founding Father of Fake Cancer Cures

Behind the Bastards · 2020-03-03

You Don't Have to Die by Gerald Robertson · discussed · at 14:44
The Medical Messiahs by James Harvey Young · discussed · at 25:03

Part Two: The Dumbest Colonizer in History

Behind the Bastards · 2020-02-27

The filibusters by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne · discussed · at 5:46
The Financier by Theodore Dreiser · discussed · at 5:46
The War in Nicaragua by William Walker · discussed · at 1:10:02
Tycoon's War by Stephen Dando-Collins · critiqued · at 1:14:08

Part One: The Dumbest Colonizer in History

Behind the Bastards · 2020-02-25

William Walker's Wars by Scott Martelle · discussed · at 22:13
The filibusters by C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne · discussed · at 44:20
The Financier by Theodore Dreiser · discussed · at 44:20

Part Two: Basil Zaharoff: The Man Who Sold World War One

Behind the Bastards · 2020-02-20

Man of Arms by Anthony Allfrey · discussed · at 15:51

Part One: Basil Zaharoff: The Man Who Sold World War One

Behind the Bastards · 2020-02-18

Man of Arms by Anthony Allfrey · discussed · at 21:08
Men of Wealth by John T. Flynn · discussed · at 1:05:58

Part Two: Savitri Devi: The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion

Behind the Bastards · 2020-02-13

Gold in the Furnace by Savitri Devi · discussed · at 5:51
Hitler's Priestess by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke · discussed · at 12:14
Long-Whiskers and the Two-legged Goddess, Or, The True Story of a "most Objectionable Nazi" And... Half-a-dozen Cats by Savitri Devi · discussed · at 17:30
The Lightning and the Sun by Savitri Devi · discussed · at 19:13
Impeachment of Man by Savitri Devi · discussed · at 26:44
Young Hitler by August Kubizek · critiqued · at 32:40

Part One: Savitri Devi: The Woman Who Turned Nazism into a Religion

Behind the Bastards · 2020-02-11

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler · discussed · at 8:28
Hitler's Priestess by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke · discussed · at 36:09
The Iliad by Homer · discussed · at 58:04
A warning to the Hindus by Savitri Devi · discussed · at 1:26:33

The Childhood of Joseph Stalin

Behind the Bastards · 2020-02-06

Stalin by Stephen Kotkin · discussed · at 23:08
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin · discussed · at 53:35

How Hobby Lobby Funded Terrorism And Tried To Destroy Democracy

Behind the Bastards · 2020-02-04

Bible by Bible · discussed · at 49:38

Part Two: The Bastards Who Killed the Black Panthers

Behind the Bastards · 2020-01-30

Black against Empire by Joshua Bloom · discussed · at 12:09

Part One: The Bastards Who Killed the Black Panthers

Behind the Bastards · 2020-01-28

Black against Empire by Joshua Bloom · recommended · at 13:31

Part Two: The Man Who Invented Fascism

Behind the Bastards · 2020-01-23

The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett · recommended · at 4:12
Notturno by Gabriele D'Annunzio · discussed · at 14:52

Part One: The Man Who Invented Fascism

Behind the Bastards · 2020-01-21

The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett · discussed · at 14:25
Thomas Carlyle's On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle · discussed · at 39:40

The Bastard Who Executed The Top Nazis

Behind the Bastards · 2020-01-07

American Hangman by Tobin T. Buhk · discussed · at 40:28
The Nazi Hunters by Andrew Nagorski · discussed · at 58:53

Other mentions in 2020 (23: passing, ad reads, own books)