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Robert Evans’s book recommendations in 2021

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It Could Happen Here Weekly 15

Behind the Bastards · 2021-12-31

The Next Shift by Gabriel Winant · discussed · at 39:18
Unauthorized Bread by Cory Doctorow · discussed · at 4:48:05

Part One: Christmas non-Bastard: The Tupamaros of Uruguay

Behind the Bastards · 2021-12-21

Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano · discussed · at 50:49

Part Two: Jeff Bezos and the Birth of Amazon

Behind the Bastards · 2021-12-18

The Everything Store by Brad Stone · discussed · at 23:35
Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone · discussed · at 38:10

Part One: Jeff Bezos and the Birth of Amazon

Behind the Bastards · 2021-12-18

The Everything Store by Brad Stone · discussed · at 19:05
One Click by Richard L. Brandt · discussed · at 38:18

It Could Happen Here Weekly 14

Behind the Bastards · 2021-12-18

Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow · discussed · at 1:54:43
Attack Surface by Cory Doctorow · discussed · at 2:13:22

It Could Happen Here Weekly 13

Behind the Bastards · 2021-12-11

An Inquiry Into the Principles of the Good Society by Walter Lippmann · discussed · at 2:02:54
The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek · discussed · at 2:08:50

Part Two: Let's Talk About Cryptocurrency

Behind the Bastards · 2021-12-09

Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard · recommended · at 32:46

Part One: Let's Talk About Cryptocurrency

Behind the Bastards · 2021-12-07

Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard · discussed · at 11:03

Part Two: The Not-At-All-Sad History of Libertarian Sea Nations

Behind the Bastards · 2021-12-02

The Ultimate Rush by Joe Quirk · discussed · at 35:34
Seasteading by Joe Quirk · discussed · at 38:56
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow · recommended · at 1:42:27

Part One: The Not-At-All-Sad History of Libertarian Sea Nations

Behind the Bastards · 2021-11-30

Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein · discussed · at 11:20
The moon is a harsh mistress by Robert A. Heinlein · discussed · at 13:35
Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein · discussed · at 38:31

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Behind the Bastards · 2021-11-27

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber · discussed · at 1:09:35
Tribe by Sebastian Junger · discussed · at 1:13:43
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber · discussed · at 1:17:19

The Ballad of Eel Horse

Behind the Bastards · 2021-11-23

Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse · discussed · at 1:03:41
WAR STORIES by Gary Kulik · discussed · at 1:03:41

It Could Happen Here Weekly 10

Behind the Bastards · 2021-11-20

The coal question by William Stanley Jevons, Alfred William Flux · discussed · at 2:30:07
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber · recommended · at 3:33:55

It Could Happen Here Weekly 10

Behind the Bastards · 2021-11-20

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson · discussed · at 21:46
Black reconstruction by W. E. B. Du Bois · discussed · at 1:46:52
The coal question by William Stanley Jevons, Alfred William Flux · discussed · at 2:23:03
The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber · recommended · at 3:25:12

Part Two: How the First Fitness Influencer Doomed Us All

Behind the Bastards · 2021-11-11

Mr. America by Mark Adams · discussed · at 31:39

Part One: How the First Fitness Influencer Doomed Us All

Behind the Bastards · 2021-11-09

Mr. America by Mark Adams · discussed · at 19:40
How to Get Strong and how to Stay So by William Blaikie · discussed · at 54:30
The Athlete's Conquest by Bernarr Macfadden · discussed · at 1:09:54
Marriage a Lifelong Honeymoon by Bernarr Macfadden · discussed · at 1:31:11

Part Two: The Boy Scouts are a Bastard

Behind the Bastards · 2021-11-04

Scout's Honor by Patrick Boyle · discussed · at 26:13

Part One: Robert Baden-Powell: Founder Of The Boy Scouts

Behind the Bastards · 2021-11-02

Scout's Honor by Patrick Boyle · discussed · at 12:33
Aids To Scouting by Robert Baden-Powell · discussed · at 43:57
Aids to scouting for NCOs and men by Robert Baden-Powell · discussed · at 43:57
The birch bark roll of woodcraft by Ernest Thompson Seton · discussed · at 46:37
Scouting for Boys by Robert Baden-Powell · discussed · at 51:50
Rovering to Success by Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell · discussed · at 1:11:23

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Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-30

Good Bread Is Back by Steven L. Kaplan · discussed · at 46:30

Part Two: The Nazi Pedophile Cult Leader who Murdered Santa (With Paul F. Tompkins)

Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-28

Bible by Bible · discussed · at 12:38

ICHH: That Time the CIA dosed a French Town with Acid: Spooky Week #1

Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-25

Good Bread Is Back by Steven L. Kaplan · discussed · at 1:01:21

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Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-23

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin · recommended · at 1:08:19
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow · recommended · at 1:21:31
Setting sights by Scott Crow · recommended · at 3:04:46

It Could Happen Here Weekly 6

Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-23

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow · recommended · at 1:30:12

Ben Shapiro Wrote A Book About Sex

Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-21

Porn Generation by Ben Shapiro · discussed · at 6:11
I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe · discussed · at 35:03
Ready Or Not by Kay S. Hymowitz · discussed · at 53:03

Part Two: The Ballad of Wally George

Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-14

Lord of the Flies by William Golding · discussed · at 53:27

Part One Joe Pyne: The Man Who Invented Right Wing Talk Radio

Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-12

THE TURNER DIARIES by ANDREW MACDONALD · discussed · at 8:58

It Could Happen Here Weekly 4

Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-09

Earthbound Farmer's Almanac by Unknown · discussed · at 3:03

Part Two: Amway: The Gravedigger of Democracy

Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-07

Charismatic Capitalism by Nicole Woolsey Biggart · discussed · at 1:05:24

Part One: Amway: The Gravedigger of Democracy

Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-05

Cultish by Amanda Montell · discussed · at 27:56
Believe by Richard devos · discussed · at 46:50

It Could Happen Here Weekly 3

Behind the Bastards · 2021-10-02

Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti · recommended · at 1:52:07

Reading About Nesara

Behind the Bastards · 2021-09-30

The Violin's Secret by Scott F. Young · critiqued · at 9:31

The Nesara Cult and Qanon's Origins

Behind the Bastards · 2021-09-28

NESARA and The Mark of The Beast by Scott Young · discussed · at 1:32:48

It Could Happen Here Weekly 2

Behind the Bastards · 2021-09-25

Radicalized by Cory Doctorow · discussed · at 1:50:15

Part Two: The Slavery Loving Fascist who Built Modern Japan

Behind the Bastards · 2021-09-22

Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire by Paul H. Kratoska · discussed · at 3:33
Chinese Comfort Women by Peipei Qiu · discussed · at 9:57

Part Two: The Italian Invasions of Ethiopia

Behind the Bastards · 2021-09-16

Days of Emperor and Clown by James Dugan · discussed · at 1:21:15

Let's Talk About Thalidomide

Behind the Bastards · 2021-08-31

Silent Shock by Michael Magazanik · discussed · at 31:50

Part Two: Hitler's Drug Problem

Behind the Bastards · 2021-08-26

Blitzed by Norman Ohler · discussed · at 16:14

Part One: Hitler's Drug Problem

Behind the Bastards · 2021-08-24

Blitzed by Norman Ohler · discussed · at 7:02
Hitler by Fredrick Carl Redlich · discussed · at 50:27

Part Two: Joe Arpaio: America's Favorite Concentration Camp Operator

Behind the Bastards · 2021-08-19

The Way of the Shadow Wolves by Steven Seagal · critiqued · at 1:11:07

Part One: Joe Arpaio: America's Favorite Concentration Camp Operator

Behind the Bastards · 2021-08-17

Driving While Brown by Terry Greene Sterling · discussed · at 12:49
Reign of Terror by Spencer Ackerman · recommended · at 1:25:41

Part Two: The Cult Behind Josh Duggar

Behind the Bastards · 2021-08-05

A Love That Multiplies by Michelle Duggar · discussed · at 20:10
Growing Up Duggar by Jana Duggar · discussed · at 43:27

Part One: The Cult Behind Josh Duggar

Behind the Bastards · 2021-08-03

Left Behind by Tim LaHaye · discussed · at 16:12
To train up a child by Michael Pearl · discussed · at 42:11
Created to Be His Help Meet by Debi Pearl · discussed · at 1:10:13

Part Two: Elan School: The Worst 'Troubled Teen' Facility

Behind the Bastards · 2021-07-29

Duck in a Raincoat by Maura E. Curley · discussed · at 15:46

Part One: Elan School: The Worst 'Troubled Teen' Facility

Behind the Bastards · 2021-07-27

Duck in a Raincoat by Maura E. Curley · discussed · at 29:27

After the Revolution: Chapters Twenty One, Twenty Two, and Twenty Three

Behind the Bastards · 2021-07-24

The Book of John by Lin Johnson · discussed · at 5:54
Bible by Bible · discussed · at 6:10

Steven Seagal Wrote a Book (We Read It)

Behind the Bastards · 2021-07-23

True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro · discussed · at 33:06

After the Revolution: Chapters Eighteen, Nineteen, and Twenty

Behind the Bastards · 2021-07-17

Bible by Bible · discussed · at 42:07

Part One: Pappa Doc and Baby Doc: Dictators of Haiti

Behind the Bastards · 2021-07-13

Haiti by Elizabeth Abbott · discussed · at 26:07

After the Revolution: Chapters Fifteen, Sixteen, and Seventeen

Behind the Bastards · 2021-07-10

1 Samuel by Darren Hibbs · discussed · at 1:08:54

Part Two: The Young, Evil God of Death: Reinhard Heydrich

Behind the Bastards · 2021-07-08

Hitler's Hangman by Robert Gerwarth · recommended · at 36:59

Part One: The Young, Evil God of Death: Reinhard Heydrich

Behind the Bastards · 2021-07-06

Hitler's Hangman by Robert Gerwarth · discussed · at 23:07
Nazi Wives by James Wyllie · discussed · at 1:00:23

After the Revolution: Chapters Nine, Ten, & Eleven

Behind the Bastards · 2021-06-26

Romans by John D. Harvey · discussed · at 11:00

Part Two: Synanon: The Drug Rehab Program That Built Its Own Army

Behind the Bastards · 2021-06-24

Hollywood Park by Mikel Jollett · discussed · at 31:52

Part One: Synanon: The Drug Rehab Program That Built Its Own Army

Behind the Bastards · 2021-06-22

The Outline of History by H. G. Wells · discussed · at 22:15

Chapters Six, Seven, & Eight

Behind the Bastards · 2021-06-19

Bible by Bible · discussed · at 24:49
The Book of Jonah by Unknown · discussed · at 24:55

Part Two: The Ballad of Bill Gates

Behind the Bastards · 2021-06-17

The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff · discussed · at 13:40
Reign of Error by Diane Ravitch · discussed · at 42:05
The Microsoft File by Wendy Goldman Rohm · discussed · at 52:43

Ben Shapiro's Godawful Book: The Final Episode

Behind the Bastards · 2021-06-03

True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro · critiqued · at 3:01

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Behind the Bastards · 2021-06-01

Triangle by David Von Drehle · discussed · at 33:33

Part Two: What the Netanyahu Family Did To Palestine

Behind the Bastards · 2021-05-27

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand · discussed · at 6:25
Bibi by Anshel Pfeffer · discussed · at 12:44

Part One: What the Netanyahu Family Did To Palestine

Behind the Bastards · 2021-05-25

Polarized and Demobilized by Dana El Kurd · recommended · at 1:20:46
The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Authoritarianism in the Arab World by Dana El Kurd · recommended · at 1:20:46

Part Three: How The Dulles Brothers Created The CIA And Destroyed Everything Else

Behind the Bastards · 2021-05-20

Problems of Leninism by Joseph Stalin · discussed · at 19:17
The devil's chessboard by David Talbot · discussed · at 41:10
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer · discussed · at 1:34:18

Part Two: How The Dulles Brothers Created The CIA And Destroyed Everything Else

Behind the Bastards · 2021-05-19

The devil's chessboard by David Talbot · discussed · at 14:28
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler · discussed · at 28:46

Part One: How The Dulles Brothers Created The CIA And Destroyed Everything Else

Behind the Bastards · 2021-05-18

The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer · discussed · at 21:24
The devil's chessboard by David Talbot · discussed · at 37:24
Kim by Rudyard Kipling · discussed · at 44:29

Part Two: Dr. Phil Is Even Worse Than You Think And You Probably Think He Sucks

Behind the Bastards · 2021-05-13

Life Strategies by Dr. Phil McGraw · critiqued · at 8:59
Self Matters by Phil McGraw · critiqued · at 9:27
The Ultimate Weight Solution by Phil McGraw · critiqued · at 9:27

Part Two: Excited Delirium: How Cops Invented A Disease

Behind the Bastards · 2021-05-06

Tribe by Sebastian Junger · discussed · at 18:48

Part One: Excited Delirium: How Cops Invented A Disease

Behind the Bastards · 2021-05-04

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders by American Psychiatric Association · discussed · at 23:02

Part Two: The (Male) Doctor Who Redesigned Vaginas

Behind the Bastards · 2021-04-29

Surgery of Love by James C [VNV] Burt · discussed · at 4:27
The Love Surgeon by Sarah B. Rodriguez · discussed · at 4:48
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Book Collective · discussed · at 45:01

Part One: The (Male) Doctor Who Redesigned Vaginas

Behind the Bastards · 2021-04-27

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male by Alfred Charles Kinsey · discussed · at 16:52
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, by the Staff of the Institute for Sex Research, Indiana University : Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, Paul H. Gebhard,... by Alfred Charles Kinsey · discussed · at 17:02
The Love Surgeon by Sarah B. Rodriguez · discussed · at 32:35
Human sexual response by William H. Masters · discussed · at 34:53
How to Get More Out of Sex by David Reuben · critiqued · at 59:36
Surgery of Love by James C [VNV] Burt · discussed · at 1:04:29

Part Two: The Conspiracy to Begin All Conspiracies

Behind the Bastards · 2021-04-15

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Victor, E Marsden · discussed · at 3:47
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler · discussed · at 33:24

Part One: The Conspiracy to Begin All Conspiracies

Behind the Bastards · 2021-04-13

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Victor, E Marsden · discussed · at 4:50
The Appeal by Janice Hallett · discussed · at 41:15
On the Jewish Question by Karl Marx · discussed · at 47:19
The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu by Maurice Joly · discussed · at 1:19:31

Part Two: Kellogg: The Great American Cum Doctor

Behind the Bastards · 2021-04-08

The Ladies Guide in Health and Disease by John Harvey Kellogg · discussed · at 37:10
The Uses of Water in Health and Disease by J. H. Kellogg · discussed · at 37:10
Lectures on the Diseases of Women by Charles West · discussed · at 53:27
Kellogg's Six-hour Day by Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt · discussed · at 1:01:25

Part One: Kellogg: The Great American Cum Doctor

Behind the Bastards · 2021-04-06

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and the Religion of Biologic Living by Brian C. Wilson · discussed · at 24:06

Part One: The King of Con Artists, Victor Lustig

Behind the Bastards · 2021-03-30

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo · discussed · at 1:17:58

Part Two: The Family That Stole Malaysia

Behind the Bastards · 2021-03-25

The White Rajah by Tom Williams · discussed · at 43:18
King Solomon's Mines by Henry Rider Haggard · discussed · at 1:23:35

Part One: The Family That Stole Malaysia

Behind the Bastards · 2021-03-23

White Rajah by Nigel Barley · discussed · at 11:34
The White Rajahs of Sarawak by Robert Payne · discussed · at 15:48

Part Two: RAM- Lifestyle Fascism

Behind the Bastards · 2021-03-18

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler · discussed · at 34:44

Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

Behind the Bastards · 2021-03-12

See, I Told You So by Rush H. Limbaugh · discussed · at 1:20:51

Part One: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

Behind the Bastards · 2021-03-09

Rush Limbaugh by Zev Chafets · discussed · at 12:31
The Rush Limbaugh Story by Paul D. Colford · discussed · at 25:34
The Iliad by Homer · discussed · at 1:19:36
The Odyssey by Homer · discussed · at 1:19:36

Part Two: How The U.S.A. Murdered Panama with Chelsea Manning

Behind the Bastards · 2021-03-04

Emperors in the Jungle by John Lindsay-Poland · discussed · at 8:51

Part One: How The U.S.A. Murdered Panama with Chelsea Manning

Behind the Bastards · 2021-03-04

Emperors in the Jungle by John Lindsay-Poland · discussed · at 14:48

Part One: The Birth of the Manosphere

Behind the Bastards · 2021-02-23

Sigma Male by Mario White · discussed · at 6:37
The Myth of Male Power by Warren Farrell · discussed · at 18:17
It Came from Something Awful by Dale Beran · discussed · at 24:47
12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson · discussed · at 1:03:35
The Wolf by L. David Mech · discussed · at 1:17:08

Part Two: The Man Who Invented The Military-Industrial Complex

Behind the Bastards · 2021-02-18

The Arms of Krupp by William Manchester · discussed · at 14:37

Part One: The Man Who Invented The Military-Industrial Complex

Behind the Bastards · 2021-02-16

The Arms of Krupp by William Manchester · recommended · at 10:07

Ben Shapiro's Book: Part Whatever, The Journey Refuses to End

Behind the Bastards · 2021-02-09

True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro · critiqued · at 3:38

Behind the Insurrections - The Business Plot: When Rich Fascists Almost Took Over America

Behind the Bastards · 2021-02-04

The Glory and the Dream by William Manchester · discussed · at 18:17
War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler · discussed · at 1:13:09

Behind the Insurrections - The (French) Capitol Insurrection

Behind the Bastards · 2021-02-02

The Invention of the White Race by Theodore W. Allen · discussed · at 14:46
Nationalism in France by Brian Jenkins · discussed · at 41:44
France and Fascism by Brian Jenkins · discussed · at 41:44

Behind the Insurrections - How Fascism Won The Spanish Civil War, Part 2

Behind the Bastards · 2021-01-28

Fascism in Spain, 1923–1977 by Stanley G. Payne · discussed · at 11:23
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell · discussed · at 1:30:29

Behind the Insurrections - The Birth of Spanish Fascism, Part 1

Behind the Bastards · 2021-01-26

The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert O. Paxton · discussed · at 9:35
Fascism in Spain, 1923–1977 by Stanley G. Payne · discussed · at 43:12

Behind the Insurrections - Hitler's Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Part 2

Behind the Bastards · 2021-01-21

The Trial of Adolf Hitler by Philippe Van Rjndt · discussed · at 6:30
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler · discussed · at 40:24

Behind the Insurrections - Hitler's Munich Beer Hall Putsch, Part 1

Behind the Bastards · 2021-01-19

The Trial of Adolf Hitler by David King · discussed · at 57:31

Let's Take A Break With Ben Shapiro's Terrible Book

Behind the Bastards · 2021-01-12

True Allegiance by Ben Shapiro · discussed · at 3:15

Part Two: The Population Control Movement

Behind the Bastards · 2021-01-07

Fatal Misconception by Matthew Connelly · recommended · at 1:04:21
The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich · discussed · at 1:08:56

Other mentions in 2021 (87: passing, ad reads, own books)