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Robert Evans’s book recommendations in 2023

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CZM Rewind: Kissinger Parts 4-6

Behind the Bastards · 2023-12-28

The Blood telegram by Gary J. Bass · discussed · at 29:55
Kissinger by Walter Isaacson · discussed · at 1:30:52
Kissinger by Niall Ferguson · discussed · at 1:40:10
Years of Renewal by Henry Kissinger · discussed · at 3:32:04
The trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens · discussed · at 3:55:47
Kissinger's shadow by Greg Grandin · recommended · at 4:00:54

CZM Rewind: Kissinger Parts 1-3

Behind the Bastards · 2023-12-26

Kissinger by Niall Ferguson · discussed · at 18:02
Henry Kissinger and American Power by Thomas A. Schwartz · discussed · at 29:38
The Power "to Coin" Money by Thomas Frederick Wilson · discussed · at 29:38
Kissinger's shadow by Greg Grandin · discussed · at 1:00:46
The Meaning of History by Henry Kissinger · discussed · at 1:01:30
The Decline of the West by Oswald Spengler, Arthur Helps, Charles Francis Atkinson · discussed · at 1:08:21
Nuclear weapons and foreign policy by Henry Kissinger · discussed · at 1:34:52
The Necessity for Choice by Henry A. Kissinger · discussed · at 1:50:11
The trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens · discussed · at 2:18:09
The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell · critiqued · at 4:09:58

Part One: Christmas Hero Episode: Aaron Swartz

Behind the Bastards · 2023-12-19

Code by Lawrence Lessig · discussed · at 35:34

Part Two: William Bailey: The Gwyneth Paltrow of Radiation

Behind the Bastards · 2023-12-14

Quackery by Lydia Kang · discussed · at 5:58
The radium girls by Kate Moore · recommended · at 20:25
A drink with Shane MacGowan by Shane MacGowan · recommended · at 1:00:27

Part One: William Bailey: The Gwyneth Paltrow of Radiation

Behind the Bastards · 2023-12-12

Quackery by Lydia Kang · discussed · at 58:43

It Could Happen Here Weekly 110

Behind the Bastards · 2023-12-09

Don't Call it a Cult by Sarah Berman · discussed · at 3:40

Part Two: The Last Sam Bankman-Fried Episodes (secretly about Michael Lewis)

Behind the Bastards · 2023-12-07

The big short by Michael Lewis · discussed · at 1:01
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis · discussed · at 10:25
Number Go Up by Zeke Faux · recommended · at 1:01:56

Part One: The Last Sam Bankman-Fried Episodes (secretly about Michael Lewis)

Behind the Bastards · 2023-12-05

The big short by Michael Lewis · discussed · at 4:12
Moneyball by Michael Lewis · discussed · at 5:42
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis · discussed · at 26:44
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis · discussed · at 37:12
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis · discussed · at 48:48
Going Infinite by Michael Lewis · discussed · at 53:17

Part Two: The Holy Rollers Sex Cult

Behind the Bastards · 2023-11-30

Holy rollers by ReShonda Tate Billingsley · discussed · at 5:41

Part One: The Holy Rollers Sex Cult

Behind the Bastards · 2023-11-28

In darkest England by William Booth · discussed · at 15:35
In Darkest England and the Way Out by William Booth · discussed · at 15:35
Holy Rollers by T- McCracken · discussed · at 23:40

CZM Rewind: Part Two: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

Behind the Bastards · 2023-11-28

King Leopold's ghost by Adam Hochschild · recommended · at 24:41

CZM Rewind: Part Two: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard

Behind the Bastards · 2023-11-23

King Leopold's ghost by Adam Hochschild · recommended · at 28:47

CZM Rewind: Part One: King Leopold II: The First Modern Bastard

Behind the Bastards · 2023-11-21

Leopold II., King of Belgium, Sovereign of the Congo Free State, Vindicated ... by A. A. Notebaert · discussed · at 7:12
King Leopold's ghost by Adam Hochschild · discussed · at 8:04
Java by James William Bayley Money · discussed · at 15:47

Part Two: Lord Aspinall: The Gambling King of London

Behind the Bastards · 2023-11-16

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler · discussed · at 20:44
The trap by Goldsmith, James Sir · discussed · at 27:55
The Gamblers by John Pearson · discussed · at 33:36
Grey Wolf by Louise Penny · discussed · at 42:16

Part One: Lord Aspinall: The Gambling King of London

Behind the Bastards · 2023-11-14

The passion of John Aspinall by Brian Masters · discussed · at 6:45
The Gamblers by John Pearson · discussed · at 8:50
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling · discussed · at 18:15
Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard · discussed · at 38:55

It Could Happen Here Weekly 106

Behind the Bastards · 2023-11-11

Fight Like Hell by Kim Kelly · discussed · at 1:36:03

Part One: The Surprising Evil of 1950s Men's Adventure Magazines

Behind the Bastards · 2023-11-07

The Godfather by Mario Puzo · discussed · at 6:08
The Outsiders by S. E Hinton · discussed · at 31:36

CZM Rewind: The British Super-Soldier Who Killed A Nation

Behind the Bastards · 2023-11-02

The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden · discussed · at 1:03:32

The True Story of Dracula

Behind the Bastards · 2023-10-31

Dracula by Bram Stoker, Jack Kelly · discussed · at 4:12
Of Saints and Sinners. Native Resistance to Ottoman Expansion in Southeastern Europe, 1443-1481: George Castriota Scanderberg and Vlad III Dracula by Kurt William Treptow · discussed · at 35:49
The Vampire Archives by Otto Penzler · discussed · at 1:33:33
An appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans by Lydia Maria Child · discussed · at 1:35:59

Part Two:The Deadliest Workplace Disaster in U.S. History

Behind the Bastards · 2023-10-26

Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser · discussed · at 53:54

Part Six: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate

Behind the Bastards · 2023-10-19

Out of control by G. Gordon Liddy · discussed · at 2:45

Part Five: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate

Behind the Bastards · 2023-10-17

Will by G. Gordon Liddy · discussed · at 59:28

Part Three: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate

Behind the Bastards · 2023-10-10

Will by G. Gordon Liddy · discussed · at 8:25
Devil's Guard by George Robert Elford · discussed · at 25:55

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

Behind the Bastards · 2023-10-05

Good Bread Is Back by Steven L. Kaplan · discussed · at 44:16

Part One: G. Gordon Liddy: The Fascist Behind Watergate

Behind the Bastards · 2023-10-03

King Richard by Michael Dobbs · discussed · at 9:06

Part Two: God's Debris, by Scott Adams (with Matt Lieb)

Behind the Bastards · 2023-09-21

God's debris by Scott Adams · discussed · at 10:20
The religion war by Scott Adams · discussed · at 10:21

Part One: The Religion War, by Scott Adams (with Matt Lieb)

Behind the Bastards · 2023-09-19

The Art of War by Sun Tzu · discussed · at 3:33
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott · discussed · at 6:50
Win bigly by Scott Adams · critiqued · at 51:41

Part Two: Wim Hof's Surprisingly Deadly Story

Behind the Bastards · 2023-09-14

The way of the iceman by Wim Hof · discussed · at 2:43
What doesn't kill us by Scott Carney · discussed · at 17:54
Becoming the Iceman by Wim Hof · discussed · at 44:04

Part One: Wim Hof's Surprisingly Deadly Story

Behind the Bastards · 2023-09-12

The way of the iceman by Wim Hof · discussed · at 9:23

It Could Happen Here Weekly 99

Behind the Bastards · 2023-09-09

Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway · discussed · at 1:11:33

Part One: The 12 Tribes: The Worst Cult You've Never Heard Of

Behind the Bastards · 2023-09-05

The late great planet earth by Hal Lindsey · discussed · at 18:12
To train up a child by Michael Pearl · discussed · at 53:52

Part Two: Behind the Swastika

Behind the Bastards · 2023-08-31

Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson · discussed · at 37:37
The Buddhist Swastika and Hitler's Cross by T. K. Nakagaki · discussed · at 43:38
The Swastika by Steven Heller · recommended · at 52:14

Part Two: Ron DeSantis: Florida Man

Behind the Bastards · 2023-08-24

Dreams From Our Founding Fathers by Ron DeSantis · discussed · at 9:29
Trump: The Art of the Deal by Donald J. Trump · discussed · at 37:43

Part One: Ron DeSantis: Florida Man

Behind the Bastards · 2023-08-22

The science of hitting by Williams, Ted · discussed · at 18:26

It Could Happen Here Weekly 96

Behind the Bastards · 2023-08-19

Democracy - the God That Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe · discussed · at 56:37
Bronze Age Mindset by Bronze Pervert · discussed · at 1:01:55
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad · discussed · at 1:05:09

We Read The Dilbert Guy's Attempt to Make Trump into a Religion

Behind the Bastards · 2023-08-17

Win bigly by Scott Adams · discussed · at 2:04
The religion war by Scott Adams · critiqued · at 42:11

Part Two: Rafael Trujillo: The Most Brutal Dictator of the Americas

Behind the Bastards · 2023-08-10

The dictator's seduction by Lauren Hutchinson Derby · recommended · at 1:14:50

Part One: Rafael Trujillo: The Most Brutal Dictator of the Americas

Behind the Bastards · 2023-08-08

Trujillo: Little Caesar of the Caribbean by Germán E. Ornes · discussed · at 40:19

Part Two: Frank Lorenzo: The Man Who Ruined Air Travel

Behind the Bastards · 2023-08-03

Flying the line. by George E. Hopkins · discussed · at 25:11

Part One: Frank Lorenzo: The Man Who Ruined Air Travel

Behind the Bastards · 2023-08-01

Minion by John David Anderson · discussed · at 40:18

Part Two: Julius Streicher: The Other Hitler

Behind the Bastards · 2023-07-27

Julius Streicher by Randall Bytwerk · discussed · at 13:49

Part Two: Why Kidnapping Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere

Behind the Bastards · 2023-07-20

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer by Shaun Kimber · discussed · at 31:33

Part One: Why Kidnapping Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere

Behind the Bastards · 2023-07-18

Book of the Dead by Foy Scalf · discussed · at 41:24

Part Two: How The Dilbert Guy Lost His Mind

Behind the Bastards · 2023-07-13

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie · discussed · at 3:17
The confidence game by Maria Konnikova · discussed · at 8:18
The Art of War by Sun Tzu · discussed · at 8:57
The Peter Principle by Dr. Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull · discussed · at 12:50
The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams · discussed · at 18:02
The Dilbert future by Scott Adams · discussed · at 28:04
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams · discussed · at 1:01:40
The religion war by Scott Adams · discussed · at 1:06:35
God's debris by Scott Adams · discussed · at 1:06:35

Part One: How The Dilbert Guy Lost His Mind

Behind the Bastards · 2023-07-11

Win bigly by Scott Adams · discussed · at 27:15
The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace Wattles · discussed · at 49:41
The trouble with Dilbert by Norman Solomon · discussed · at 1:22:58
The Joy of Work by Scott Adams · discussed · at 1:25:45

Let's Read the Proud Boys Membership Manual

Behind the Bastards · 2023-07-06

Lifted to the Shoulders of a Mountain by Pat Turner Mitchell · discussed · at 8:12

Part One: Stockton Rush: Inventor of the Deathsub

Behind the Bastards · 2023-06-27

An address to the inhabitants of the British settlements in America, upon slave-keeping by Benjamin Rush · discussed · at 12:15
The autobiography of Benjamin Rush by Benjamin Rush · discussed · at 14:53
Blind Man's Bluff by Sherry Sontag · recommended · at 50:28

Part Two: AI Is Coming for Your Children

Behind the Bastards · 2023-06-22

It by Stephen King · discussed · at 12:01
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett · discussed · at 18:21
Ulysses by James Joyce · discussed · at 31:00
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy · discussed · at 32:57
Literature as exploration by Louise M. Rosenblatt · discussed · at 47:13

It Could Happen Here Weekly 86

Behind the Bastards · 2023-06-03

And Hell Followed With Her by David Neiwert · discussed · at 2:46:31

Part Six: Vince McMahon, History's Greatest Monster

Behind the Bastards · 2023-06-01

Sex, Lies, and Online Dating by Rachel Gibson · discussed · at 7:47
Headlock by Burl Barer · discussed · at 7:47

It Could Happen Here Weekly 85

Behind the Bastards · 2023-05-27

The Influence of Soros by Emily Tamkin · discussed · at 49:00
The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper · discussed · at 49:14
More money than God by Sebastian Mallaby · discussed · at 49:42
Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus · recommended · at 2:29:42

Part Three: Vince McMahon, History's Greatest Monster

Behind the Bastards · 2023-05-23

Death of the Territories by Tim Hornbaker · discussed · at 18:40

It Could Happen Here Weekly 84

Behind the Bastards · 2023-05-20

Border Patrol Nation by Todd Miller · recommended · at 2:23:43

Part One: Vince McMahon, History's Greatest Monster

Behind the Bastards · 2023-05-16

Sex, lies, and headlocks by Shaun Assael · discussed · at 44:07
Wrestling Babylon by Irv Muchnick · discussed · at 54:02

Part Two: Jack Welch Is Why You Got Laid Off

Behind the Bastards · 2023-05-11

The Man Who Broke Capitalism by David Gelles · discussed · at 14:12
JACK. STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT. by Jack Welch · recommended · at 1:31:07

Part One: Jack Welch Is Why You Got Laid Off

Behind the Bastards · 2023-05-09

The Man Who Broke Capitalism by David Gelles · discussed · at 15:35
JACK. STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT. by Jack Welch · discussed · at 20:37
In search of excellence by Thomas J. Peters · discussed · at 1:10:17
Future shock by Alvin Toffler · discussed · at 1:12:46

Andrew Tate's Terrible Book

Behind the Bastards · 2023-05-04

The Tate Bible by Andrew Tate · discussed · at 24:22

Part Two: The First American Yoga Cult Leader

Behind the Bastards · 2023-04-27

Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda Paramahansa · discussed · at 5:56
Muscle Control by Maxick · discussed · at 9:33

Part One: The First American Yoga Cult Leader

Behind the Bastards · 2023-04-25

The great oom by Robert Love · recommended · at 31:02

It Could Happen Here Weekly 80

Behind the Bastards · 2023-04-22

The Death Company by Cristoforo Baseggio · discussed · at 2:13:39
Let Them Look West by Marty Phillips · discussed · at 2:13:50

Part Three: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors

Behind the Bastards · 2023-04-18

Auschwitz. a Doctor's Eye-Witness Account. by Miklos Nyiszli · recommended · at 24:29

Part Two: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

Behind the Bastards · 2023-04-15

Das Capital Volume One by Karl Marx · discussed · at 4:58

Part Two: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors

Behind the Bastards · 2023-04-13

A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr · discussed · at 20:47
Mengele by Gerald L. Posner · discussed · at 25:51
Racial hygiene by Proctor, Robert · discussed · at 29:52
Mengele by David G. Marwell · discussed · at 36:16

Part One: Josef Mengele & The Nazi Doctors

Behind the Bastards · 2023-04-11

Racial hygiene by Proctor, Robert · discussed · at 54:09

The Priests of Plague | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

Behind the Bastards · 2023-04-09

The Great Mortality by John Kelly · discussed · at 17:21
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman · discussed · at 18:16
Pale Rider by Laura Spinney · discussed · at 43:45

Part Two: Coco Chanel: The Nazi Who Invented Fashion

Behind the Bastards · 2023-03-30

Aristocrats by Lawrence James · discussed · at 16:43
Sleeping With the Enemy by Hal Vaughan · discussed · at 55:45
The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins · discussed · at 57:03

Part One: Coco Chanel: The Nazi Who Invented Fashion

Behind the Bastards · 2023-03-28

Coco Chanel by Justine Picardie · discussed · at 7:40

Part Two: Alfredo Stroessner: The Luckiest Dictator

Behind the Bastards · 2023-03-23

Band Of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose · discussed · at 7:10

Part One: Alfredo Stroessner: The Luckiest Dictator

Behind the Bastards · 2023-03-21

Paraguay Under Stroessner by Paul H. Lewis · discussed · at 4:47

Part Six: A Complete History of the Illuminati

Behind the Bastards · 2023-03-09

The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea · discussed · at 17:22

Part Five: A Complete History of the Illuminati

Behind the Bastards · 2023-03-07

Cosmic Trigger by Robert Anton Wilson · discussed · at 9:44
Drawing down the Moon by Margot Adler · discussed · at 27:28
The prankster & the conspiracy by Adam Gorightly · recommended · at 32:26

It Could Happen Here Weekly 73

Behind the Bastards · 2023-03-04

The Turner Diaries by WILLIAM LUTHER. PIERCE · discussed · at 3:29:26

Part Four: A Complete History of the Illuminati

Behind the Bastards · 2023-03-02

Principia Discordia by MALACLYPSE THE YOUNGER · discussed · at 2:18
Max Stirner: The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner · discussed · at 3:50
The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner · discussed · at 3:50
The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter · discussed · at 5:51
Secret Societies and Subversive Movements by Nesta Webster · discussed · at 7:07
Adam Weishaupt, a human devil by Gerald B. Winrod · discussed · at 7:12
World of the John Birch Society by D. Mulloy · discussed · at 8:40
On the trail of the assassins by Jim Garrison · discussed · at 24:14
The KLF by John Higgs · discussed · at 26:23
Oswald by Kerry Thornley · discussed · at 38:57
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann · discussed · at 46:06

Part Three: A Complete History of the Illuminati

Behind the Bastards · 2023-02-28

The Illuminati by Jim Marrs · discussed · at 1:51
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand · discussed · at 40:32

Part Two: A Complete History of the Illuminati

Behind the Bastards · 2023-02-23

The Illuminati by Larry Burkett · discussed · at 12:38
The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter · recommended · at 54:18

Part One: A Complete History of the Illuminati

Behind the Bastards · 2023-02-21

First peoples by Colin G. Calloway · discussed · at 8:25

Part Two: Bobby Fischer: Chess Nazi

Behind the Bastards · 2023-02-16

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Victor, E Marsden · discussed · at 3:53
Nature's Eternal Religion by Ben Klassen · discussed · at 4:16
The secret world government by Cherep-Spiridovich, Arthur Count · discussed · at 5:48

Part Four: Nicolae Ceaușescu: The Dracula of Being A Dick

Behind the Bastards · 2023-02-09

Children of the Night by Paul Kenyon · discussed · at 59:38

Part Three: Nicolae Ceaușescu: The Dracula of Being A Dick

Behind the Bastards · 2023-02-07

Children of the Night by Paul Kenyon · discussed · at 57:49

Part One: Nicolae Ceaușescu: The Dracula of Being A Dick

Behind the Bastards · 2023-01-31

Children of the Night by Paul Kenyon · discussed · at 16:36

Part Four: The Andrew Tate Story

Behind the Bastards · 2023-01-26

Iron John, a Book About Men by Robert Bly · discussed · at 17:23

Part Three: The Andrew Tate Story

Behind the Bastards · 2023-01-24

Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus · recommended · at 58:09

Part Two: The Andrew Tate Story

Behind the Bastards · 2023-01-19

Life by Unknown · discussed · at 9:32
The Game by George Howe Colt · discussed · at 9:32

Part One: Andrew Tate, and the Mythopoetic Men's Movement

Behind the Bastards · 2023-01-17

Iron John, a Book About Men by Robert Bly · discussed · at 22:21
Iron John by Robert Bly · discussed · at 31:52
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore · discussed · at 54:20

Part Two: We Watch More of Jordan Peterson's New Show

Behind the Bastards · 2023-01-05

The Boy Crisis by Warren Farrell, John Gray · discussed · at 10:27
A Billion Wicked Thoughts by Ogi Ogas · discussed · at 39:50
Don't Trust Your Gut by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz · discussed · at 39:57
50 Shades of Gray by Mxj Press · discussed · at 40:23

Part One: We Watch More of Jordan Peterson's New Show

Behind the Bastards · 2023-01-03

Solitary Sex by Thomas Walter Laqueur · discussed · at 13:23
The Legend of Candy Claws by Aurelio Voltaire, Shamine King · discussed · at 40:20

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