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Every book Ryan Grim recommended on podcasts
Ryan Grim’s most recommended books
- Black Reconstruction in America by W. E. B. Du Bois
- End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein
- Obsolete by Garrison Lovely
- The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean
- Feminism against Progress by Mary Harrington
- If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer
- All the Devils Are Here by Bethany McLean
- Billion Dollar Whale by Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
- Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room by N. Hawkins
- Profits of War by Ari Ben-Menashe
Ryan Grim recommended and discussed several books across various episodes of Breaking Points. He praised Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor's End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World as an excellent book while welcoming the co-authors onto the show. Grim also featured Garrison Lovely as a guest, recommending his upcoming book, Obsolete, and encouraging listeners to pre-order it. For a holiday book recommendation, Grim suggested Mary Harrington's Feminism against Progress while discussing historical perspectives on women and home life. Additionally, he mentioned a collection of poetry and prose titled If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer, encouraging the audience to purchase it to support the author's surviving family. Later, while interviewing Bethany McLean, Grim referenced her seminal works co-authored with Peter Elkind and Joe Nocera, namely The Smartest Guys in the Room and All the Devils Are Here, using her background as an author to establish her authority on financial engineering and modern economic trends.
Books recommended by Ryan Grim
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Black Reconstruction in America
Black Reconstruction in America by W.
Discussed“In his 1935 book, Black Reconstruction in America, Du Bois famously argued that a key reason why the Confederacy collapsed and the institution of slavery with it was because when Union soldiers arrived in the South, Black Americans, as Du Bois put it, left the plantations and led a general strike.”
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End Times Fascism
End Times Fascism by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor explores how far-right fringe ideologies and authoritarian tendencies manifest among the most powerful figures in contemporary government and corporate leadership.
Recommended“And for our purposes this morning, they are also co-authors of the new book, End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World. Excellent book. I am almost all the way through it, and it does not disappoint.”
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Obsolete
Obsolete by Garrison Lovely is a book that examines the intersection of technology and labor, focusing specifically on the efforts to replace human workers with artificial intelligence.
Recommended“Garrison Lovely, the author of the new book, which is out in a couple of weeks, Obsolete is joining us now to discuss that.”
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The Smartest Guys in the Room
The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind is an investigative book detailing the rise and corporate collapse of Enron.
Discussed“Oh, she wrote the Enron book, right? Oh, the Enron book. I'm sorry, that's what it was, Enron, and is asking are data centers the next big short or are they the next Enron?”
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Feminism against Progress
Feminism against Progress by Mary Harrington is a critical analysis arguing that the sexual revolution and modern progressive feminism have ultimately harmed women by dismantling traditional family structures and reducing human value to economic productivity.
Recommended“It's a good Christmas book recommendation. Feminism against progress by Mary Harrington. She goes into some of this.”
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If I Must Die
If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer is a posthumously published collection of poetry and prose by the late Palestinian writer, featuring works that deeply resonate with themes of resilience, loss, and familial love.
Recommended“where she encouraged everyone to buy Rat aer's book of poetry and Pros which came out yesterday called if I must die you”
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All the Devils Are Here
All the Devils Are Here by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera is a comprehensive historical account detailing the origins and mechanics of the 2008 financial crisis.
Discussed“And then she wrote All the Devils Are Here which is a seminal book on the 2008 financial crisis. So she has the credibility to weigh in on the kind of AI financial engineering”
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Billion Dollar Whale
Billion Dollar Whale by Bradley Hope and Tom Wright investigates the massive financial scandal surrounding the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB and the central role of fugitive financier Jho Low.
Discussed“The book about it called The Billion Dollar Whale. I've done some reporting on it over the years, right?”
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Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room
Discussed“If you've seen the movie Boiler Room um that's exactly what I was doing. Um the the place was like had been mob owned like a month before I got there.”
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Profits of War
Discussed“As you're learning in this book that um Emily and I are both reading now, Prophets of War by Ari Ben Manashe. Um Barack comes up there in a bunch.”
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Other mentions (9: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Naomi Klein is a journalist, activist, and author of a lot of consequential books, including No Logo, Shock Doctrine, Doppelganger.”
“Naomi Klein is a journalist, activist, and author of a lot of consequential books, including No Logo, Shock Doctrine, Doppelganger.”
“Naomi Klein is a journalist, activist, and author of a lot of consequential books, including No Logo, Shock Doctrine, Doppelganger.”
“Naomi and Astra, thank you so much, guys. The book is End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World. Congratulations to you both.”
“He, she's the co-host of the podcast Death Panel and the co-author of the book Health Communism.”
“There was that book, how to blow up a pipeline? He just elected Trump. He blew up them all.”
“Didn't Barney Frank come out this week? Crystal, you might know this, too, and say, Yeah, I just saw the headline. and he's like dying and decided to as his last act on earth to release some book bashing the left talking about how pushing which is which is actually leg perfect legacy for him to be honest with you.”
“And so in in my book The Squad um I interviewed a lot of AOC's staff members who who said that very early 2019.”
“In my book, The Squad, I interviewed a lot of AOC's staff members who said very early in 2019 that this was a fundamental question facing her as she came into office: would she try to get along with her colleagues and move up the ranks of the Democratic Party, building power that way, and then use that power for”