Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2018-W08

“joining me today is an associate professor of history at Sam Houston State and the co-author of JFK and the Reagan Revolution a secret history of American prosperity Brian to be trovich”

“and then and then it was published as a book and it sold about 80,000 copies of course Kennedy would publish another growth profile is encouraged”

“and then and then it was published as a book and it sold about 80,000 copies of course Kennedy would publish another growth profile is encouraged”

“Richard Reeves who's his greatest biographer he wrote the great book on Kennedy 1992 President Kennedy he said no no what Kennedy liked to do”

“Larry and I talked a bit about a girl he dated Margaret quoits who won the Pulitzer Prize in biography and history she wrote a biography a great biography of John Calhoun 1950”

“nonetheless James Pearson's book Camelot in the Cultural Revolution is the best book ever written but about the Kennedy assassination”

“he's introduced to two books that that change his life The first is Newton's Principia Mathematica and the second is John Locke's essay concerning human understanding”

“The first is Newton's Principia Mathematica and the second is John Locke's essay concerning human understanding”

“Benjamin Franklin when he was the same age as Adams decides that he wants to achieve moral perfection and you can read about this in in Franklin's autobiography which and if you think about it I mean this is extraordinary”

“Well it's it's never the Bible it is Aristotle Nicomachean ethics Cicero cicero's de o'fee key Seneca and epictetus”

“Well it's it's never the Bible it is Aristotle Nicomachean ethics Cicero cicero's de o'fee key Seneca and epictetus”

“which is interesting if you if you read his diary his autobiography all of his political writings and more”

“other than Tom Paine's Common Sense it was the most influential pamphlet written during I think the Revolutionary period”

“Adams was always fascinated with this ancient fable called the choice of Hercules which was first told in Xenophon's memorabilia and then was captured on canvas in I think the 16th century by the by the painter anabolic kurachi”

“so the passage that you just read and much of what you reference here that this was all in his biography so he was just writing this to himself”

“he wrote what I think is still to this day the most importance certainly I think the most brilliant Revolutionary tract that was published it was the title is the no Vangelis letters”

“we've linked to John Adams and the spirit of Liberty as well as the revolutionary writings of John Adams right down below”

“I interviewed a a very very smart journalist named Steve Coll he's written some of the best books about the war in Afghanistan ghost war ghosts wars Directorate asses his latest ones about the CIA's role the military's role all the challenges in the region why we're still there after 17 years”