Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2020-W40

“really i was listening to robert reich's the system he was talking about oligarchy versus democracy”

“he is the author of dear reader the unauthorized autobiography of kim jong-il and the new right a journey to the fringe of american politics”

“i read a book called ostracism and this wasn't scientific but basically the author was a psychiatrist at college whatever and he had one of his colleagues they did an experiment”

“and there's an amazing book by arthur herman called the idea of decline western history i it's one of my top 10 books where he goes through every 20 years how there's a different population that say it's the end of the world”

“there's a great book by eugene lyons called the red decade they all knew they every atrocity that uh was done under stalinism was excused in the west”

“there's an amazing book called revolution 1989 it's like the most beautiful book i've ever read by victor sebastian”

“it's like the most beautiful book i've ever read by victor sebastian he's a hungarian author”

“the machiavellians by james burnham uh this is a book about how politics works in reality as opposed to how people imagine it working”

“um thaddeus russell's book a renegade history of the united states his thesis is that it's the degenerates that give us all freedom”

“she wrote their eyes were watching god a couple of other books she was just an amazing amazing figure”

“And the whole wall of books is like, even before Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, it was like RBG, the notorious, and you know, all Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton and then Chelsea Clinton.”

“but can you tell us how you came to write the tattooist of auschwitz”

“actually i promise we're going to get into stories i hope which is a new book”

“Oh absolutely same with our premier leavey's book too you know night in particular”

“and then when silke came out or was coming out i was in koshita in slovakia doing some research for finishing off silker's book”

“only yesterday tim ferriss guy that wrote the four-hour work week and the four-hour chef and the four-hour body this unbelievably well-known new multiple times new york times best-selling author”

“you know like i i always think about i am legend where they're like we have this cure for cancer everybody takes it It's fine no problem and then suddenly you know there's like the last person on earth is will smith”

“i mean i'm reading uh lyndon b johnson's book right now about 1968 so one thing that he did during the race riots is they put troops on the ground”

“you know matthew iglesias for vox wrote this article i guess i think it was him called like the case for one billion americans”

“things fall apart entropy”