Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W12

“We have different TV shows and fashion senses and everything, and I break all of that down in the book.”

“Or the worst part if it, and this is something that even Neil Howell got into in 'The Fourth Turning,' is that the new version of it was that if a war starts and then there's a provocation in the US or Ukraine or somewhere in Europe and somehow it gets blamed on Trump, and it gets blamed on MAGA,”

“The following is a conversation with Annie Jacobsen, an investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of several amazing books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security, including the books titled 'Area 51', 'Operation Paperclip', 'The Pentagon's Brain Phenomena', 'Surprise, Kill, Vanish', and her new book, 'Nuclear War'.”

“The following is a conversation with Annie Jacobsen, an investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of several amazing books on war, weapons, government secrecy, and national security, including the books titled 'Area 51', 'Operation Paperclip', 'The Pentagon's Brain Phenomena', 'Surprise, Kill, Vanish', and her new book, 'Nuclear War'.”

“Carl Sagan talked about that in this amazing book he wrote with two scientist colleagues called "The Cold and the Dark."”

“You've written, like you said, the book "Phenomena" on the secret history of the US government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis.”

“But the real problem, what has happened, and I write about this in my book, 'First Platoon', which is about a group of young soldiers who goes to Afghanistan and unwittingly becomes part of the Defense Department’s biome efforts to capture biometrics on 85% of the population of Afghanistan.”

“For sure, yeah, but I had read, of course, this Nicholas Sparks book! It was like targeted for someone like me, my age! And I was like, I have to do this!”

“And then how does it... like the choice 'cause Walk to Remember was the first movie, right? Princess Di? Oh my God!”

“I wonder if the author of Gone Girl got inspired by this story when she wrote a book, you know? Do you know?”

“David Leonhardt has other talents: I'm a senior writer at The New York Times and I'm the author of 'Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream.' Leonhardt has been writing about immigration for years.”

“So early in grad school, I'm at MIT. I had published these two books about how to be a good student, right? And I had a blog.”

“Yeah, you go back and read David Allen, what you get, what's his goal? Occasional moments of Zen-like peace, among the mind, like there's nothing to turn you into a processing machine and a survival process you, right?”

“And then it's okay, we're going to do the four cardinal virtues books, we're going to, you know, really push the studio quality pod, you know, the plays. It was like you push chips in, right?”

“So back on my shelf I got a book by Stephen Hawking, 'The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time.' Okay, it’s got some title like that.”

“Well, now that I think about it, the first one that really— not the first one that made me laugh, but the one that hit me on a second level was Bloom County.”

“Essentially, Art Spiegelman, the guy who created Mouse, said that Peanuts was Schultz breaking himself up into child-sized pieces and letting them go at each other for half a century.”