Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W14

“Finally, Mike gets a few details wrong about the story of Peter Pan, at least as it's told in the original 1911 novel 'Peter and Wendy' by Scottish author and playwright J.M. Barrie.”

“I felt like I was, I don't know, it was like very Little House on the Prairie feeling, like you know, you're Laura with Mary.”

“I will say one of the best pieces of advice I heard recently was from someone who was telling me about a children's book, I don't know what book it is, but the entire book just repeats over and over the two words, 'Zoom out, zoom out, zoom out, and maybe that's the power of nostalgia.'”

“Is there any hope here, solutions, short-term, long-term? Obama kind of summarized this beautifully in his book.”

“There's an incredible book called 'Forcing the Hands of God.' Oh, beautiful book.”

“She served in the U.S. military for many years, achieving the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and now she's the author of a new book called 'For Love of Country.'”

“You have spoken about the value of religious faith in your life, particularly your Hindu faith, viewing the Bhagavad Gita as a spiritual guide. What role does faith in God play in your life?”

“And she was a really good writer and she wrote a book called 'The Everglades: River of Grass,' which is a great title or whatever, but it was apparently a very popular book that changed people's attitudes toward the Everglades.”

“Beyond the Powell memorandum, a major intellectual touchstone of this movement was 'Wealth and Poverty,' a book by George Gilder.”

“The company of the commercial faithful gathered on the banks of Cali's Russian River could look for succor to Goldwater's autobiography, The Conscience of a Conservative, to William F. Buckley's editorials in National Review, to the novels of Ayn Rand!”

“In 1965, Nader published a book called "Unsafe at Any Speed," which compelled the automotive industry to include seat belts and improve safety features.”

“So my sense of reading you, overall particularly reading your new book, 'Age of Revolutions,' is a sense of sadness and surprise that the world finds itself today in a state of peril.”

“Fareed Zakaria is host of the weekly CNN program GPS, that stands for Global Public Square, and he has written several books including 'The Post-American World' and 'The Future of Freedom.'”

“He came to our attention because of a book he has coming out soon called The Truth About Immigration.”

“That makes me think of The Millionaire Next Door, that book.”

“It's kind of crazy because like we get left behind these great quotes from the founding fathers and like Blackstone's formulation, and then Benjamin Franklin says, 'No, it should be that when 100 guilty persons escape, it is better that 100 guilty persons escape than one innocent person suffer.' And we're like, wow, thought-provoking, brilliant.”

“His book—I don't know if it's the same book we both read, *The Emperor's New Mind*? Yes, exactly, that's the book that blew my mind as a teenager. By that point, I already liked math, but he talked about these things called Turing machines, which are theoretical computers.”

“I got two theses on these: one is the Eric Klinenberg who just got a great book out now about the pandemic called 2020.”

“I think human beings don't change, and the story of humanity is not humanity becoming ever better, sort of in the Steven Pinker notion.”

“This is, uh, this is the chronology of water. Yeah, a long time. Um, and would that be the first film that you direct?”

“One is called 'Never Satisfied,' and the other one is called 'How to Rewire Your Brain.'”

“It's similar to how I think of 'Bird by Bird,' a book about writing that's really about life.”