Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W21

“She's also the author of a book called How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes—a good goal for anyone! Yeah, that's a good goal.”

“Mike got some details wrong in a story from Corrie ten Boom's 1971 autobiographical novel, The Hiding Place. When directly asked by the Gestapo whether a young woman hiding in their home is Jewish, ten Boom's sister, who is named Nollie, not Nelly, admits that she is.”

“I wanted to recommend the book, The Highly Sensitive Person by Dr. Elaine Aron to Amanda and anyone else who feels similarly. It gives very good explanations for the how and the why of her form of narcissism, and above all, it underscores the many advantages of being highly sensitive.”

“Yeah, but so is like a Time-Life Book.”

“Yeah, and then there's another CIA historian who wrote a best-selling biography of Allen Dulles, called The Devil's Chessboard. He wrote a book about the involvement of the CIA in the assassinations, called Brothers.”

“Yeah, and then there's another CIA historian who wrote a best-selling biography of Allen Dulles, called The Devil's Chessboard. He wrote a book about the involvement of the CIA in the assassinations, called Brothers. He's an historian named David Talbot; he was the founder of Salon.”

“This was the Sparta problem Aristotle talks about in 'Politics,' where Sparta knew how to wage war.”

“He told the court that he had not read any of Trump's books, but had seen quotes from The Art of the Deal. Now, gentlemen, if this is Trump's last best hope to stop a guilty verdict, I don't like his chances.”

“Joining me now is Charlamagne tha God. He is the author of the new book, 'Get Honest or Die Lying'.”

“I tell a story in one of my first books—this is my third book—but I tell a story in my first book, 'Black Privilege,' about how I had a cousin aunt; she was like my mom's cousin, but she was also like an aunt to me as well.”

“And the reason I'd like to see it more like President Obama is because, as he said, these are his words, 'The Audacity of Hope,' like you have to be optimistic.”

“Now, as Aaron said in 'Death of a Nation' in my book, he has convinced these poor white voters that he is for them.”

“Let's give the audience just a little flavor; let's play the montage of John reading from some of these pornographic books in front of these school boards so people can get a flavor. "13 Reasons Why" by Jay Asher, currently in Storm Grove Middle School and Freshman Learning Center, Page 265: "As if letting him finger me was going to”

“I talk about this in my book Hoodwinked; go get a copy of it.”

“This is one we played from May of 2023, and it happened in Asheville, North Carolina, where John went into the school board meeting to take issue with a book that, ironically, is called It's Perfectly Normal.”

“When you consider even a book like this, I went to Missouri just two days ago. This book is entitled Jack of Hearts and Other Parts.”

“Same with this book right here. This book right here is called Let's Talk About It.”

“I can't even open this book, and then you have this book. It's called Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens.”

“Hey everyone I'm Megyn Kelly, welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show And we have a treat for you today Joining me now is someone I've been wanting to interview on this program for years He is one of the sharpest political commentators around Someone who's not afraid to take risks and has been politically incorrect for decades before it was”

“You raised this point in the in the book too, and I thought it was a really good one about how when we do our, you know, look back at history, only the whites get excoriated for their bad behavior 200 years ago. It's like wait a minute, yeah; Genghis Khan was pretty rough. You know, talk about colonizers; I”

“Today, she is here to share her story in a new book that goes into her childhood, the unfair advantage transgender athletes have, and her advice for not just women and girls, but everyone. The book is called 'Swimming Against the Current, Fighting for Common Sense in a World That's Lost Its Mind,' and it's out tomorrow.”

“And it's weird; when you look at what he writes in Natural History, he is kind of the first cryptozoologist; like, the scholarly burden of proof is not really a thing, so this guy is just sort of like when Freud was making up psychoanalysis.”

“The earliest mention of it comes from another ancient historian, a Greek named Ctesias, who wrote a book called Indica in the fifth century BCE. The book, which translates to 'the couch,' is unfortunately lost to history.”

“What Wally George does in his 1999 autobiography is he coined the phrase 'combat TV' to describe the thing that he invented—now that’s like all news programs!”

“And that is the, yeah, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying to remember my Behind the Bastards extended universe. Uh, that all comes from the Turner Diaries, right?”

“It's also just so... the thing that's so wild to me is that after, and I know I've talked about this, I'm sure on previous episodes, but just after 20 years of the terror wars and what a disaster those were, and to the point that John McCain wrote in his memoir that the war in Iraq was a mistake;”

“There's a weird, I remember reading this book. I believe it was called 'Before the Dawn,' I believe, by Nicholas Wade.”

“I mean, I knew, obviously, his book is called 'Promise Me, Dad,' and his need for him to stay in the fight.”

“It's a brilliant book called 'The Forbidden Body', where she argues against this stigma. When I tracked Shelley down, she stressed to me she's really proud of everything she said about stigma and is 100% right.”