Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W24

“So he wrote a book you may have read called 'Against Empathy.' So where do you think he falls on the spectrum of this? I know because I know the book!”

“Have you ever read The Elegance of the Hedgehog? Nope! It's a beautiful novel written incredibly well.”

“But I'll tell you my favorite story of all time—it comes from the Old Testament, the Book of Job. It's studied as one of the great poems of all time.”

“The language is actually from Mosiah 18 of the Book of Mormon.”

“I was recently reading an amazing book called The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker.”

“The first book we read was Tribe by Sebastian Junger, and I actually thought it was an incredible first book because it basically talks about so many of these principles of why we are a tribe and how people gather and become sort of a group, but very different than the Priya Parker thing.”

“It's called Beartown by Fredrik Backman, who is maybe my favorite fiction author.”

“He wrote A Man Called Ove.”

“I've read Anxious People three times.”

“And the topic of this book seems like one of the harder ones to find that overlap or... and you, the title you didn’t go with, ‘Justice is Insurmountable’.”

“Yeah, your life ceases to be normal, and you lose your bead on—the fact that you have to have this— Robert Greene talks about this in 'The 50th Law'—like you have to have this direct connection with the audience because that's ultimately who you're servicing.”

“This is all funny because this is in the next book.”

“Well, you also have the North Star chapter in this book.”

“Yeah, McMaster, HR McMaster, who’s a fantastic writer, wrote a book called "Dereliction of Duty."”

“Nick Lane has a book called, "Life Ascending," where he lists the 10 great inventions of evolution, the origin of life being first, and DNA, the hereditary material that encodes the genetic instructions for all living organisms.”

“There's a term negging; I don't know if you've heard it and I don't know the book, the—the idea is as I understand it, I’ll give you a little bit of approval so it feels good and then you'll always be chasing that approval.”

“I wrote a memoir that encompasses my time in the book, but now we're working on a more of a part two of everything we've learned since the podcast, kind of to all the experts who've helped us. I'm sure it's changing, oh, I'm sorry, sorry, say it again.”

“When I read this in Taylor Branch's book, 'Parting the Waters in American King years,' and Taylor Branch is a Democrat. Yeah, he's Bill Clinton's roommate at Yale. Yeah.”

“In the book of Corinthians, it says, '11 people will not enter the kingdom of heaven.'”

“The two Wes Moores, I don't know if you've heard of Oprah, Oprah had it on her book club thing. But it was a book about Wes Moore who became governor, a black man.”

“Ralph Abernathy wrote in his book 'And the Walls Came Tumbling Down' that in the 1980 election, he went to them and said, 'Look guys, welfare is destroying the Black family.'”

“Our Bible says Jesus gave the parable: If a robber is going to come into a home, he first must bind the strong man.”

“In his farm book, Jefferson writes this to describe the standard plan for the children born into his property: Quote, 'Children till 10 years old to serve as nurses; from 10 to 16 the boys make nails, the girls spin, and at 16 go into the ground or learn trades.'”

“Now, Banneker was an early mathematician, and he was in fact so able at mathematics that by the late 1700s he had a popular almanac that Jefferson and many other Americans used.”

“Very much so, the 1890s, Dumas Malone writes a six volume history of Thomas Jefferson. This is generally considered to be like the first definitive biography of Jefferson.”

“No, at all. Yeah. Malone goes on to quote another line from Notes on the State of Virginia, which he describes as perhaps the most erudite summary of the evil of slavery: And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these”

“Is it in society, or does society make him an animal? It's like Lord of the Flies. It would be a really interesting thing.”

“Uh, another one that came out was obviously The Burning Bed, which is a big case that we're going to talk about now because it was, uh, I mean the movie was a landmark TV movie, but the case that was based on also a landmark case in a lot of ways.”

“He wrote a book in 2007 called 'Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life.' Evan Stark has done some pretty great work.”

“Even Sun Tzu stated that attacking a besieged city is unwise, and there is a vast history of warfare, showcasing the complexities of urban combat.”

“This week, I'm going to see, though it’s supposed to be a surprise, Sarah Snook in Dorian Gray on Thursday! I read and watch movies; we went to see Monkey Man.”