Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W25

“And then there's another guy, Herodotus, he was a historian from Greece; he wrote basically a monograph on Babylon a hundred years after Nebuchadnezzar, and he didn't mention the Hanging Gardens at all.”

“I think one appears in the Canterbury Tales—the wife of Bath, I believe—where they're just like always in a good mood, they have money, they're independent, they don't take any guff from anybody.”

“Oh, whoa, okay, very Frankenstein here. That's very cool though because our brains do the same thing, I guess, so don't they?”

“Later, former White House Counsel Bob Bauer stops by to talk about playing Donald Trump in debate prep for Joe Biden in 2020, the Supreme Court, and his new book, 'The Unraveling,' about just how unethical our politics have become.”

“But first, in our book, 'Democracy or Else,' comes out on Monday.”

“Yes, we're working on that, largely because it was called 'Battling the Big Lie,' and it was largely about them.”

“The American Law Institute organized two working groups that I've been involved with, and I co-chaired each of them with Jack Goldsmith, with whom I wrote a book about presidential institutional reform called 'After Trump' a few years ago.”

“Tonight, Jon, Tommy, and I are on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and we're in New York as part of the launch of "Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps," a book we wrote with Josh Holloway. And that is very good.”

“Oh, um, 'Democracy Or Else!' A week from today! As a reminder, this is a book that you wrote, right?”

“uh Eric Klein's book 1177 the year civilization collapsed has been recommended to me by so many people over the years I finally read it it's fantastic this is about things that happened thousands of years ago but it's really interesting”

“and I I came across a book by a guy named Paul Dixon called the rise of the GI Army that's about the effort to sort of build up the World War II American Military before Pearl Harbor and really making the case of the kind of like wisdom of the people who saw in 1939 1940 that America was”

“In general, the ditching of the classics where we said, 'Oh well, look at the list of books that students are to read—Maya Angelou, Shakespeare.'”

“My third book came out in 2022 and it was a cookbook that brought everything together.”

“You know, people, in Hofer, in The True Believer and so on, you know, he wrote so effectively about how every mass movement has sought to take away people's national identity and their personal identity.”

“This concept is elaborated upon in the book 'The Beginning of Infinity' by David Deutsch. You are always pursuing new knowledge.”

“So we see the shadows of Limitless, we see the shadows of Flowers for Algernon. It is possible that people may be spending money on the chemical equivalent of Monkey Shines, but they feel different.”

“You, in the book you write about your background.”

“So yeah, I talked to Mark Greaney about that too, the Grey Man.”

“Yeah, I'm not there yet; I do have a really—I have one that Hemingway actually wrote A Moveable Feast on; somebody, uh, a fan sent it to me.”

“Go back and read the books in the 70s, the books in the 80s, read Tom Clancy, read Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, whatever it is, it's a snapshot of what’s going on geopolitically.”

“And you know the best book that I ever read about it was David Lifton's book, 'Best Evidence'?”

“You know, from the book Island of Shade named by David Vine, French settlers built societies on the islands around enslaved labor and particularly on Mauritius the cultivation of sugar cane.”

“In his 2003 book, Web of Deceit, Mark Curtis notes that in making this agreement, quote, "Britain thus ignored UN Resolution 266 XX, which called on the UK to take no action that would dismember the territory of Mauritius and violate its territorial integrity."”