Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W29

“Absolutely, and I think that it’s interesting — I was just reading a book called This Tender Land about Native American schools, and there's one child in it who is constantly sent to solitary confinement.”

“Robinson Crusoe is a book written about a man who shipwrecked and his experience in this shipwreck.”

“Also, Cheryl Strayed's book, Wild, is about the author's experience hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, not the Appalachian Trail.”

“So in my last book, Hacking Darwin, I had a chapter called The End of Sex, which is exactly about this.”

“What I will blame them for is taking the demonization up to eleven, taking the vitriol all up to eleven because that could poison the mind of someone who's already mentally disturbed and say, 'Okay, well, wait a second, if he is Hitler, why wouldn't I be Colonel van Stenberg for assassinating him?”

“Anytime you think in sports, it's fucking over. I was just reading that Agassi book; it's so good! I didn't realize how good...”

“But like if you read—I was reading a Putin book, and literally every chapter just ends with a guy going out in his hallway and getting shot in the face! And I’m like, this seems like a pretty fucked-up rise to power!”

“But we do owe a shout-out to the amazing author Cynthia Barnett, who wrote "Rain: A Natural and Cultural History." You guys know, longtime listeners, we love books about cartoonishly specific things!”

“I just want to quickly give props to a guy, Jason Pargin, who I think you know. He's a writer and wrote that book John Dies at the End and is a thoughtful media critique YouTuber.”

“Well, he... he met with them at... do... during the transfer of their remains back home, but I think, you know, this was that really tough scene that Jen Psaki actually writes about in her book where I... he tried to talk to them about his loss and losing his son, and I think that helped them connect with some”

“he's also the author of American Carnage on the front lines of Republican Civil War and the rise of President Trump and the kingdom”

“he's also the author of American Carnage on the front lines of Republican Civil War and the rise of President Trump and the kingdom”

“and the kingdom the power and the glory American evangelicals in the age of extremist”

“so the first book I'd recommend is from my friend Jonathan Carl over at ABC News and it's the final book that he wrote about Donald Trump the most recent book it's called tired of winning”

“the second book especially in light of what we saw on Saturday with the assassination attempt is a book by Elizabeth Newman called Kingdom of rage and Elizabeth who's a former counterterrorism official she writes really beautifully and eloquently about the threat of domestic terrorism and specifically looking at right-wing Christian nationalism”

“um and my third book is actually by a colleague of mine at the Atlantic McKay cins he wrote this biography called Romney a reckoning and spent a ton of time with Mitt Romney”

“Whether it's saying Trump was an insurrectionist, dictator, or rapist—now Trump itself has become so popular that they're replacing it with the fill-in-the-blank Project 2025. They have to have some label that affixes an emotional response to that label rather than actually engaging in just an underlying debate on the merits, which is too bad for the country.”

“I woke up this morning, and we're launching my new book today, and the landing page went out, but it didn't work.”

“So you'd think, of course, like I mean they're famous for the Scarlet Letter! These are the people who branded Hester Prynne with The Scarlet Letter!”

“Yeah, so all of the Native Americans, even though their society was completely upended, and I guess here's my chance to mention 1491 again because it covers all of this stuff. Man, it's been a while.”

“I noticed you have his book right there, right behind Chuck. Yeah, that's right here; that is the book I learned cosmology from. I was an experimentalist at Fermilab, gravitation, and cosmology principles and applications of the general theory of relativity.”

“Ten years ago, you wrote a book, 'The Cosmic Cocktail,' three parts, dark matter. I now that I'm looking at it, I thought I remembered I had a blurb. Wow, is that how many blurbs you've written in your life?”

“Um the problem with that is there's this you know universal phenomenon in our industry that has a you know 50-year history which is you know kind of extremely it's like probably the most clear thing that we know of in terms of how to predict the future in our industry which is called Moore's Law.”

“Along the way, he wrote a few books, including 'Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics' and 'Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness.'”

“The single best chapter on behavioral finance was written by John Maynard Keynes in 'The General Theory,' which was written in 1936.”

“And it was led by people like Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow, and Samuelson in particular, he was a University of Chicago undergraduate and then went off to graduate school, and his thesis was called 'Foundations of Economic Analysis.'”