Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W30

“there's a a book which I preview will recommend later by a political scientist named Samuel Popkin and it's called the reasoning voter”

“It's a book called Finding Freedom the untold story of Joshua Glover Freedom Seeker It's by Ruby West Jackson and Walter McDonald”

“I had the chance today to talk to Mary Harrington, author of 'Feminism Against Progress', published in 2023.”

“I've drawn from Ivan Illich's book from 1980, 'Gender', to understand the transition.”

“But the feminism which falls out of Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl in the 1960s, which is really the girl boss feminism, is the feminism of Cosmopolitan magazine, and it's really a thin ideological veneer over what is fundamentally, as you say, a hedonistic project.”

“Suddenly, I said, "What are you doing?" I said, "Your book? What book?"”

“Joining me now, Jim VandeHei—he's the co-founder and CEO of Axios, and he's also the author of the recently released book "Just the Good Stuff: No BS Secrets to Success." Jim, welcome to the show!”

“Yeah, get you another turtle, I spent my time expressing issues with Oppenheimer's biography, but I do think his description of this trip, this second death safari, can ask how damned weird it was with professional 35mm cameras, Bobby and Billings documented their African adventure, which also included a rafting trip to Egypt's Valley of the Kings and oddly a”

“Uh, it was derived from a book called The Naked Communist by W. Cleon Skousen, who was a CIA agent and had done a lot of study on communism and its effect.”

“Um, the Red Book, aka the order of battle of the German Army, was a very big deal, and it was basically just an ongoing, um, list of like everything they could learn about the German Army. Um, anytime they would get documents or any kind of plans, that would go into the Red Book or they would, you know,”

“The problem was at the time, Ronald Reagan was the President of the United States, and there's a guy named Fred Kaplan who wrote a book about, um, the history of cyber war called Dark Territory, and apparently, Reagan saw this film, was so freaked out by it that he got the Joint Chiefs together and was like, 'Can this”

“First, I would encourage everyone to tune in to your excellent show, Veli, which airs 10:00 a.m. Eastern on Saturdays and Sundays on MSNBC. Also, you have a great memoir out, 'Small Acts of Courage.' It's fantastic.”

“Actually, one of the great thrills of my life was corresponding with Christopher Buckley during writing this book; he wrote 'Thank You for Smoking,' which this book definitely reminds me of.”

“Yes, in that 'Mind on Fire' book about... I think it's one of the best books I've read about Emerson too. Yes.”

“One of my favorite stories is from the book 'Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist.' Oh yeah, LS...oh no, that's not it, or maybe it's not; I'm misremembering. Either it was fiction or I remember it as a memoir from Ernest Rutherford, who first showed how empty the atom is by passing...was it neutrons or alpha particles?”