Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W34

“He has this book called Co-Intelligence, and I was, you know, one of the people to review and endorse it.”

“I think, Mike, as we close out this fascinating question from Vivien, I want to ask you whether you have read a book called Clara and the Sun. I have not!”

“And it reminds me of—I’m not going to ask if you've read it, but have you at least pretended to read Marcel Proust's 'Remembrance of Things Past'?”

“I give an example: there's this great book by Leidy Klotz; it's called 'Subtract.' It just came out; it's awesome!”

“As a guy, I really didn't think that I would do a show on or love a book about birth control, but here we are.”

“We've talked about this before, but he was raised going to the church of Norman Vincent Peale, who wrote 'The Power of Positive Thinking,' and it's a fascinating read.”

“This multi-millionaire who went to Princeton and Harvard Law School who became first lady of the United States Who thought so much of herself She called her own memoir "Becoming". Get it?”

“I think that's another aspect of this that people are aware of, that this isn't The Wizard of Oz; you can't just wave your magic wand and create a different type of housing market.”

“She wrote a book called 'The Transformation of America.' Since this is an audio show, I just want to make sure you get the pun there: 'trance' as in hypnotic trance, and 'formation' as in an organization or group.”

“Crowley also practiced some stuff like this, and the Illuminatus Trilogy, which is a fantastic work, also depicts this.”

“And I've brought with me today an old friend of ours, this book, 'Outbreak: The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior,' which is about moral panics and how they spread!”

“Just know this, folks: every time you give us some of those stars in a review, our boss looks at a strange occult, Necronomicon-esque spreadsheet and says, 'We'll give them one more evening.'”

“There was a book that was originally published anonymously called "Revelations of a Spirit Medium," and it was like when a stage magician breaks the big code.”

“Coleman has written a new book published in 2024 called 'The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America,' in which he lays out his case for a return to the classic civil rights attitude of the 1950s and early 1960s.”

“Thomas Sowell has an excellent book titled 'The Quest for Cosmic Justice,' and I recall him mentioning that meritocracy, like capitalism, was coined by its enemies.”

“In his study, Mussolini and Fascism: The View from America, John Patrick Diggins notes that out of 150 articles that mentioned Mussolini in US newspapers from 1925 to 1932, the majority had either a neutral or a bemused positive tone.”

“Now the ideas—why to be fair, like Heritage Foundation's put out a book for the last 50 years; almost like this is not anything new.”

“Psychic gorilla! Ishmael, we should get here!”

“Joining us today is the governor of the great state of Michigan and author of a new memoir, True Gretch: Gretchen Whitmer. Welcome back to Pod Save America!”

“And uh, have you gotten to Bleak House yet? He's finished Bleak House! Two young children and works his ass off on this show!”

“And it turned out that book was a Welsh Aran Legend, and another Reddit post contained some Mayan numerals that you had to decode that became a key that you could use to analyze the Arthurian legend with.”

“There's a book from the 1990s by Kip Thorne, probably the most famous relativist in the world, but also very gifted for writing and for making things very, very clear!”

“Okay, uh, he's co-author of like the most famous relativity book there ever was! It's called Gravitation!”