Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W41

“Joining me today is the former U.S. ambassador to Israel under President Trump and author of the new book, One Jewish State: The Last Best Hope to Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”

“Jordan, I want to say this: after I wrote my book, I was reunited with that side of the family, which just happened recently.”

“In the book, you mentioned that you have this internal monster voice that inflicts doubt and self-worth issues into your mind; can you tell me more about it?”

“And she wrote a wonderful book called The Creative Habit, which I encourage everyone to read, inspiring dancers still today! Still today!”

“Yeah, that—that her first mystery was The Old Clock? Was that the first mystery she ever did?”

“Um, Slouching Towards Bethlehem! And of course, did you read Goodbye to All That when you left New York? I think people sent it to you!”

“Thank you for the way that you communicate, the way you write! The way that you write with importance! You write with urgency about the things that are plaguing society!”

“Man enough to not ban young women from reading Little Women or one of those pants books that the sisters like. I'm man enough to raw dog a flight, it sucked, not worth it.”

“So he wrote this book; he decided to meander over into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because what we really needed was his take. You'll be shocked to learn he reduced it to skin color; shocked to learn it's about colonialism for him.”

“Joining me now, Andrew Klavan He's host of The Andrew Klavan Show He's out with a new book, a highly anticipated mystery novel titled A Woman Underground available now for pre-order Don't miss a moment Subscribe to this show on YouTube and follow me on Instagram, Facebook and X Health has been a big topic around the country over the”

“um Amy Kaplan man our American Israel the story of an entangled Alliance This gets to you know something that we we talk quite a bit about”

“I went back and I started to read biographies of American diplomats and one of my favorite biographies full stop is George Packer's biography of the Diplomat Richard Holbrook the book is written in the style of a novel”

“um it's going to suggest also David Grossman's novel see under love which it's a spraing novel that kind of responds to the Theodore adorno's question about whether Art Is Possible after the Holocaust”

“and then uh the final suggestion I was uh is Rita Dove's Collective poems she's uh a black poet who writes about history at its most brutal and despair making”

“I mean soul and poets and political leadership and moral leadership and spiritual leadership. I grew up reading Langston Hughes and Ellison and Richard Wright, and that's stitched into the narrative. But you know, I can't—all I can speak about in terms of where I think we should...”

“And so she wanted to be around that—she liked one thing we bonded over: I love the musical Hamilton. I don't really like musicals, but I think they did a phenomenal job with it.”

“Um, what how we should wrap up is, okay, how do you determine— Um, like I was listening to your episode with Rich Roll recently, and he was like, 'My favorite thing in this book in the Justice book was the afterward where you do insert yourself into it.'”

“Yeah, so like some of that is like, it's just the enjoy—like, I just read this book I loved called—uh, that—it's just a masterpiece, which is 'Fint, No Tools, We Don't Know Ourselves.'”

“No, it's, um, I was thinking about this though because I was writing upstairs, uh, as I love your book, 'The Cost of These Dreams.'”

“And he goes, so, um, the—the man and wife who—funny, crazy story—the guy who bought this house, he built this dream house with his wife, and then like a year later he gets hit by a streetcar at the World Fair in Chicago and never like dies; never lives in the house; like, like The Devil in the White City,”

“And I think that's true for your book, and like I remember a couple years ago my mother-in-law gave—uh, gave us a kid like Ruby Bridges wrote a—a kids' book, and um she wrote on the inside about how she like, remember, she lived in Louisiana when it happened; she lived like up—she lived in Monroe, I think; anyways, she”

“And you know, I love that Greg Grandon book, 'The End of the Myth,' but like if there's a—you know, there's a case to be made that the land where Matt Till was killed is America was finally settled.”

“Um, but I'm sure they'll do more, um on her Howard Stern interview. Um, he asked about a report that emerged yesterday from Bob Woodward's forthcoming book, as if we needed a Woodward book!”

“You have to subscribe to Pod Save America, read Playbook, read the New York Times, watch MSNBC, and most people don't do that.”

“Yeah, the novels appear to be real: 'The Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger' in 1889; the sequel: 'Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey' in 1893.”

“Rota also mentioned another book of Lockwood's: '1900, or the Last President,' in which New York City is riven by protests following the shocking victory of a populist candidate in the 1896 presidential election who brings on the downfall of the American Republic.”