Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W42

“My guest today, Daron Acemoglu, is a professor of economics at MIT and co-author of a number of influential books written for a popular audience, including 'Why Nations Fail' and 'Power and Progress.' He is also, without a doubt, one of the greatest economists I have ever met.”

“I, you know, Hillary is busy out promoting her book. Does she have time to give lip service?”

“Join now to discuss this and much more, Josh Hammer, senior editor-at-large for Newsweek and host of The Josh Hammer Show and America on Trial with Josh Hammer And also with me, Delano Squires He's a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a contributor at The Blaze Guys, welcome So irritating, so dishonest”

“um Franklin zimmering the criminologist has a book called the city that became safe which is about New York's experience specifically”

“The first one is a lot of the ideas I talked about particularly early in this conversation come from the work of the political scientist James Q Wilson arguably the most influential political scientist of the 20th century my personal ideological hero and his collection of essays thinking about crime was really influential on how I think about crime”

“but instead I'll actually go with Mark kleinman's work on drug policy his book against excess which is in my mind the most analytically sound articulation of how to think about drug policy I've ever read just across the board it is a dense book”

“I've written about it in Fingerprints of the Gods. Let's see if Jamie has already found it.”

“I decided to investigate it and explore it, and it led to The Sign and the Seal, which was published in 1992, and that’s what set me on the path to Fingerprints of the Gods and everything that followed!”

“This is a poem by James Dickey, who was a poet but also a novelist; he wrote Deliverance!”

“They read from another book on race titled Calling America and a disgruntled professor testified that five black men from the Tuskegee Institute toured Statesboro College and ate in the cafeteria while no white people were on campus.”

“I'm going to quote from the book Race and Racism in the United States: 'On his deathbed, he told his Baptist preacher that the black race was created inferior by God.'”

“This is one of the most terrifying things that you've heard a presidential candidate say because it is straight out of Mein Kampf.”

“It's normally caused by a budget issue because leading up to these crises, one of the great books on this topic is The Great Wave by David Hackett Fischer. He found these crises while studying the history of inflation, and he found you could correlate the history of inflation with these crises because inflation is a parallel for government instability.”

“But by 2002, when I published a book called 'Underworld', which was the most massive and heavy book that I've ever written because I was writing very defensively at the time.”

“They wrote an immense book in the 1960s called 'Hamlet's Mill'.”

“There are two names that need to be mentioned: the late, great Terence McKenna and his book Food of the Gods, where he strongly proposed the idea that our ancestral encounters with psychedelics made us fully human.”

“And then from then on, I was a huge fan of hers and looked up all her... you know stuff from her life! Books about her, you know, books by Norman Mailer! You know, just like incredible!”

“So back in the day, we did on this podcast, we did a book club reading of 'The Meaning of Mariah Carey'! We did! And because it's my favorite book, and it is like, I think it's a piece of music history!”

“What I liked about invisible rulers—the reason I picked that for the title of the book is, as you note, it's a reference to the 1920s.”

“You know, her big Sister Souljah moment was to say she wants to raise the capital gains tax rate, but less than Joe Biden. That was her big Sister Souljah moment.”

“In a work of his called Shakespeare's Insomnia and the Causes Thereof, he claims that newly discovered correspondence between Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, an actor named William Kemp, and a moneylender with a tremendously offensive name—he all show that Shakespeare had difficulty with money and marriage!”

“He writes a book called Studies in Early American History: A Notable Lawsuit!”

“And when you hear from Steven Miller, when you hear from some of the authors of Project 2025, Steven Miller, potential White House Chief of Staff if Trump wins again, what they really want to do is get into legal immigration.”

“Uh, in the film 'Angels and Demons,' oh, I like that one! Yeah, the Dan Brown second novel of that series. It reports that the Catholic Church, oh, that's right!”

“The more proximal reason for speaking with Spencer today was that he has a new book coming out called Light of the Mind, Light of the World, which is available in mid-October 2024.”

“I think there are two phrases that come to mind; there's a book called 'A Fighter's Heart' by Sam Sheridan, and it's a pretty interesting account of all the different forms of martial arts and fighting. There's an interesting part of the book where he says, 'You can't have your 20th birthday until you're 19,' which is a big giant”

“And the reason I say this is, um, you know, I remember when Steve Jobs was alive because I was a postdoc in Palo Alto then and would see him occasionally around Palo Alto, um, there; and then, you know, read the Walter Isaacson biography about him, and it seemed like he had a very clear sense that someday he”

“In 1972, Ernest Becker wrote a book, which you'll know all about, the book based on the title called The Denial of Death; he won the Pulitzer Prize for it. And Becker's contention was that we are the only species that at a very early age recognizes that we are only here for a short period of time, but more”

“For those of you that haven’t heard, I have a new book coming out; it’s my very first book entitled, 'Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body.' This is a book that I’ve been working on for more than five years and it’s based on more than 30 years of research and experience.”