Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W49

“I have an original copy of that book, which is one of my most prized possessions. From 1939, this was a 23-year-old kid, who the hell are you, John F. Kennedy?”

“In 2008, James Carville wrote a book that I always refer to, titled '40 More Years,' claiming Democrats would never lose an election again after the Obama coalition landslide. I was born in 1992, I watched red states go blue, I've seen blue states go red, and seen swing states change as well.”

“One of my favorite books is called 'Coming Apart' by Charles Murray, which underscores how the cultural environment that people experience while attending college affects their entire trajectory in life. It influences everything from where they move, who they marry, to their grocery shopping habits and the television shows they watch.”

“Two books I recommend are 'The Origins of Woke' by Richard Hanania and 'The Age of Entitlement' by Christopher Caldwell. It's effectively a religion, and its meaning varies among different people.”

“Now I have to return to Jim Webb's book, an incredible read that delves into the legacy of the Scots-Irish. War, that's the— Yeah.”

“We were forced to read 'Essence of Decision' by Graham Allison in graduate school, and I'm so thankful we did. It's one of the foundations of political science because it lays out theories of how government works.”

“I really believe that Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations in The Atlantic is one of those. It radicalized an entire generation of basically like white college-educated women to think completely differently on race.”

“I've been deep diving on Genghis Khan. Reading 'Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.' Yeah, Jack Weatherford.”

“Roger Ailes, who is a genius, shout out to 'The Loudest Voice in the Room' by Gabriel Sherman. That book changed my life, too, because it really made me understand media.”

“And I actually think about that a lot from, you know, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon. Actually, your episode on Rome was fantastic. People should go listen to that.”

“Adam Grant writes about Malcolm Gladwell, who's the well-known author of many New York Times bestsellers like 'David and Goliath,' 'Tipping Point,' and 'Outliers.'”

“While it's true that this subject has only become a focus of modern emotion psychology in recent years, we should note that in 1872, Charles Darwin described emotions related to learning and thinking in his book 'The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals.'”

“And I think that when you have a really amazing guest speaker or I'm reading Steve Jobs' daughter's memoir, 'Small Fry,' oh my gosh, I'm just leaning into every detail.”

“And in 1969, a very famous book came out called The Doctor's Case Against the Pill written by a medical journalist named Barbara Seaman.”

“Then you had your little 'Thorn Birds' and the different miniseries and stuff; I mean, it was glorious with big rollouts. You know what?”

“Experts have pointed out that it appears to be malfunctioning; one of the live rounds had a phrase scrolled on it that said, 'Depose, deny, defend,' which is similar to 'Delay, deny, defend,' the name of a book about how insurance companies screw people over.”

“So she essentially did what they did in Wolf of Wall Street, where they launched an IPO and they already held it and they were selling it off?”

“If you enjoyed this conversation, you will love our discussion with the author of The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene.”

“That's why Proust wrote 'A Taste of Things Remembered.' It's all about how he eats a madeleine dipped in tea or something like that.”

“It's in my first book, by the way. The evolutionary basis of consumption.”

“uh Gary wills's Gettysburg uh Daniel melson's uh lost and Julian Barn uh the noise of time”

“uh Gary wills's Gettysburg uh Daniel melson's uh lost and Julian Barn uh the noise of time”

“and again with Ron inglehart I wrote a book on that sacred and secular and as increasing security came about so religion no longer seem to be as important in people's lives”

“When I was reading your book though uh another word was used in passing disorientation and I've been thinking a lot about that word”

“but in your data and telling something happens around 2010 that is like a a step change in the success of this populist authoritarian tendency”

“Al our final question what are three books You' recommend to the audience uh so first is tyranny of Merit by Michael sandell's Justice philosopher at Harvard”

“but the one that also just came to my mind was I think it's called don't get above the raisin which is a story about um country music and how it infused Southern working-class politics by Bill Malone F Shakir”

“Yeah, but you know, he's got the Breathe book, but he just came out with a new one. I just listened to it like last week, you know what I mean?”

“Next week, on Tuesday, there's a book called 'If I Must Die,' which is Ratallah's posthumously published book of prose and poems.”

“Go read some Mao; like you think that any of those revolutionaries would be tolerating this level of indiscipline when they actually believe that their revolution is important, is so important that it is going to save humanity?”

“Anyway, I don't know a lot about Garfield; I do have a biography of him on my shelf, though, which is interesting.”

“If you read the Constitution, there is no such thing as an independent agency, and yet there it is.”

“Speaking of people who aren't pedophiles in a way that I can prove today, we're going to be reading Marjorie Taylor Greene's book. Oh my God, there's an entire section about pedophiles in this book!”

“Garrison and I walked down a little bit to where Marjorie Taylor Greene was doing a book signing for her new book. Yes, Jamie, it's called MTG.”

“He's also an author, uh, and I just want this, a kid's book, a kids' book. This is the description of the book: 'Hillary Quinton and her Shifty Knight Adam Schiff have spread lies that King Donald had cheated to become king.'”

“Yeah, well, I'd put it a little differently; I saw it as a superb opportunity to use this film as a motivator and to get people interested or intrigued in science, and then there would be a bridge to the science through this book.”

“After that moment, I began to read more and explore spiritual growth; one book by Dr. Wayne Dyer helped reveal where true happiness comes from.”

“He identified a famous case with Lady Chatterley's Lover, which was banned as a pornographic novel in Great Britain. It was quite sexually graphic for its time, and that ban was eventually overturned.”

“He is also the author of the spectacularly bestselling book, The Psychology of Money.”

“To learn more about Morgan's work and to find links to his two superb books, The Psychology of Money and Same as Ever, please see the links in the show note captions.”

“And for Steven Spielberg, you know, the E.T. man, the shark man to to then, you know, direct The Color Purple and and Whoopi Goldberg. This character became so big, you know, when your little life is just bigger and brighter and more impactful.”