Books first mentioned on podcasts in week 2024-W52

“Joining me now—Victor Davis Hansen, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution! He's also the author of 'The End of Everything'! Wow, what a night!”

“There's a lot to dig into with Howard Bloom. He's the author of the book 'When the Night Comes Falling,' which includes much of his extensive and amazing reporting on this case.”

“I read a book called 'The Magic of Believing' by Claude M. Bristol, this old book, and it talked about how to condition your mind, and it talked about incantations, not affirmations. You go, 'I'm happy, I'm happy, I'm happy,' and your brain goes, 'BS,' I'm not happy.”

“Now that being said, there's a book series called Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland written by a physicist, George Gamow, a mid-20th-century physicist; brilliant!”

“My favorite quote is from Ben Franklin from Poor Richard's Almanack, yes he said, three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead!”

“George Frasier, 'The Golden Bough' is nuts; it was first published in 1890 and it’s talking about a lot of the same things and it still holds up because Frasier was largely correct!”

“Check out The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. To your point, Sarah is whispering in.”

“Well, according to a gentleman named Pete Bruton who wrote a book called The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush, he says as soon as Seal was freed, he quote, 'began working full-time for the CIA, traveling back and forth from the U.S. to Latin America!'”

“That’s interesting, too, when you switch between New International Version of the Bible in King James and some of the other newer versions of the Bible, Book of Mormon... yeah.”

“So people in the modern world figuring out the exact date of Jesus's birthday, their goals differ from the goals of whomever wrote the gospels.”

“But if you go to other scholars, like Flavius Josephus—oh, what a great name!”

“That's why Gavin de Becker’s The Gift of Fear is a must-read book, and it's a really important point, I think, beyond just France; it's a human experiential point.”

“in her beautiful book the Sabbath World Judith schvitz looks very squarely at that question”

“well I was going to recommend Hessel but I am going to skip that because we've talked about it a lot”

“and her most famous novel you've probably heard of it is middl March”

“her first novel was called Adam beid and it's from 1859 and it's an incredible novel with a what we would Now call a feminist plot but it's also set in an English Village in the turn of the 19th century”

“uh there's a really beautiful quote in the book Gilead about this uh by Marilyn Robinson which is I think my favorite book and it it's all the book is this letter of an older man to his young son and he says you see how it is Godlike to love the being of someone Your Existence is a delight”

“In Ramblin' Man, Ed Craig dives into more detail about a left-wing anti-war song he wrote called 'Why Do You Stand There in the Rain.', based on the title of a New York Post article.”

“He had composed an autobiographical novel at this point entitled 'Bound for Glory,' which had been set for adaptation into a major Hollywood production, but that deal fell through, as did many others, as unions adopted anti-communist stances during this paranoid era.”

“I'll give you an example: so in The Brothers Karamazov, the hero is a novice named Alyosha, and he's contrasted with Ivan. Alyosha is a very good person, but he's not an intellectual and his arguments aren't as tightly formulated and pointed as they might be.”

“You wrote a book called 'Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives.' How do you describe the book to people?”