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A Man Without a Country

Kurt Vonnegut

A A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut’s hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"), art ("To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a...

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The Daily Stoic

The podcast conversation mentioned this book as a story about a man who renounces his country and is subsequently exiled to sea. It was used to illustrate the concept of change in people's perspectives.

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a man without a country oh sure yeah this is another marvelous book about um someone who who dams the united states of america and and it's a metaphorical kind of book but he's literally sent to see u...

— Episode: Admiral James Stavridis on James Stockda...

Episode: Admiral James Stavridis on James Stockdale and the...

The podcast conversation mentioned this book as a story about a man who renounces his country and is subsequently exiled to sea. It was used to illustrate the concept of change in people's perspectives.

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a man without a country oh sure yeah this is another marvelous book about um someone who who dams the united states of america and and it's a metaphorical kind of book but he's literally sent to see uh for the rest of his life without being allowed to touch land again in in the united states by the end of the book he has quite an epiphany in that regard and it's a book about about our country and about patriotism and about what we hold dear and back to where we started this conversation almost an hour ago can people change and the man without a country changes in the course of the book that's another thing i like about it yeah he realizes what he took for granted and there's a reason that was written at the height of the the civil war

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