The Brothers John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War

The first book is a book called The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer, which is a joint biography of Alan Dulles and John Foster Dulles and how incredibly one was head of the State Department, the other was head of the CIA and how they worked to overthrow multiple countries during Eisenhower's time.

I don't know if you saw, Zeke came out with a book. The Brothers book.

And we did an interview at Microsoft CEO conference.

You know, I'm not a wallflower. Rom's not a wallflower. Zeke's not a wallflower.

So we go up to the interview. It's all three of us. And immediately we turn into the siblings.

It's Zeke in the lead. Rom fighting for it. Me shutting up.

early every summer morning in the first years of the 20th century, two small boys awoke as dawn broke over Lake Ontario. Their day began with a cold bath, the only kind their father allowed. After breakfast, they gathered with the rest of their family on the front porch for a Bible reading, sang a hymn or two, and knelt as their father led them in prayer. Their duty done, they raced to the shore where their grandfather and uncle were waiting to take them out to stalk the wily smallmouth bass.

muscular, assertive foreign policy that would force weaker countries to trade with Americans on terms Americans considered fair.

Sullivan and Cromwell played an important role in the development of modern capitalism by helping to organize what its official history calls some of America's greatest industrial, commercial and financial enterprises.

quote all were gregarious intrigued by possibilities liked to do things had three bright ideas a day shared the optimism of stock market plungers and were convinced that every problem had its handle and that the CIA should find a way to reach it the intelligence historian thomas powers has written they also tended to be white anglo-saxon patricians from old families with old money at least at the beginning and they somehow inherited traditional british attitudes towards the colored races of the world not the puka sahib arrogance of the indian raj but the mixed fascination and condescension of men like te lawrence who were enthusiastic partisans of the alien cultures into which they dipped for a time and rarely doubted their ability to help until it was too late these were the best men who formed the core of the early CIA most came from privileged backgrounds that isolated them from ordinary life and had gone to the right schools during the war they had traded genteel lives for death-defying adventures upon returning home they found the quiet routines of peace unfulfilling

early every summer morning in the first years of the 20th century, two small boys awoke as dawn broke over Lake Ontario. Their day began with a cold bath, the only kind their father allowed. After breakfast, they gathered with the rest of their family on the front porch for a Bible reading, sang a hymn or two, and knelt as their father led them in prayer. Their duty done, they raced to the shore where their grandfather and uncle were waiting to take them out to stalk the wily smallmouth bass.

muscular, assertive foreign policy that would force weaker countries to trade with Americans on terms Americans considered fair.

Sullivan and Cromwell played an important role in the development of modern capitalism by helping to organize what its official history calls some of America's greatest industrial, commercial and financial enterprises.

quote all were gregarious intrigued by possibilities liked to do things had three bright ideas a day shared the optimism of stock market plungers and were convinced that every problem had its handle and that the CIA should find a way to reach it

the intelligence historian thomas powers has written they also tended to be white anglo-saxon patricians from old families with old money at least at the beginning and they somehow inherited traditional british attitudes towards the colored races of the world not the puka sahib arrogance of the indian raj but the mixed fascination and condescension of men like te lawrence who were enthusiastic partisans of the alien cultures into which they dipped for a time and rarely doubted their ability to help until it was too late

early every summer morning in the first years of the 20th century, two small boys awoke as dawn broke over Lake Ontario. Their day began with a cold bath, the only kind their father allowed. After breakfast, they gathered with the rest of their family on the front porch for a Bible reading, sang a hymn or two, and knelt as their father led them in prayer. Their duty done, they raced to the shore where their grandfather and uncle were waiting to take them out to stalk the wily smallmouth bass.

The native inhabitants had proved themselves incapable of maintaining a respectable and responsible government and lacked the energy or will to improve the advantages with which Providence had given them.

Sullivan and Cromwell played an important role in the development of modern capitalism by helping to organize what its official history calls some of America's greatest industrial, commercial and financial enterprises.

The brothers is a great book. Everybody read the brothers if you haven't read the brothers. Like it's incredible.

You can add on to that Jakarta method, which I think pairs really well with it. Which brings in Indonesia. But yeah.

The publications all the Shah's men by Stephen Kinzer the brothers by Stephen Kinzer

The brothers by Stephen Kinzer