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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve cover

The Creature from Jekyll Island

G. Edward Griffin

Mentioned 1 day ago

Iran War Expected to Spark Global Energy Crisis. Here’s What Americans Can Expect at the Pump.

He mentioned that reading the book revealed how banks create money out of thin air, challenging his previous assumptions about the monetary system.

I read Creature from Jekyll Island. I was like, that can't be true. How money is made. And you find out banks make money out of thin air.

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The Ultimate Guide to CIA Skills, Tactics, and Techniques

John Kiriakou

Mentioned 2 days ago

Ex-CIA Agent John Kiriakou on the CIA’s Most Successful Lying Techniques

The host described it as a brandnew, fascinating read and mentioned looking at a copy during the interview.

Well, he has written a brand new book on what he learned serving for so long as an operations officer at CIA. And it's called The Ultimate Guide to CIA Skills, Tactics and Techniques. And it's a fascinating read.

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The Guns of August

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman

Mentioned 3 days ago

WAR UPDATE: Military Insider Gives Terrifying Prediction & Reveals How Unprepared America Truly Is

The book was cited as a famous example of a work that warned about the descent into a world war, drawing a parallel to the current situation.

the run, Barbara Tuckman's famous book, The Guns of August, where we almost fell into the First World War.

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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Charlie Mackesy

Mentioned 6 days ago

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters on 9/11, JFK, Gaza, and Why the Israel Lobby Is Trying to Destroy Him

The book was highlighted as a beautiful illustrated work by Charlie Mackesy, described as a great cartoonstyle book.

Charlie McKesey, who's an artist I know in England, he wrote a great book. It's a sort of cartoon but it's a book and it's called The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse is the name of this book.

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9/11 and Terrorist Travel

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks

Mentioned 6 days ago

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters on 9/11, JFK, Gaza, and Why the Israel Lobby Is Trying to Destroy Him

The report was mentioned as a bound book that could be bought, but the guest admitted he had not read it.

the 9-11 commission report was written before the inquest into what happened on 9-11, so it's fake. Philip Zelikow did that, we know that.

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1984

George Orwell

Mentioned 1 week ago

Whistleblower Reveals the Largest Mass Surveillance Operation in History and the Coming Slave State

The hosts described it as a classic dystopian novel often assigned in school, noting its prescient depiction of pervasive state surveillance and the loss of privacy.

If you're over 40, you probably were assigned the George Orwell novel 1984, not written in 1984, written in 1949 right after the Second World War, and it is famously a picture of the dystopian future where the state controls everything.

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Confessions

Bishop of Hippo Augustine, Saint

Mentioned 1 week ago

Jay Dyer: Demons in Hollywood, CIA, Secret Societies, Lone Gunmen, Epstein & Attacks on Christianity

He recalled that his college classes only covered Augustine's Confessions from the first millennium of Christianity.

I know that when I went to college, the only thing that we talked about from that whole period was like Augustine's Confessions and maybe one other book or two.

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Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future

Seraphim Rose

Mentioned 1 week ago

Jay Dyer: Demons in Hollywood, CIA, Secret Societies, Lone Gunmen, Epstein & Attacks on Christianity

He highlighted Seraphim Rose's Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future as a prophetic work warning about mass delusions.

Seraphim Rose ... his famous book, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future.

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The Harvest of Medieval Theology

Heiko A. Oberman

Mentioned 1 week ago

Jay Dyer: Demons in Hollywood, CIA, Secret Societies, Lone Gunmen, Epstein & Attacks on Christianity

Jay Dyer mentioned Heiko Obermann's Harvest of Medieval Theology as a scholarly work on Luther's use of nominalism.

There's a great book by Heiko Obermann, it's called Harvest of Medieval Theology.

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The Rosicrucian Enlightenment (Routledge Classics)

Frances Yates

Mentioned 1 week ago

Jay Dyer: Demons in Hollywood, CIA, Secret Societies, Lone Gunmen, Epstein & Attacks on Christianity

He cited Frances Yates' Rosicrucian Enlightenment as an influential study of secret societies and their impact on the Enlightenment.

There's a great book by Dame Frances Yates called Rosicrucian Enlightenment.

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A Brief History of the Future

Jacques Attali

Mentioned 1 week ago

Jay Dyer: Demons in Hollywood, CIA, Secret Societies, Lone Gunmen, Epstein & Attacks on Christianity

He referred to Jacques Attali's Brief History of the Future as a key text describing global governance and future societal trends.

There's a great book by Jacques Attali called Brief History of the Future.

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Perennial Philosophy

Aldous Huxley

Mentioned 1 week ago

Jay Dyer: Demons in Hollywood, CIA, Secret Societies, Lone Gunmen, Epstein & Attacks on Christianity

He noted Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy as an overlooked work that discusses a universal spiritual truth.

He wrote another book people don't know about called The Perennial Philosophy.

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Barack Obama

Dreams from My Father

A Story of Race and Inheritance

Sage Steele discussed Barack Obama's book, commenting on his decision to identify as Black despite his biracial heritage. She noted the contrast between Obama's public identity and his own personal experience.

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Why does Barack Obama call himself black when he's actually biracial? He's as white as he is black.

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Sage Steele discussed Barack Obama's book, commenting on his decision to identify as Black despite his biracial heritage. She noted the contrast between Obama's public identity and his own personal experience.

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Why does Barack Obama call himself black when he's actually biracial? He's as white as he is black.

He wrote a book about them. Oh yeah, I'm not criticizing, I'm saying these are the facts.

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Tom Wolfe

The Bonfire of the Vanities

A Novel

It was instrumental in helping Jordan Belfort learn how to write while he was in prison; he used it as a textbook to improve his writing skills by modeling the author's style.

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I go to the prison library and I stumble upon a book called bonfire of the vanities by Tom Wolfe. I pick up this book and I'm like, Oh my God, I want to write like this. So I plowed through the book a...

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It was instrumental in helping Jordan Belfort learn how to write while he was in prison; he used it as a textbook to improve his writing skills by modeling the author's style.

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I go to the prison library and I stumble upon a book called bonfire of the vanities by Tom Wolfe. I pick up this book and I'm like, Oh my God, I want to write like this. So I plowed through the book and then I started with the yellow highlight and I use this book like a textbook. And I taught myself to write by modeling Tom Wolfe.

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George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia

Jack Posobiec mentioned Orwell's book, highlighting how his experiences in the Spanish Civil War profoundly altered his worldview.

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But Orwell actually comes out better than most in the wash. It changed his life. He was shot in the throat on sentry duty. Wrote a wonderful book about it, in which he doesn't mention being shot, I do...

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Jack Posobiec mentioned Orwell's book, highlighting how his experiences in the Spanish Civil War profoundly altered his worldview.

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But Orwell actually comes out better than most in the wash. It changed his life. He was shot in the throat on sentry duty. Wrote a wonderful book about it, in which he doesn't mention being shot, I don't think, but called Homage to Catalonia.

Great book, but it changes his worldview completely.

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Phyllis Schlafly

A Choice Not an Echo

Updated and Expanded 50th Anniversary Edition

The book was cited as a work Phyllis Schlafly wrote in 1964, and it was referenced while discussing her influence and career.

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I worked for Phyllis Schlafly. Yep. Right. And so when she wrote A Choice Not an Echo in 1964 and all the way through her career, ...

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The book was cited as a work Phyllis Schlafly wrote in 1964, and it was referenced while discussing her influence and career.

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I worked for Phyllis Schlafly. Yep. Right. And so when she wrote A Choice Not an Echo in 1964 and all the way through her career, ...

Phyllis writes about 1964, what they did to, you know, Goldwater at that fight, or she writes in, she wrote about 1980 when they, you know, forced H.W. Bush on Reagan.

The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First - The Simple Way to Defeat Depression, Overcome Anxiety, and Sharpen Your Mind Cover

Mark Hyman

The UltraMind Solution

Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First - The Simple Way to Defeat Depression, Overcome Anxiety, and Sharpen Your Mind

Hyman recounted his earlier work on brain health, presenting a book that outlined strategies to protect and improve mental function.

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I wrote a book about this, The UltraMind Solution, 15 years ago.

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Hyman recounted his earlier work on brain health, presenting a book that outlined strategies to protect and improve mental function.

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I wrote a book about this, The UltraMind Solution, 15 years ago.

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail Cover

Ray Dalio

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Why Nations Succeed and Fail

Dalio referenced his own book to explain how he breaks the historical cycle into five parts, showing measures of health and stages of decline, and used it to illustrate the current stage of the United States.

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in my book, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, which I wrote about five years ago. I took and I broke that cycle into five parts of the six parts of the cycle.

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Dalio referenced his own book to explain how he breaks the historical cycle into five parts, showing measures of health and stages of decline, and used it to illustrate the current stage of the United States.

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in my book, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, which I wrote about five years ago. I took and I broke that cycle into five parts of the six parts of the cycle.

If you go in the book, how Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, you'll see a number of charts.

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Mark Wolynn

It Didn't Start with You

He referred to a book he loves called It Didn't Start With You while discussing intergenerational trauma.

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There's a book I love called It Didn't Start with You.

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He referred to a book he loves called It Didn't Start With You while discussing intergenerational trauma.

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There's a book I love called It Didn't Start with You.

The Moral Animal: Why We Are The Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Cover

Robert Wright

The Moral Animal

Why We Are The Way We Are

Dave Collum mentioned having read the book, noting it explained that selfdelusion allows people to be truthful while deceiving opponents. He later cited the book's claim about the purpose of selfdelusion in human behavior.

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I read a book called The Moral Animal.

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Dave Collum mentioned having read the book, noting it explained that selfdelusion allows people to be truthful while deceiving opponents. He later cited the book's claim about the purpose of selfdelusion in human behavior.

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I read a book called The Moral Animal.

And actually in this book, The Moral Animal, they say the reason we selfdelude is so that you can be truthful and deceive your opponent.

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Auron MacIntyre

The Total State

How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies

MacIntyre said he had written a book titled The Total State to explain the power of the managerial elite.

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I wrote a book called The Total State because I think that really encapsulates a far wider understanding of the managerial elite and the power they hold.

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MacIntyre said he had written a book titled The Total State to explain the power of the managerial elite.

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I wrote a book called The Total State because I think that really encapsulates a far wider understanding of the managerial elite and the power they hold.

Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons Cover

Kris Newby

Bitten

The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons

Kris Newby, author of "Bitten", discussed the origins of Lyme disease, suggesting a possible link to biological weapons testing near Lyme, Connecticut in the late 1960s. She detailed her research into the early outbreaks and the subsequent government secrecy surrounding the issue.

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Lyme disease is caused by a spirochetal bacteria, and you get it through a tick bite.

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Kris Newby, author of "Bitten", discussed the origins of Lyme disease, suggesting a possible link to biological weapons testing near Lyme, Connecticut in the late 1960s. She detailed her research into the early outbreaks and the subsequent government secrecy surrounding the issue.

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Lyme disease is caused by a spirochetal bacteria, and you get it through a tick bite.

The problem is it's very often misdiagnosed or diagnosed late, and that that's where the controversy comes in for the disease.

And to complicate it, a tick can transmit up to like 20 different disease-causing microbes, and so if you have like two or three or four of those in one tick bite, it creates a confusing set of symptoms that doctors have trouble diagnosing.

Well, the thing I found in my research for my book is Lyme disease wasn't a problem, a noticeable problem, until the mid-70s.

It's been The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons. And I have to say, I didn't prove that Lyme disease is a biological weapon, but I'm saying something unusual, which I think is related to the biological weapons program, had it happened in the late 60s and the government wants to cover it up.

Truths: The Future of America First Cover

Vivek Ramaswamy

Truths

The Future of America First

It was described as wonderful and transparent, detailing the author's beliefs and evolution of thought. The speaker listed ten truths from the book off the top of his head.

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God is real. There are two genders. Fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity. Reverse racism is racism. An open border is not a border. Parents determine the education of their children. Th...

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It was described as wonderful and transparent, detailing the author's beliefs and evolution of thought. The speaker listed ten truths from the book off the top of his head.

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God is real. There are two genders. Fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity. Reverse racism is racism. An open border is not a border. Parents determine the education of their children. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind. Capitalism lifts us up from poverty. There are three branches of government in the United States, not four. And the U.S. Constitution is the strongest and greatest guarantor of freedom in human history.

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Murray Rothbard

The Progressive Era

Dave Smith mentioned Murray Rothbard's book The Progressive Era, noting it as a great read about the historical period.

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There is a brilliant philosopher named Rosie Perez... It's a great book written by Murray Rothbard, called The Progressive Era.

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Dave Smith mentioned Murray Rothbard's book The Progressive Era, noting it as a great read about the historical period.

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There is a brilliant philosopher named Rosie Perez... It's a great book written by Murray Rothbard, called The Progressive Era.

Imperial Hubris: Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror Cover

Michael Scheuer

Imperial Hubris

Why the West Is Losing the War on Terror

Scheuer praised it as the best book on the terror wars of the early 2000s.

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His book, Imperial Hubris, is bar none the best book on the terror wars from that era.

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Scheuer praised it as the best book on the terror wars of the early 2000s.

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His book, Imperial Hubris, is bar none the best book on the terror wars from that era.

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Russell Kirk

The Conservative Mind

From Burke to Eliot

The hosts referenced Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind as an influential work that shaped modern conservatism.

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Russell Kirk wrote The Conservative Mind, one of the intellectual giants defining the movement.

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The hosts referenced Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind as an influential work that shaped modern conservatism.

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Russell Kirk wrote The Conservative Mind, one of the intellectual giants defining the movement.

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Ludwig von Mises

Human Action

This book was mentioned as an example of Austrian economics literature that Ron Paul found fascinating early in his study of economics and monetary policy. It was described as not a little book and one that explores why people love liberty and how human action plays a factor in economics.

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And the first campaign I ran in was purely out of just curiosity. It was in 1974. You know, the Republicans weren't doing very well in 1974. So I did it because nobody else would run. . . When I got r...

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This book was mentioned as an example of Austrian economics literature that Ron Paul found fascinating early in his study of economics and monetary policy. It was described as not a little book and one that explores why people love liberty and how human action plays a factor in economics.

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And the first campaign I ran in was purely out of just curiosity. It was in 1974. You know, the Republicans weren't doing very well in 1974. So I did it because nobody else would run. . . When I got really excited about it was when Bretton Woods broke down. You know, the Bratton Woods system. And that issue, it was just fascinating with me because the monetary issue was there. And I would look at all the literature. It turned out that what I was reading was Austrian economics, free market economics, and monetary policy. And to me, it's so exciting. It's because the other economic systems are pretty sterile. And they're pretty boring where Austrian economics takes into the factor of Human Action. Of course, that's Mises' book, Human Action.

And I remember one of the books I started when I got involved in economics was Human Action. And that's not a little book, you know.

Dereliction of Duty : Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam Cover

H. R. McMaster

Dereliction of Duty

Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam

It was noted that H.R.McMaster authored Dereliction of Duty, a book describing how Vietnamera generals failed to inform President Lyndon Johnson that they could not successfully conduct the war.

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H.R.McMaster wrote a book called Dereliction of Duty about how the generals in Vietnam did not tell Lyndon Johnson they couldn't successfully prosecute that war.

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It was noted that H.R.McMaster authored Dereliction of Duty, a book describing how Vietnamera generals failed to inform President Lyndon Johnson that they could not successfully conduct the war.

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H.R.McMaster wrote a book called Dereliction of Duty about how the generals in Vietnam did not tell Lyndon Johnson they couldn't successfully prosecute that war.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald

He recalled that Fitzgerald wrote the novel This Side of Paradise while at Princeton.

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He wrote This Side of Paradise, you know, which Princeton still sort of exalts over as its most romantic portrayal.

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He recalled that Fitzgerald wrote the novel This Side of Paradise while at Princeton.

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He wrote This Side of Paradise, you know, which Princeton still sort of exalts over as its most romantic portrayal.

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Mike Davis

City of Quartz

Excavating the Future of Los Angeles (Haymarket Series)

The hosts identified it as a "crazy nihilistic book" that contains an essay titled "Let Malibu Burn," using it to illustrate a radical left perspective on the fires.

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the most articulate advocate of that view is a Marxist named Mike Davis who wrote this book called City of Quartz. It's a crazy nihilistic book, but he had an essay and also it's a ch...

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The hosts identified it as a "crazy nihilistic book" that contains an essay titled "Let Malibu Burn," using it to illustrate a radical left perspective on the fires.

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the most articulate advocate of that view is a Marxist named Mike Davis who wrote this book called City of Quartz. It's a crazy nihilistic book, but he had an essay and also it's a chapter in that book called Let Malibu Burn.

City of Courts, the Mike Davis book. It was a very fashionable book to read in places like Pacific Palisades and Hollywood and Santa Monica and Venice.

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