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The Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis
Graham Allison
“I encourage people out there”
“and I encourage people out there this is this is a brutal text we were forced to read it in Graduate School uh the essence of decision by Graham Alison I'm so thankful we did”— Saagar Enjeti
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The Loudest Voice in the Room
Gabriel Sherman
“that book changed my life”
“Roger alses who is a genius shout out to the loudest voice in the room by Gabriel Sherman that book changed my life too”— Saagar Enjeti
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Coming Apart
Charles Murray
“one of my favorite books”
“one of my favorite books is called coming apart by Charles Murray uh and that book really really underscores how the cultural milu that people swim in”— Saagar Enjeti
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The Origins of Woke
Richard Hanania
“two books I can recommend”
“so two books I can recommend one is called the origins of woke that's by Richard hanania”— Saagar Enjeti
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The Age of Entitlement
Christopher Caldwell
“two books I can recommend”
“there's another one by the age of entitlement by Christopher Caldwell and they make a very strong case that Caldwell in particular”— Saagar Enjeti
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Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
Jim Webb
“the reason I recommend that book”
“Jim Webb in that book what a badass fascinating book my God warn fighting amazing how the Scots Irish Shaped America”— Saagar Enjeti
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What It Takes
Richard Ben Cramer (inferred)
“a book recommendation”
“so a book recommendation it's called what it takes and uh It Was Written in 1988 and there's actually a long chapter on Joe Biden”— Saagar Enjeti
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Freedom From Fear
David M. Kennedy
“book recommendation”
“again book recommendation Freedom From Fear by David Kennedy is about uh the Roosevelt years”— Saagar Enjeti
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Obama's Wars
Bob Woodward
“I highly encourage people to read this book”
“another example of this is a book called Obama's War by Bob Woodward I highly encourage people to read this book”— Saagar Enjeti
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Master of the Senate
Robert Caro
“one of my favorite books”
“one of my favorite books Master of the Senate uh by Robert Caro part of the LBJ series the Senate as an institution it reveres Independence”— Saagar Enjeti
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The Age of Acrimony
Jon Grinspan (inferred)
“I love that book I cannot recommend it enough”
“age of acrimony oh my God I love that book I cannot recommend it enough it is so important”— Saagar Enjeti
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The Unwinding
George Packer
“one of the books that I recommended”
“one of the books that I recommended called the unwinding by George Packer he actually talks about Peter teal there”— Saagar Enjeti
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Truman
David McCullough
“I highly recommend it everybody should read it”
“David McCulla book I highly recommend it everybody should read it Truman Truman loved his wife I think that's really awesome”— Saagar Enjeti
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
“fantastic”
“reading jenus Khan and then making uh the modern world yeah Jack Weatherford fantastic he's coming on is he yeah amazing”— Lex Fridman
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Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tom O'Neill (inferred)
“fantastic book”
“if you read that fantastic book The Tom O'Neal book about the Manson Murders I mean again you know it took him 20 years to write that book”— Saagar Enjeti
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Hardcore History
Dan Carlin
“the goat”
“shout out to Dan Carlin the goat the OG Dan... his ghost of the OS front on the Eastern front of the Nazi war against Russia fundamentally changed my view of warfare forever”— Saagar Enjeti
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Making Sense
Sam Harris
“everybody should listen to The Making Sense podcast”
“I deeply respect him everybody should listen to The Making Sense podcast it always makes me think uh it's definitely in the rotation for me”— Saagar Enjeti
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The Loudest Voice
Showtime (inferred)
“if you have the chance you should watch it”
“Russell Crow does an amazing job of delivering that line in the showtime miniseries so if you have the chance you should watch it”— Saagar Enjeti
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Paths of Glory
Stanley Kubrick (inferred)
“such an underrated film”
“I watched that World War I movie of his the one from the 50s that such an underrated film I I feel like people don't app”— Saagar Enjeti
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Hillbilly Elegy
J.D. Vance
“JD Vance's book Hill beology I think was really important for a lot of American Elites who were like how do these support people support Trump”— Saagar Enjeti
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Why England Slept
John F. Kennedy
“who wrote a book in 1939 called why England slept which to this day is considered a a a text”— Saagar Enjeti
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Melting Pot or Civil War?
Reihan Salam
“my friend rhan Salam wrote a book called Melting Pot or Civil War and one of the most important parts about that book is the history of mass migration”— Saagar Enjeti
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Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. 2)
Robert Caro
“as he began to investigate lynen Johnson's 1948 senate election he realizes in real time how rigged and stolen it was”— Saagar Enjeti
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
“Decline and fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon actually your episode on Rome was fantastic people should go listen to that”— Saagar Enjeti
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Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk (inferred)
“it's the famous Fight Club quote it's like on a long enough timeline the survival rate for everything drops to zero”— Saagar Enjeti
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Apple Vision Pro
Apple
“as much as I love my Vision Pro don't get me wrong I think you just admitted that you're part of a cult”— Saagar Enjeti
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