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The Power Broker
Robert Caro
“does an amazing job of end of chapter cliffhangers”
“one of the books sitting over there the power br does an amazing job of end of chapter cliffhangers that's I think Robert Caro over there”— Tim Ferriss
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My Early Life
Winston Churchill
“you recommend that young people read my early life ... there are life lessons contained within it that perhaps might help young people”
“it's my impression that you recommend that young people read my early life and that there are life lessons contained within it”— Tim Ferriss
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Eyeless in Gaza
Aldous Huxley
“I'm a huge admirer of Huxley ... wonderful books”
“I'm a huge admirer of Huxley Eyeless in Gaza and and obviously Brave New world and so on wonderful books”— Andrew Roberts
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
“I'm a huge admirer of Huxley ... wonderful books”
“I'm a huge admirer of Huxley Eyeless in Gaza and and obviously Brave New world and so on wonderful books”— Andrew Roberts
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The Gathering Storm
Winston Churchill
“the gathering storm wonderful book”
“the first volume of his war memoirs the gathering storm wonderful book and he's referring to the day that he became prime minister”— Andrew Roberts
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The Map and the Territory
Michel Houellebecq
“a few writers like Michel Welbeck who is just so great that you have to sort of read whatever he brings out”
“we going to start with one the map and the territory of Michelle elbec ... it's a sort of satire on French intellectual customs”— Andrew Roberts
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Walking with Destiny
Andrew Roberts
“question about the subtitle of your by refound church which I believe is walk with destiny you mentioned this holy fire”— Tim Ferriss
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Napoleon the Great
Andrew Roberts
“for my Napoleon book he's going to listen to this so I'm going to have to be as nice as possible”— Andrew Roberts
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George III (biography)
Andrew Roberts
“your last King George III I wrote a biography of him a few years ago which was which was great fun to do”— Andrew Roberts
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Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine
Andrew Roberts and David Petraeus
“is it most recent conflict that's a book I wrote with David trus and of course him being a general who's commanded armies”— Andrew Roberts
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Napoleon and his Marshals
Andrew Roberts
“I've got Napoleon and his Marshals about how the Emperor interacted with his Marshals and how the marshals interacted with each other”— Andrew Roberts
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Disraeli
Andrew Roberts
“then after that I'm doing Disraeli and he's an extraordinary character who was a complete Outsider as a Jew”— Andrew Roberts
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Secrets of Statecraft (podcast)
Andrew Roberts (Hoover Institution)
“I've got a podcast too and I called it secrets of statecraft ... it's the H institutions podcast but it's great fun to do”— Andrew Roberts
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Colossus
Niall Ferguson
“you've got a great friend of mine there Neil Ferguson writing about in his book Colossus”— Tim Ferriss
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
“it shows the hand edited works of Mary Shelly Frankenstein and all these others and I came across that if anybody wants to see a first edition”— Tim Ferriss
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Robert Goddard detective novels
Robert Goddard
“I've chosen the most complicated of all of the detective novelists trap called Robert Godard have you ever heard of Robert Godard”— Andrew Roberts
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Oliver Cromwell (second volume biography)
Ronald Hutton
“I'm just reading Ronald Hutton's second volume of his life of Oliver Cromwell which has just been published”— Andrew Roberts
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