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The Manticore
Robertson Davies ISBN 2228882194
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Robertson Davies ISBN 2228882194
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This book by Robertson Davies came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Vejas Liulevicius. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Les lecteurs de Cinquième emploi retrouveront ici des personnages qu'ils connaissent déjà. Le héros est un avocat traumatisé par la mort mystérieuse de son père. Il se rend à Zurich pour se faire psychanalyser. Son analyste est une jolie femme et il découvrira (p. 179), qu'il en est tombé amoureux ...
“the Deford Trilogy fifth business the Manticore world of Wonders and he got a really nice beard”— Vejas Liulevicius
The guest here is Vejas Liulevicius: A historian specializing in Germany and Eastern Europe who has lectured extensively on the rise, reign, and fall of communism. He grew up in a Lithuanian American family in Chicago and authored 'The German Myth of the East' (Oxford University Press). Historian Vejas Liulevicius traces the ideas and atrocities of communism and Nazism, from Marx to Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and modern Russia.
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