Book · recommended on 1 episode
The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig ISBN 9780803252240
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Stefan Zweig ISBN 9780803252240
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This book by Stefan Zweig 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: guest. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
"Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was a poet, novelist, and dramatist, but it was his biographies that expressed his full genius, recreating for his international audience the Elizabethan age, the French Revolution, the great days of voyages and discoveries.
“that's one of my favorite books stefan zweig's the world of yesterday including the descriptions of what it was like trying to have sex in pre-first world war vienna”— guest
The guest here is Douglas Murray: British author and commentator known for The Madness of Crowds, The War on the West, and The Strange Death of Europe. A controversial conservative thinker who critiques what he sees as cultural Marxism and the deconstruction of Western history. Douglas Murray argues Western civilization faces a one-sided cultural assault rooted in resentment, with gratitude as the antidote.
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