#456 - Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #456:

1. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy
2. The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky by Simon Shuster
3. The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by John McWhorter
4. Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
5. Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum
6. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
7. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

#455 - Adam Frank

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #455:

1. The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs. Religion Debate by Adam Frank
2. Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth by Adam Frank
3. The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience by Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Thompson
4. If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens … WHERE IS EVERYBODY?: Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Stephen Webb
5. The Expanse by James S. A. Corey
6. Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
7. Who Speaks for Earth? by Carlos Ledson Miller
8. Eon by Greg Bear
9. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

#454 - Saagar Enjeti

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #454:

1. The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News-and Divided a Country by Gabriel Sherman
2. 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation by James Carville
3. Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray
4. The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics by Richard Hanania
5. The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell
6. Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by Jim Webb
7. The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World by James Burnham
8. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance
9. What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer
10. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy
11. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis by Graham Allison, Philip Zelikow
12. Why England Slept by John F. Kennedy
13. Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward
14. Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders by Reihan Salam
15. Master Of The Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
16. The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 by Jon Grinspan
17. The Populist’s Guide to 2020: A New Right and New Left are Rising by Krystal Ball, Saagar Enjeti
18. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
19. Truman by David McCullough
20. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson) by Robert A. Caro
21. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
22. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill, Dan Piepenbring
23. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

Saagar Enjeti’s Book Recommendations

#453 - Javier Milei

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #XXX:

1. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig Von Mises
2. Principles of Economics by Carl Menger
3. Time and Money: The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure by Roger W. Garrison
4. Socialism: An Economic And Sociological Analysis by Ludwig Von Mises
5. Capitalismo, socialismo y la trampa neoclásica (“Capitalism, socialism and the neoclassical trap”) by Javier Milei
6. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents by F. A. Hayek

Other authors mentioned:

• Murray Rothbard
• Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• Jesús Huerta de Soto
• Juan Ramon Rallo
• Philipp Bagus
• Walter Block
• Alberto Benegas Lynch
• Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
• Milton Friedman
• Adam Smith
• Robert Nozick
• Ayn Rand

#452 - Dario Amodei

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #452:

1. Machines of Loving Grace (Essay) by Dario Amodei

#451 - Rick Spence

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #451:

1. The Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu: Humanitarian Despotism and the Conditions of Modern Tyranny by Maurice Joly
2. The Non-Existent Manuscript: A Study of the Protocols of the Sages of Zion by Cesare G. De Michelis
3. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill, Dan Piepenbring
4. Tim Holt No. 30 “Red Mask meets Lady Doom and the Death Wheel”
5. Memoirs of an Eminence Grise by Joseph Retinger

#450 - Bernie Sanders

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #450:

1. The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie Sanders by Ari Rabin-Havt
2. It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
3. Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernie Sanders
4. Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution by Bernie Sanders

#449 - Graham Hancock

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #449:

1. Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization by Graham Hancock
2. Visionary: The Mysterious Origins of Human Consciousness by Graham Hancock
3. The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant by Graham Hancock
4. Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
5. Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge And Its Transmission Through Myth by Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechen
6. Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature by Francis Crick
7. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution by Terence McKenna
8. The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art by David Lewis-Williams

#448 - Jordan Peterson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #448:

1. We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine by Jordan B. Peterson
2. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
3. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
4. The Sacred and the Profane; The Nature of Religion by Mircea Eliade
5. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size by Tor Norretranders
6. Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships by Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam
8. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt

#447 - Cursor Team

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #447:

No books mentioned.