#459 - Dylan Patel and Nathan Lambert

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #459:

1. The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim

#458 - Marc Andreessen

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #458:

1. The Ancient City by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
2. The Diversity Myth : Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus by David O. Sacks, Peter Thiel
3. Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification by Timur Kuran
4. The Power of the Powerless by Vaclav Havel
5. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
6. The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom by James Burnham
7. Decline and Fall of the American Programmer by Edward Yourdon

#457 - Jennifer Burns

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #457:

1. Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns
2. Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns
3. A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman, Anna Jacobson Schwartz
4. Business Cycles And Their Causes by Wesley Clair Mitchell
5. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents by F. A. Hayek
6. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
7. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, Binyamin Appelbaum
8. The Ethics of Competition by Frank Knight
9. We the Living by Ayn Rand
10. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
11. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
12. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

#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 #453:

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