#420 – Annie Jacobsen

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #420:

  1. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base by Annie Jacobsen
  2. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America by Annie Jacobsen
  3. The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency by Annie Jacobsen
  4. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis by Annie Jacobsen
  5. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins by Annie Jacobsen
  6. Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
  7. The Cold and the Dark: The World After Nuclear War by Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Sagan, Donald Kennedy, Walter Orr Roberts
  8. In the Name of Conscience: The Testament of a Soviet Secret Agent by Nikolai Khokhlov
  9. Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs by Albert Speer

Annie Jacobsen is an American investigative journalist, author, and a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist. She writes for and produces television programs, including Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan for Amazon Studios, and Clarice for CBS. She was a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times Magazine from 2009 until 2012. Wikipedia


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