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#465 - Robert Rodriguez

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #465:

1. Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player by Robert Rodriguez
2. Sin City by Frank Miller

#464 - Dave Smith

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #464:

1. Books by Ron Paul
2. On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization by Douglas Murray
3. 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris
4. Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine by Scott Horton

#463 - Douglas Murray

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #463:

1. The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
2. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity by Douglas Murra
3. On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization by Douglas Murray
4. The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell
5. Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
6. Tragic Sense of Life by Miguel De Unamuno

#462 - Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #462:

1. Abundance by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
2. Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein
3. Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction by Derek Thompson
4. On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity by Derek Thompson
5. Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer by Kamala Harris, Joan O’C. Hamilton
6. The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson
7. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

#461 - ThePrimeagen

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #461:

1. Java How to Program by Deitel Paul, Deitel Harvey
2. Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson
3. The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon
4. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

#460 - Narendra Modi

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #460:

1. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
2. Demian by Hermann Hesse
3. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
4. The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
5. Bhagavad Gita by Stephen Mitchell

#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

Note: The interview with President Zelenskyy doesn’t include book recommendations or book discussion. These titles come from Lex’s own commentary (intro + postscript) where he describes his research process and mentions specific books he read/used to prepare.