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Volume 4What are some of your favorite books?
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Katherine Friedman asks, “What are some of your favorite books?”
My favorite book series, by far, are the Dune books by Frank Herbert. There is a lot to the original Dune book that most people miss, and when you read the later books, you realize that the hero of the story is in fact, not the hero at all.
I’m a big fan of the Foundation books by Isaac Asimov.
Most of what I read is, not surprisingly, non-fiction. The list of great non-fiction books I’ve read is pretty long.
Two good ones I’ve read recently include 1491 by Charles Mann. This was the inspiration behind my episode on the Great Dying of the Americas. It tries to condense all the latest research on what exactly life was like in the Americas before Europeans arrived.
The other is The Second World Wars by Victor Davis Hanson, looks at the second world war in a larger framework looking at economic and industrial policies that all but guaranteed the outcome.
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