Guest on Lex Fridman Podcast
6 books recommended · 2 episodes
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“That was his second book, was called The Doomsday Machine, Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. And he had liberated a bunch of documents about nuclear war as well.”
Why: Scott recommends it as part of Ellsberg's important work.
The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg
Guest on Lex Fridman Podcast#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
“as the great Gary Webb reported in the Dark Alliance series and in his great book, Dark Alliance, and many other great journalists as well, that the CIA had a massive operation…”
Why: Scott cites it as a source for the CIA's drug operations.
Dark Alliance by Gary Webb
Guest on Lex Fridman Podcast#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
“I beg people to read. It's called Secrets, a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, and then also the Doomsday Machine.”
Why: Scott explicitly begs people to read it.
Secrets by Daniel Ellsberg
Guest on Lex Fridman Podcast#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
“Trita Parsi shows in his absolutely excellent book, Treacherous Alliance, which if you haven't read that, you'll absolutely love it. I'm so good.”
Why: Scott calls it a masterpiece and highly recommends it.
Treacherous Alliance by Trita Parsi
Guest on Lex Fridman Podcast#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
“There's this great book by Michael Scheuer, who was the former chief of the CIA's bin Laden unit. It's called Imperial Hubris.”
Why: Scott notes it makes the reasons for bin Laden's actions very clear.
Imperial Hubris by Michael Scheuer
Guest on Lex Fridman Podcast#478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex
“Well, that's almost always a reference to Beirut, 1983, which you can read in the book By Way of Deception by Viktor Ostrovsky, the former Mossad officer, that the Israelis knew that they were building that truck bomb to bomb the Marines with…”
By Way of Deception by Claire Hoy
Guest on Lex Fridman Podcast#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East
Their own books, or books they discussed with the author. Not counted as recommendations.
“And I show in my book enough already. I have a solid dozen sources. Enough already. Thank you. I have a solid dozen sources, including Michael Gordon's own colleague, Alyssa Rubin at the New York Times…”
Enough Already by Scott Horton
Guest on Lex Fridman Podcast#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East