Advise and Consent, The Power Broker, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, The Creature from Jeykll Island (maybe politics adjacent), and Gore Vidal's United States (also pulled from a Steve Recommendation) Thank you again for your content! Always a joy!
The one book that I read on the Nixon administration was _The Palace Guard_ by Dan Rather and Gary Paul Gates. The book, which I found interesting, mainly covered Nixon’s first term, and the cliques within the administration.
All the King’s Men is one of my favorite novels of all time. A favorite nonfiction on the same subject/era is Louisiana Hayride. And The Last Hurrah: oh my. Just marvelous.
Interesting choices. I hadn’t heard of most of them before this video. Congratulations on surpassing 17.9k subscribers. 👏👏👏 Looking forward to the Q&A, probably sometime in the next two weeks. 😺✌️
I'm curious about your thoughts on: Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems (Thomas Ferguson) Or The Social Costs of Business Enterprise (Karl William Kapp)
Absolutely fascinating video. My moral and political consciousness started with the trial of Adolph Eichmann when I was in grade school, and continued through Watergate and the Vietnam War, and has never stopped. I wonder if you'd be interested in doing a video about the best political and editorial artists. From Kelly to Herblock, and one of my personal favorites, Brad Holland. I think your viewers might enjoy your take on the subject. Just my two cents.
So what do you think of The Making of the President by Theodore White and The Brethren by Woodward and Armstrong especially it's account of The United States vs Nixon in light of the Courts presidential immunity ruling this year since we all know the Supreme Court is riddled with political intrigue?
The Power Broker by Caro and Plunkett of Tammany Hall by Riordan are all the books you need to learn about US domestic politics, especially in NY. The amount of corruption is astounding and still continues unfortunately to this very day, thanks to the Democratic “machine”.
Because Steve is a hardcore ideological leftist and Elon is not, this is a prime example of ideological capture. Even someone as intelligent and well read as Steve has fallen in lockstep with left wing propaganda.
I have Clinton’s My Life and never got passed the first part, yawn! Thank you so much for suggesting to move on ti his time and Washington and giving permission to do so. FYI my mother was a political junkie and I have buttons from McCarthy to McGovern to Ferraro to Clinton in a collection I inherited. I cannot imagine what she would be thinking about all this now!
As you're on the subject, let's get some things straight: the media is presenting Kamala 24/7 as a black candidate. She isn't. She's half East Indian, half Irish-Jamaican and her fam on the paternal side were unrepentant slave owners vehemently opposed to the abolition of slavery in the entire British Empire. I suppose the founding fathers were slave holders too, so she got some 'plantocratic' cred to be VP material. At a time when there's growing momentum for reparations (reparative justice) in the US, the Caribbean and Great Britain. Three states are mounting legal challenges to her apparent party nomination, since removing a presidential candidate from the ballot isn't automatic in some areas. There's some legal tangle there. When America had the opportunity to elect its first woman president (Hillary Clinton) back in 2016 with the popular vote (which she won), 53 percent of women voters chose Trump over Clinton.
My great great grandfather was an officer in the CSA and a slave holder. I detest everything he stood for. He was a traitor by the definition of treason in the Constitution and he enslaved people for his own personal enrichment. I'm glad he lost. Just because someone has an ancestor who was basically evil doesn't mean his descendants are evil
Surely a person whose paternal family ancestry includes both slaves and slave owners is in a unique position to develop a very nuanced set of political beliefs and policies.
I have both slave owning relatives and relatives who were slaves. What’s your point ? I do appreciate your attempt at preciseness with her ethnic background I suppose
Fantastic! Thank you, Steve! Long-awaited video. How can I leave 1000 likes??
Advise and Consent, The Power Broker, Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, The Creature from Jeykll Island (maybe politics adjacent), and Gore Vidal's United States (also pulled from a Steve Recommendation) Thank you again for your content! Always a joy!
I’d love to see a Vietnam Era starter kit. The Caro biography of Johnson has been on my list since I read The Power Broker, but I’d love more recs
Greetings from Brazil for another great starter kit! American politics interest me so much
The one book that I read on the Nixon administration was _The Palace Guard_ by Dan Rather and Gary Paul Gates. The book, which I found interesting, mainly covered Nixon’s first term, and the cliques within the administration.
STEve....thank you for your starter kit series. very wise choices and greta ideas of how to delve into a topic. Please keep
'em coming.
All the King’s Men is one of my favorite novels of all time. A favorite nonfiction on the same subject/era is Louisiana Hayride.
And The Last Hurrah: oh my. Just marvelous.
As always, THANK YOU! Added a few to my Steve Reads list!
Interesting choices. I hadn’t heard of most of them before this video.
Congratulations on surpassing 17.9k subscribers. 👏👏👏
Looking forward to the Q&A, probably sometime in the next two weeks.
😺✌️
I'm curious about your thoughts on:
Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems (Thomas Ferguson)
Or
The Social Costs of Business Enterprise (Karl William Kapp)
I loved Marathon, thanks to your recommending it way back when.
Absolutely fascinating video. My moral and political consciousness started with the trial of Adolph Eichmann when I was in grade school, and continued through Watergate and the Vietnam War, and has never stopped. I wonder if you'd be interested in doing a video about the best political and editorial artists. From Kelly to Herblock, and one of my personal favorites, Brad Holland. I think your viewers might enjoy your take on the subject. Just my two cents.
Democracy in America was actually a pretty easy read.
So what do you think of The Making of the President by Theodore White and The Brethren by Woodward and Armstrong especially it's account of The United States vs Nixon in light of the Courts presidential immunity ruling this year since we all know the Supreme Court is riddled with political intrigue?
The Power Broker by Caro and Plunkett of Tammany Hall by Riordan are all the books you need to learn about US domestic politics, especially in NY. The amount of corruption is astounding and still continues unfortunately to this very day, thanks to the Democratic “machine”.
I LOVEDMarathon. It really is an amazing book.
Two thumbs up for All the President's Men!
Steve, why is the biography about Elon Musk evil?
Because Steve is a hardcore ideological leftist and Elon is not, this is a prime example of ideological capture. Even someone as intelligent and well read as Steve has fallen in lockstep with left wing propaganda.
50 years ago today, Nixon complied with a Supreme Court order and released the subpoenaed White House tapes to the public. PS Gary Wills is 90
I have Clinton’s My Life and never got passed the first part, yawn!
Thank you so much for suggesting to move on ti his time and Washington and giving permission to do so.
FYI my mother was a political junkie and I have buttons from McCarthy to McGovern to Ferraro to Clinton in a collection I inherited. I cannot imagine what she would be thinking about all this now!
Cato, Cicero, and Seneca, all great statesmen, could do nothing but watch.
No Gore Vidal? Did I miss something?
Nixon 😈 😈 👿
The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen. The Secret Knowledge by David Mamet. Anything by Thomas Sowell.
As you're on the subject, let's get some things straight: the media is presenting Kamala 24/7 as a black candidate. She isn't. She's half East Indian, half Irish-Jamaican and her fam on the paternal side were unrepentant slave owners vehemently opposed to the abolition of slavery in the entire British Empire. I suppose the founding fathers were slave holders too, so she got some 'plantocratic' cred to be VP material. At a time when there's growing momentum for reparations (reparative justice) in the US, the Caribbean and Great Britain. Three states are mounting legal challenges to her apparent party nomination, since removing a presidential candidate from the ballot isn't automatic in some areas. There's some legal tangle there. When America had the opportunity to elect its first woman president (Hillary Clinton) back in 2016 with the popular vote (which she won), 53 percent of women voters chose Trump over Clinton.
Yea, no, she's definitely black. Jamaicans are sub Saharan and are considered black.
My great great grandfather was an officer in the CSA and a slave holder. I detest everything he stood for. He was a traitor by the definition of treason in the Constitution and he enslaved people for his own personal enrichment. I'm glad he lost. Just because someone has an ancestor who was basically evil doesn't mean his descendants are evil
Surely a person whose paternal family ancestry includes both slaves and slave owners is in a unique position to develop a very nuanced set of political beliefs and policies.
I have both slave owning relatives and relatives who were slaves. What’s your point ? I do appreciate your attempt at preciseness with her ethnic background I suppose
@@stantonsullivan-readdelillo Nah. I don't get his point at all. What exactly is he implying?