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If Books Could Kill

If Books Could Kill

Auteur(s): Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
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 The airport bestsellers that captured our hearts and ruined our minds© 2025 If Books Could Kill Art Politique Sciences politiques Sciences sociales
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  • How To Win Friends And Influence People

    How To Win Friends And Influence People
    Oct 2 2025

    Live like Dale Carnegie, neg like Calvin Coolidge.

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    • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
    • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

    Sources:

    • Self-help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America
    • The Positive Thinkers
    • Age of industrial violence 1910-1915 : the activities and findings of the United States commission on industrial relations
    • Representation and Rebellion: The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914–1942
    • Dale Carnegie and the Problem of Sincerity
      New York Times review from 1937


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    1 h et 10 min
  • Thomas Chatterton Williams' "Summer of Our Discontent"

    Thomas Chatterton Williams' "Summer of Our Discontent"
    Sep 11 2025

    Peter and Michael discuss a book that's light on facts and long on sentences.

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    • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

    Sources:

    • Book Review: ‘Summer of Our Discontent,’ by Thomas Chatterton Williams
    • Police shootings database 2015-2024
    • From the archive, 22 March 1991: President Bush sickened by Rodney King case
    • Barack Obama Public Approval
    • Letter To Christopher L. Eisgruber, President Princeton University
    • Police give additional details in beating of machete-wielding man amid Dallas protest
    • In City After City, Police Mishandled Black Lives Matter Protests
    • RIOTS IN LOS ANGELES: Challenger; Nation Needs Healing, Clinton Says
    • Median household income by race and ethnicity U.S. 1967-2023
    • Majority of college students support Israel/Gaza campus protests, 1 in 10 actually participate in them
    • Thomas Chatterton Williams on Race, Identity, and “Cancel Culture”


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    1 h et 32 min
  • He's Just Not That Into You

    He's Just Not That Into You
    Jul 31 2025

    How one comedian's offhand advice launched a decent TV episode, a mediocre book and a terrible movie.

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    • Peter's other podcast, 5-4
    • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

    Sources:

    • Susan Faludi's "Backlash"
    • For Women Who Count on Men to Be Jerks
    • Bridget Jones’s Legacy
    • Single Women in Popular Culture
    • A Decade of Advice for Women and Men in the Best-Selling Self-Help Literature
    • The gendered nature of self-help
    • Single Women in Popular Culture

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each episode is well researched and entertaining. I feel like I can actually trust the information.

i love every episode

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These two have a good idea, Someone should review the self- help books. I'm sure there are a lot good criticism and some good humor, but that person should be someone we can learn from.

These two are not that person. They swear constantly. They show you nothing to be admired. They go out of their way to show that they are no better than the average man in the street. (Perhaps more like the man in the gutter. )

Good in Theory

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