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Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the 1A podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 6 episodes
In the Company of Heroes
Michael J. Durant
#2 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Room Where It Happened
A White House Memoir
John Bolton
#3 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Real Self-Care, Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included
Pooja Lakshman
#4 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Wild Robot
Peter Brown
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Murdoch's World
The Last of the Old Media Empires
David Folkenflik
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
How Do You Feel?
One Doctor's Search for Humanity in Medicine
Jessi Gold, MD, MS
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Wicked
The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Gregory Maguire
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Presidents and the People, Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It
Corey Brettschneider
#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Anti-Democratic, Inside the Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
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David Daly
#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Wannabe
Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me
Aisha Harris
#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Comfort of Crows, A Backyard Year
Margaret Rinkle
#13 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Whiskarology
The Culture of Hair in 19th Century America
Sarah Gold McBride
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Competitive Authoritarianism, Hybrid Regimes After the Cold War
Stephen Levitsky
Lucan A. Way
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
When It All Burns
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Jordan Thomas
#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Shade, the Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Sam Block
#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Jaws
Peter Benchley
#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Eating to Extinction, the world's rarest foods and why we need to save them
Dan Saladino
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes
You Didn't Hear This From Me, Mostly True Notes on Gossip
Kelsey McKinney
