

Behind the Bastards
Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Behind the Bastards podcast:

#1 Mentioned in 10 episodes
Morning after the Revolution
Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

#2 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Anarchism in Latin America

#3 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The End of Policing

#4 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Debt
The First 5,000 Years

#5 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Whipping Girl
A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

#6 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Eichmann Before Jerusalem

#7 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Migra!

#8 Mentioned in 3 episodes
1984

#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
White metropolis
race, ethnicity, and religion in Dallas, 1841-2001

#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Life Less Ordinary

#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Save the Date

#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain

#13 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Jurassic Park

#14 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Pike
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

#15 Mentioned in 2 episodes
On the Origin of Species

#16 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Founders
The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley

#17 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Saucers, Spooks and Kooks

#18 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Setting the Desert on Fire

#19 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Regenesis
Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

#20 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Gunfight
the battle over the right to bear arms in America