Books Archive
21 Jan 2013
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
For an End of the Show clip, Dvorak played an interview of Professor David Nasaw explaining Joe Kennedy's decision to have his daughter Rosemary receive a lobotomy.
22 Dec 2012
We Need to Talk About Kevin
In NA 471, Adam played a BBC interview with Lionel Shriver the author of We Need to Talk About Kevin.
09 Dec 2012
End of Marvelous
In NA 467, Adam read a donation message from Andrew Jones which announced his new “trashy epic novel using memes to unite instead of divide us and as much NLP that a novice can muster” called the End of Marvelous.
09 Dec 2012
Thinking Mom’s Revolution
During NA 467’s producer donation segment, a producer thanked Adam for the Karma and now his wife’s book, Thinking Mom’s Revolution was picked up and will be published next year. Look out for it!
26 Nov 2012
War Is a Racket
During NA 462, John Dvorak mentioned Smedley Butler and his book, War Is a Racket. John didn't quite get the title right, instead calling it War is Bunk, then Adam started coming up with humorous variations like War is Bogative...
23 Nov 2012
A Gitmo Nation Christmas Carol
No Agenda Show Producer Scott McKenzie has written another No Agenda inspired novel - this time, it's the holiday themed story, A Gitmo Nation Christmas Carol.
27 Oct 2012
Frugal Gourmet
While discussing accused British pedophile and TV personality Jimmy Savile, John Dvorak mused about former PBS TV chef, pastor and cookbook author Jeff Smith, better known as the Frugal Gourmet in the 1990's.
20 Oct 2012
Bushido
While discussing the film Flowers of War, and the Japanese occupation of China, Dvorak recommended the book Bushido which said came out in the 1940's. There are many book with this title which translates to the Way of the Warrior
12 Sep 2012
Das Kapital
John brought up the great writings of Marx and Lenin during episode #442. Das Kapital by Karl Marx, was written to explain Marxist theory and critique capitalism.
07 Sep 2012
No Easy Day
No Easy Day is the controversial new book by a member of the US Navy's SEAL Team Six, which allegedly killed Osama Bin Laden during a raid of his Abbottabad compound.
03 Sep 2012
Life and Death in Shanghai
During NA 440 Adam was discussing how he purchased Gordon Sinclair's It Can Happen Here from Amazon. Dvorak then recommended Life and Death In Shanghai for another story about life in a totalitarian state
01 Sep 2012
John Dos Passos – U.S.A. Trilogy
Adam is surprised at the amount of flak he was receiving for his controversial moon landing theories. This led to a discussion on how everyone is expected to have certain beliefs or they'll be silenced. This in turn brought up a list of books, 1984, It Can Happen Here, then author John Dos Passos
01 Sep 2012
1984
John Dvorak briefly mentioned 1984 when he was discussing fascist, authoritarian societies where you have to have approved opinions.
01 Jul 2012
Global Hawk: Endless Possibilities
Dvorak reported during NA 420, that a show Producer sent him info on Grumman's new comic book entitled Global Hawk: Endless Possiblities. Dvorak says the comic book tells a story about a douchebag looking dad with his kids at an air show.
05 Jun 2012
The Amateur
During NA 413's discussion about Obama, drones and the "capture/kill mission" of Osama Bin Laden - Valerie Jarrett came up and the new book about her called Amateur...
29 Apr 2012
Criminal Profiling
This book was mentioned in n NA 396, during a discussion on autism, its causes and the drugging of kids. John compared the way these autistic kids are defined reminded him of the book, Criminal Profiling...
28 Apr 2012
DSM IV
According to Adam, DSM IV is the "manual for mental disease which the pharmaceutical industry uses to pay doctors to push crap on you, that you don't really need that will make you wig out!"
15 Apr 2012
Enemies: A History of the FBI
During NA 399 Adam brought up Tim Weiner's (author of Legacy of Ashes) appearance on the Jon Stewart show.
03 Apr 2012
Maphead
Maphead is a book by Ken Jennings. While discussing pipelines and northern European geography, Adam blurted out Maphead as a “great book!”. [NA 395]
27 Mar 2012
Enemies: A History of the F.B.I.
Adam is excited about reading the new book by Tim Weiner (Legacy of Ashes), about the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover. We're looking forward to Adam's book report!