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A Book with Legs — 133 episodes
Adrian Wooldridge - The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism
Bryan Burrough - The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild
Liaquat Ahamed - 1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World
David Williams - The William E. Boeing Story: A Gift of Flight
Alex Wright - Empire of Ink
The Smead Book List - Summer 2026
The Long View: Defining Intelligence
Howard Gardner - Frames of Mind
Justin Baer - House of Fidelity
Andrew Seth Meyer: To Rule All Under Heaven
Gaurav Suri - The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines
Jason Bardi - The Great Math War: How Three Brilliant Minds Fought for the Foundations of Mathematics
The Smead Book List - Spring Book List
Kathryn Paige Harden - Original Sin: On The Genetics of Vice, The Problem of Blame, And the Future of Forgiveness
Tom Griffiths - Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind
Amy Gamerman - The Crazies
Tim Wu - The Age of Extraction
Kenneth R. Rosen - Polar War
Trent Preszler - Evergreen
The Smead Book List - Winter 2025
David McWilliams - The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
Charles Murray - Taking Religion Seriously
James Grant - Friends Until The End
Brian Potter - The Origins of Efficiency
Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli - Inflation
Amitav Acharya - The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West
The Smead Book List - Fall 2025
Toby Stuart - Anointed
Alok Sama - The Money Trap
James Romm - Plato and the Tyrant
Graham Taylor - Imperial Standard
Duncan Mavin - Meltdown: Greed, Scandal, and the Collapse of Credit Suisse
Stephen Clapham - The Smart Money Method
The Smead Book List - Summer 2025
Jill Eicher - Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
Enda Kenny - Exclusive Interview
Padraic Scanlan - Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
Russell Shorto - Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events that Created New York and Shaped America
Kyle Paoletta - American Oasis
Amar Bhide - Uncertainty and Enterprise: Venturing Beyond the Known
Mary Flannery - Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard
The Smead Book List - Spring 2025
Eric Metaxas - Bonhoeffer
Lucy Santos - Chain Reactions
Max Frumes - The Caesars Palace Coup
Doug Terreson - Can't Deny It
Vaudine England - Fortune's Bazaar
Adrian Tinniswood - The Power and The Glory
The Smead Book List - Winter 2024
John Oller - White Shoe
Brad Klontz - Start Thinking Rich
Brett Gardner - Buffett's Early Investments
Wilbur Ross - Risks and Returns
Michael Craig - The Professor, The Banker, and the Suicide King
Megan Gorman - All The Presidents' Money
The Smead Book List - Fall 2024
Dan Slater - The Incorruptibles
Anne Murphy - Virtuous Bankers
Richard Blakemore - Enemies of All
Steve Green - This Beautiful Book
Eric Weiner - Ben & Me
Nicky Hayes - A Little History of Psychology
The Smead Book List - Summer 2024
Martin Goodman - Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World
David Bellos - Who Owns This Sentence
Bryan Burrough - Barbarians at the Gate
Rob Copeland - The Fund
Benji Backer - The Conservative Environmentalist
Jennifer Burns - Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
The Smead Book List - Spring 2024
Ekaterina Pravilova - The Ruble
Harold James - Seven Crashes
Chris Roush - The Future of Business Journalism
George Gilder - Life After Capitalism
Andrew Pettegree - Book At War
General David Petraeus - Conflict
The Smead Book List - Winter 2023
Vikash Yadav - Liberalism's Last Man
Senator Phil Gramm - The Myth of American Inequality
Daniel Schulman - The Money Kings
Lori Garver - Escaping Gravity
Randall Sullivan - Graveyard of the Pacific
David Zaslav - Exclusive Interview
Chris Yogerst - The Warner Brothers
The Smead Book List - Fall 2023
Diana B. Henriques - Taming the Street
Peter Stark - Gallop Toward the Sun
Matt Lindland - Exclusive Interview
Michael Thomsen - Cage Kings
Greg Steinmetz - The Richest Man Who Ever Lived
Brett Scott - Cloudmoney
Barry Strauss - The War That Made the Roman Empire
The Smead Book List - Summer 2023
Dror Goldberg - Easy Money
Henry Sanderson - Volt Rush
Robert Pickering - Blue Bood
Mark Mills - The Cloud Revolution
Margaret O'Mara - The Code - Part 2
Margaret O'Mara - The Code - Part 1
The Smead Book List - Spring 2023
Shannon K. O'Neil - The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter
Perry Mehrling - Money and Empire
Bob Pisani – Shut Up and Keep Talking
Amity Shlaes - Great Society - Live from Smead Investor Oasis
Gale Pooley - Superabundance
Robert Hagstrom - Warren Buffett: Inside the Ultimate Money Mind
The Smead Book List - Winter 2022
Father Robert Sirico - The Economics of the Parables
Richard Oldfield - Simple But Not Easy
Spencer Jakab - The Revolution That Wasn't
Greg Steinmetz - American Rascal
Jeff Nussbaum - Undelivered
Sir Howard Davies - The Chancellors
Helen Rappaport – After the Romanovs
Peter Doran - Breaking Rockefeller
The Smead Book List - Fall 2022
Matthew Bernstein - George Hearst: Silver King of the Gilded Age
Scott McNealy on 'High Noon' authored by Karen Southwick
Mary Childs - The Bond King
Ed Larson - To the Edges of the Earth
William Quinn and John D. Turner – Boom and Bust
George Gilder – Life After Google
The Smead Book List - Summer 2022
Lauren Templeton – Investing the Templeton Way
Thomas Morris - The Matter of the Heart
Robert Hagstrom - Investing: The Last Liberal Art
Kevin Coldiron – The Rise of Carry
Peter Stark - Astoria
Mark Mills – The Bottomless Well
Amity Shlaes – The Forgotten Man
Lisa Napoli – Up All Night
Dinny McMahon – China’s Great Wall of Debt
Greg Zuckerman – The Frackers