The Tom Woods Show, episode 956.

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Hey everybody, Tom Woods here. What books should we be reading? What are the classics? Not even

necessarily the classics, I would say. What are just the books that if you read

them, you'd learn an awful lot that would help you understand the world better and that would

buttress your arguments and fill out your knowledge? That's what I'm asking David Gordon today,

and David is, David's just ridiculously knowledgeable. If you ever have a chance to meet him in person,

you'll see what I mean. Just ask him anything in the world, and he knows the answer. He's absolutely

amazing. He holds a PhD in intellectual history from UCLA. He's the author of many books, among them

the Essential Rothbard, and he is a senior fellow of the Mises Institute. David, welcome back to the show.

Oh, hi, Tom. Glad to be back on the show. I don't know why I'm interviewing all these Mises people

when I'm going to see you all next week, and I could do it in person. But anyway, here I am doing it.

There's no rhyme or reason to what I do around here. But I had a request. I was asking people, I want to talk to David, and I've got some possible ideas, but what would

you like to hear me talk about with him?

And they said, given that you have written so many book reviews and you're such a careful

book reviewer, and in general, you've just read so widely, what if we asked him about some of

his favorite books or his best books, you know,

the best books for us to read, and particularly books that are not ridiculously academic?

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