Timothy Egan on Extremism and Fear
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 12 April 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Timothy Egan about his new book A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, how and why politics and extremism often operate hand-in-hand, dangerous misconceptions about white supremacy in America, better ways to teach American history, the fundamental lessons that he has learned about people over his long and varied career, and more.
Timothy Egan is an American author, journalist and former op-ed columnist for The New York Times. His nine published books cover a wide range of historical topics, including most notably the immediate aftermath of the Dust Bowl with The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Washington State Book Award in History/Biography. His other award-winning works include The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest (1991), The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America (2009), and "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher" (2013). In 2001, The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series to which Egan contributed, "How Race is Lived in America". His work can be found at his website timothyeganbooks.com.
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| 0:58.8 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. I'm recording this upstairs at my house |
| 1:08.4 | We just spent all afternoon packing up the camper. We're gonna drive out to Big Bend |
| 1:13.9 | I guess it'll be the third trip we've made in the last three years, you know the Stoics say we never step in the same river twice |
| 1:21.2 | This is |
| 1:22.7 | quite true for the Rio Grande these days because it is drying up and when we're there |
| 1:28.9 | In April last year it was flowing like a trickle and then it was all but gone |
| 1:33.8 | I am expecting there to be a little bit more water right now, but we'll see we're taking the kids |
| 1:39.8 | We've all the the other two times we've been there. It's been very very hot and |
| 1:45.4 | And it may snow one of the days that we're gonna be there |
| 1:48.1 | So it's gonna be an adventure we were speculating about whether we should cancel or not |
| 1:51.7 | But we decided to go through it to go through with it. It's gonna be an adventure and |
| 1:56.4 | It's gonna be fun. It's one of my favorite places on the planet a very underrated |
| 2:02.0 | American national park |
| 2:03.5 | We've got a Yellowstone trip planned later in the year |
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