Lloyd Blankfein
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Jun
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about the origins of World War I. A great book, not a biography, but a fantastic book.
And by the way, very influential book.
Yes.
And very influential because it shows how you can get caught up in a vortex.
Forces started to mobilize.
It almost couldn't be stopped.
But she wrote a book that I found
really fun that I'm not sure, it's not her most famous book, but it's called A Distant Mirror.
And it's a history of a life that was led in the 14th century.
And the guy was a very influential person, not a king, but kind of an aristocrat.
And he moved back and forth between England and France.
And the 14th century, the reason why it's called A Distant Mirror, she wrote this book like in the middle of the Cold War when everybody was worried that the world was going to be blown apart in a nuclear war and stuff.
And actually in the 14th century was a time when they had the Black Plague and the Papal Schism and the Hundred Years' War was a very stressful time in Europe and the world in general, but certainly in Europe.
And people were very, very fatalistic in their attitude.
And that's why...
It was called A Distant Mirror.
It was sort of like a mirror on the 20th century.
And the jumping off point for telling the story was this particular guy, Baron Cousy was a French aristocrat, but he fought in the Hundred Years' War.
He ended up marrying an English woman.
And so he appeared, it was like Zelig.
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