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Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
You may think you know Anthony Scaramucci: a Harvard Law School graduate who cut his teeth at Goldman Sachs, went on to build two successful businesses and had an 11-day stint in the White House. What people don’t know is he’s an avid reader, endlessly curious, history buff with a restless mind. On Open Book, listeners will hear and get to know the real Anthony: the proud son of immigrant parents, a long-suffering New York Mets fan, and a father of five. Each week, he’ll invite you into an…
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- Open Book with Anthony Scaramucci
The Terrifying Similarities Between 1937 and America Today — Catherine Grace Katz
Are we repeating the mistakes of the 1930s without realizing it, and are the warning signs of history unfolding right before our eyes? This week on Open Book…
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CNN's Dana Bash Reveals Why Trump Is Unlike ANY President in History
What can Julius Caesar, Abraham Lincoln, and Nelson Mandela teach us about today's political chaos? This week on Open Book, I'm joined by CNN's Dana Bash to…
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How to Turn Life's Greatest Challenges Into Your Greatest Strengths - Domenic Ionta
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The Dangerous Mistake Western Leaders Keep Making - Dickie Shearer
Connect with top talent ready to help your business grow: https://www.upwork.com/ For more than a century, America and the West have dominated the global…
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Baseball Icon Dusty Baker: The Life Lessons Baseball Taught Me
Johnnie B. “Dusty” Baker Jr. is the former manager of the San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Washington Nationals, and Houston Astros. Baker…
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Why Trump Survives Scandals That Destroy Other Politicians – Stephen Sackur
Connect with top talent ready to help your business grow: https://www.upwork.com/ What happens to democracy when the truth no longer matters, politicians are…
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How Hollywood Sold Out to China — Chris Fenton
Hollywood thought China represented the biggest growth opportunity in the world, but somewhere along the way, we started changing our movies, compromising our…
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The Decisions That Changed the Middle East Forever - Akbar Shahid Ahmed
My guest today is Akbar Shahid Ahmed, an award-winning foreign affairs journalist whose new book Crossing the Red Line takes us inside the Biden…
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Billionaire David Rubenstein: Owning a Sports Team Is Harder Than Anything I've Done Before
I am honored to be joined by my friend and repeat guest on Open Book, David Rubenstein. He has built one of the most successful careers in private equity, but…
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The Historian Who Explains Why the Middle East Is Messed Up - Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Middle East didn’t become a cauldron overnight, and to understand what’s happening there today, you have to understand the history that brought us here…
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How Wall Street’s Billionaires Became Untouchable - William D. Cohan
What happens when you accumulate so much money and power that the normal rules no longer seem to apply? William Cohan joins me to unpack the extraordinary rise…
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Harlan Coben Sold 100 Million Books. Here’s His Advice for Aspiring Writers.
He has sold more than 100 million books, but what I love most about Harlan Coben is that he’ll be the first to tell you he still wrestles with self-doubt, and…
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The KGB Spy Who Exposed Russia’s Secret Plan to Attack The West - Richard Kerbaj
This is an unbelievable true story of a KGB defector who helped MI5 blow apart the Soviet spy network in Britain, and why British intelligence decided it…
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How Politics Destroyed American Universities - Neil Gross
Neil Gross joins me for a conversation about what happened to the American college experience, how politics, polarization, and fear of speaking your mind have…
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Chicago Is at a Breaking Point (But She Says She Can Fix It) - Susana A. Mendoza
Today on Open Book, we're not joined by an author, but by a woman fighting to become the next mayor of Chicago. Susana Mendoza grew up in Chicago learning how…
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The Secretive Family Behind a $13 Trillion Financial Empire
Fidelity is one of the most powerful financial institutions in America, but the story of the family behind it has largely remained hidden. Justin Baer joins me…
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Ex-CIA Officer: America Has a 20% Chance of Splitting Apart - James Telfer
A former CIA officer sat down to write a "fun airport novel" and ended up putting a 20% probability on America actually splitting apart. James Telfer joins me…
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America is Deeply Broken (Here's How We Can Fix It) - Rye Barcott
What does real courage look like when the cameras stop rolling, and the tribe wants you to fall in line? On this episode of Open Book, I sit down with Rye…
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He Repaired My Marriage And Then We Lost Him Forever - Mike Maimone
I got fired from the White House, my marriage was falling apart, and the guy who talked me off the ledge was my publicist, Howard Bragman, a man so full of…
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July 2026 Q&A: Will I Run For Office? How I Read So Much? How To Fix The American Education System?
You send me the questions, I give you the answers, no filter, no spin, straight from the gut. This month: would I actually run for office, how I manage to read…
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The Heartbreaking Atrocity of The Ukraine War (And Why You Should Care) - James Verini
After reading his book on the war in Ukraine, you will understand the significance of this conflict as you never have before. Putin thought he could topple…
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The Truth About Guns In America They Don't Want You To Know! - Mike McIntire
Three-time Pulitzer winner Mike McIntire joins me to talk about his new book Ricochet (out today), and this one hit me hard. We've got more guns than people in…
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The Real Reason Politics & Society Is Broken (And Fixing It) - Susan MacKenty Brady & Stuart Kliman
We're all walking around convinced we're right and everyone else is the problem, and it's tearing apart our politics, our workplaces, our families. Stu Kliman…
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The Billionaire Class Has No Idea What's Coming - Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva is back for the 4th appearance on Open Book, with a new must-read book, Ransom, and once again, he's writing tomorrow's headlines before they even…
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Russia Expert: Putin Destroyed Democracy And Trump's Doing It Too - Jamison Firestone
Putin weaponized the justice system; he went after the media, the universities, and even pulled a comedy show off the air because it made fun of him. On this…
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He Invented Online Betting...Then Went To Prison For It - Jay Cohen
He built a betting exchange three decades ahead of its time, got prosecuted for it while John Roberts almost took his case, and served time for something…
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"They Should've Been Dead": How 3 Men Survived 28 Hours Surrounded by Sharks - Michael J. Tougias
They made a vow to survive together, no blame, no panic, just 28 hours of pure will against sharks, jellyfish, and the open ocean. My guest, Michael Tougias…
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Jun 2026 Q&A: Breaking From Trump, Reforming American Democracy & Book Recs
It's the June Q&A on Open Book, and you came at me with everything this month: aliens, whether there's a reckoning coming when Trump's term ends, and the…
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The Coach Everyone Called a Failure (He Proved Them Wrong) - Monte Burke
Pete Carroll was written off as a flake, a fraud, and a two-time NFL failure, but then he built one of the greatest dynasties in college football history. This…
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America Repeats the Same Crisis Every 80 Years. Here's How We Overcome It - Bob Crawford
Does America face a defining crisis every 80 years? In this episode, I sit down with musician and author Bob Crawford to explore the remarkable life of John…
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Historian: The Untold Story of WWII's Most Fascinating Person - Geoffrey Roberts
Kathleen Harriman was there at the center of it all, at Churchill's side in the Blitz, in Stalin's Moscow, at Yalta, and somehow history almost forgot her. My…
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High Performance Psychologist: The #1 Fear Holding You Back From Your Full Potential
What if the biggest thing standing between you and your best life isn't failure, it's what other people think of you? Today, I sit down with world-renowned…
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The Rise and Fall of a Tech Titan - Katie Prescott
Mike Lynch was a working-class kid from East London who built one of Britain's greatest tech companies, and then watched it all collapse in a fraud scandal…
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You Can't Understand America Without Understanding New York - Russell Shorto
Before New York was New York, it was New Amsterdam, a Dutch colony built on pluralism, capitalism, and a radical idea that tolerance could be a competitive…
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The AI Expert Who Will Change Your Mind About AI - Josh Tyrangiel
I've been saying it for years, AI is the most important conversation we're having right now. Josh Tyrangiel spent a year hunting for the people actually using…
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The Dark Side of FDR Nobody Talks About - David T. Beito
Most of us grew up believing FDR saved America — my grandparents certainly did. But historian David Beito just changed everything I thought I knew about one of…
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The Ancient Secret to Finally Breaking Free From Your Past - Steven Pressfield
Back for a second time on Open Books is a living legend: Steven Pressfield!!! He's spent his entire career writing about warriors, and what he told me in this…
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Bestselling Historian: The Revolution That Shouldn't Have Happened - Douglas Brunt
Before the Soviet Union, before Stalin, before communism swallowed half the world — there was one man who almost stopped all of it, and history buried him on…
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WWII Historian: 3 Decisions That Built The West and How We're Destroying It - James Holland
James Holland is one of the greatest WWII historians alive, and his new book should be on the desk of every world leader. We get into the three decisions that…
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Why People Feel Empty, Lonely, and Like Nothing They Do Matters - Jennifer Breheny Wallace
Jenny Wallace has written the book for our moment, a masterclass on why so many of us feel empty, disconnected, and like nothing we do actually matters. This…
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May 2026 Q&A: Rebuilding After Trump, 3 Books That Changed My Life, Young Men in Crisis
This month's Q&A, we're getting into everything: the three books that changed how I think about money, how I went from Goldman Sachs to sick in bed on day one…
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The One Thing That Will Bring China Down - Simon Elegant
I've spent time in Hong Kong, I've watched this city transform firsthand, and I can tell you what Beijing has done there is the blueprint for everything that…
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NYT Bestselling Historian: Why George Washington Was the Greatest Leader Who Ever Lived — H. W. Brands
George Washington didn't just win the American Revolution; he invented what it means to lead with honor, and my guest today, award-winning historian H.W…
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Peter Diamandis: AI Will Cure All Disease, Reverse Aging, and You Have to Prepare
Peter Diamandis is one of the most extraordinary minds I've ever had the privilege of calling a friend, a man who doesn't just predict the future, he builds…
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The Tiny Daily Habits That Rewire Your Brain - Jake Humphrey & Damian Hughes
I sat down with Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes — the guys behind one of the biggest podcasts on the planet — and what they told me completely reframed how I…
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How 3 Gamblers Stole Millions From Casinos - Kit Chellel
Imagine you're smart enough to go to Wall Street, but instead you move into a Vegas apartment with six other guys and spend the next decade quietly robbing…
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Historian: This Event Created Trump, Giuliani & Rupert Murdoch - Heather Ann Thompson
Today's guest has done something I didn't think was possible: she made me understand the world I grew up in better than I understood it when I was living it…
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Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me — Lloyd Blankfein
Lloyd Blankfein is one of the most consequential figures in the history of American finance — a kid from the Brooklyn projects who climbed to the top of…
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Historian: America's Origin Story Is A Lie - Craig Fehrman - Craig Fehrman
Today's guest spent five years digging through archives to uncover the real story of Lewis and Clark — and what he found will completely change the way you…
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April 2026 Q&A: What Trump is Really Like, Repeal Citizens United, Declining US Dollar
We are back with another Open Book Q&A — the episode where you ask, I answer, and nobody's feelings are guaranteed to survive intact. From repealing Citizens…
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World's #1 Thriller Writer: "STOP SCROLLING and BE HUMAN AGAIN" - David Baldacci
David Baldacci has sold 150 million books, and when I picked up his first novel — Absolute Power — I was a 32-year-old lawyer who thought he had life figured…
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The Anthropologist Predicting Society's Collapse - Jitske Kramer
My guest today is Jitske Kramer — corporate anthropologist, bestselling author, and one of the most original thinkers I've had on this show. We're getting into…
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The Truth About AI They Don't Want You To Know - Sebastian Mallaby
Sebastian Mallaby is back as a repeat guest on Open Book, with a brilliant new book. He spent 30 hours inside the mind of the man building superintelligence…
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American Recession Watch, Extreme Wealth Gap, & Crypto Stalemate
Markets are flashing warning signs, and the U.S. consumer is taking the hit. Mike Novogratz and I break down why traders have shifted from buying the dip to…
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The Strategic Genius Behind Trump's Chaos - Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
This episode is about understanding something most people get wrong about Donald Trump: what looks like chaos is often very deliberate. I sat down with Jeffrey…
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Jensen Huang Slams AI Layoffs, Markets Go Haywire & the Great Tax Migration
Markets are whipping around like a yo-yo with war, oil, and rates all over the place, and somehow stocks are still standing. At the same time, Jensen Huang is…
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Why Great Teams Fail And How The Yankees Keep Winning - Andy Martino
I'll be honest with you, I'm a Mets guy, I owned a piece of that team for years, but even I can't deny that the Yankees are the Google of baseball, and today…
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America's K-Shaped Economic Crisis, Unemployment Wave Begins, & Iran War Spiraling
On today's episode of All Things Markets, Mike Novogratz and I discuss America's K-shaped economy — asset prices near all-time highs, food banks overwhelmed…
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The Career Advice That Ruins Lives (And What Actually Works) - Bill Gurley
Today on Open Book, I’m joined by legendary venture capitalist Bill Gurley, whose new book Runnin' Down a Dream challenges a lot of the career advice we give…
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Society Is Closer To Collapse Than We Think - Luke Kemp
Today on Open Book, we’re diving into one of the biggest questions in human history: why do civilizations rise—and why do they collapse? Cambridge scholar Luke…