Nudie Reads

English architect extraordinaire Inigo Jones believed firmly that the Romans built Stonehenge. His book on the subject is a glorious rollicking alt-history of barbarous Britons and useless Druids. Don...

24 Mar 202228min

John Stuart Mill wrote On Liberty in 1859 and it is as relevant today as then. Never out of print for over 160 years it's a political philosophy classic. How much liberty do you feel you enjoy where y...

20 Mar 202238min

In 1586 Mary Queen of Scots sent a secret letter about a plot against Queen Elizabeth of England, using what she thought was an uncrackable code. Not only was the code cracked, her letter was edited a...

17 Mar 202223min

F.Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is a classic work of American Jazz Age fiction, published in 1925. It was not a viral hit during his lifetime but it remains an enduring story of a "poor son of...

13 Mar 202248min

In 1956 listeners of Jean Shepherd's graveyard-shift radio show in New York City perpetrated the "I, Libertine" hoax. The Night People stuck it to the Day People. And it tickled folks from the UK enou...

10 Mar 202227min

In 1926 George Classon wrote ”The Richest Man in Babylon” to teach Americans about sound financial practice and the merits of prosperity. Whether you are earning euros, dollars, pounds or yen this boo...

6 Mar 202239min

In 1944 Wild Bill Donovan of the US Office of Strategic Service produced a Simple Sabotage Field Manual for citizen saboteurs fighting against Axis powers. It's a short, punchy 78-year old perfectly w...

3 Mar 202239min

He's been called 'notorious', 'murderous' and accused of writing 'with Satan's finger' but Niccolo Machiavelli's short book "The Prince" seems to be a fair study of human psychology and motivation. 50...

27 Feb 202233min