The Network State book list

Below is a list of books referenced in Balaji Srinivasan's The Network State book.

I've added all books referenced in the main text. I still need to go through the Appendix. Eventually, I might add different media types (youtube videos, tweets, etc) to this list.

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CHAPTER 2: History as Trajectory

Prologue

• The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything, Paul Vigna, Michael J. Casey
• Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation, Alexei Yurchak
• The Antifascist Classroom: Denazification in Soviet-occupied Germany, 1945–1949, B. Blessing
• The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History, Ashely Rindsberg, Mark Crispin Miller
• The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, Rod Dreher

Microhistory and Macrohistory

• Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas M. Antonopoulos
• Practical Cryptography for Developers, Svetlin Nakov

Political Power and Technological Truth

• Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past, David Reich
• The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series, 2), Cixin Liu
• Stalin's Apologist: Walter Duranty: The New York Times's Man in Moscow, S.J. Taylor
• Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists, Antony C. Sutton

God, State, Network

• Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, Judy Blume & Debbie Ridpath Ohi

People of God, People of the State, People of the Network

• Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing, Lee Staples
• The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, Mariana Mazzucato
• The God That Failed, Richard H. Crossman
• Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation, Alexei Yurchak
• Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, John McWhorter
• Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World, Tom Holland
• Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University, Michael Gibson

If the News is Fake, Imagine History

• Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America, Annie Jacobsen
• Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists, Antony Cyril Sutton
• Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler: The Astonishing True Story of the American Financiers Who Bankrolled the Nazis, Antony Cyril Sutton
• Trotsky in New York, 1917: A Radical on the Eve of Revolution, Kenneth D. Ackerman
• The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times, Anthony DePalma
• Red Star Over China: The Classic Account of the Birth of Chinese Communism, Snow, Edgar and Fairbank, Dr John K.
• The Dark Side of Camelot, Seymour M. Hersh
• The Russian Revolution: A New History, Sean McMeekin
• Where Is My Flying Car?, J. Storrs Hall
• How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom, Matt Ridley
• The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age, James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg
• Principles for Dealing with The Changing World Order- Why Nations Succeed and Fail, Ray Dalio
• War and Peace and War, Peter Turchin
• The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny, William Strauss
• How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone, Brian McCullough
• Ai Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Kai-Fu Lee
• The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Volume One) , Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
• The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution, Yuri Slezkine
• The Journalist and the Murderer, Janet Malcolm
• The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History, Ashley Rindsberg
• Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization, Nicholson Baker
• Stalin's War: A New History of World War II, Sean McMeekin
• The Chief Culprit: Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II, Viktor Suvorov
• Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr
• American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character, Diana West
• El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency, Ioan Grillo
• Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939, Wolfgang Schivelbusch
• The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962—1976, Frank Dikötter
• The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu
• Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence, Bryan Burrough
• Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love, David Talbot
• The Organization Man, William H. Whyte
• The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World, James Burnham
• Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy, Stephen Wertheim
• The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, Amity Shlaes
• When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany, Adam Fergusson
• Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin, Mel Gordon

Fragmentation, Frontier, Fourth Turning, Future Is Our Past

• Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the new science of the human past, David Reich
• The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny, William Strauss
• Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History, Peter Turchin
• America's West: A history 1890-1950 , David M. Wrobel
• Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin, Mel Gordon
• When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany, Adam Fergusson
• Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another, Matt Taibbi
• Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Batya Ungar-Sargon

Left is the New Right is the New Left

• Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history, Volume I) , David Hackett Fischer
• Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, Graham Allison
• The United States vs. China: The Quest for Global Economic Leadership, C. Fred Bergsten
• Getting China Wrong, Aaron L. Friedberg
• The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Jean-Louis Panné
• Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, The Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place On Earth, Iain MacGregor
• The Communistic Societies of the United States: Economic Social and Religious Utopias of the Nineteenth Century, Charles Nordhoff
• The radical Republicans: Lincoln's vanguard for racial justice, Hans Louis Trefousse
• Animal Farm, George Orwell
• Dune, Frank Herbert

The One Commandment

• So You've Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson

CHAPTER 3: The Tripolar Moment

The Dated and the Timeless

• China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom, Gordon G. G. Chang
• The Coming Collapse of China, Gordon G. G. Chang

CHAPTER 4: Decentralization, Recentralization

Sociopolitical Axes

• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Michael Lewis
• A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State, Harsh Madhusudan and Rajeev Mantri

Foreseeable Futures

• Virtual Economies: Design and Analysis, Vili Lehdonvirta and Edward Castronova

American Anarchy, Chinese Control, International Intermediate

• Ai Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Kai-Fu Lee
• Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History, Peter Turchin
• Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, John McWhorter
• China Coup: The Great Leap to Freedom, Roger Garside

Victory Conditions and Surprise Endings

• Gold, Blood, and Power: Finance and War Through the Ages, James Lacey Mr.
• Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto, Aaron Bastani

CHAPTER 5: From Nation States to Network States

On Nation States

• The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism, John Breuilly
• Nation-State, Walker Connor
• Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood, Joshua Keating
• Not on the Map: The Peculiar Histories of De Facto States, Michael J. Seth
• The General Will: Rousseau, Marx, Communism, Andrew Levine
• The Concept of the Politica, Carl Schmitt
• The French Revolution: A History, Thomas Carlyle
• Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy, Stephen Wertheim
• How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States , Daniel Immerwahr
• Colossus: The rise and fall of the American empire, Niall Ferguson

On Network States

• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American community, Robert Putnam