


Read by Peter Thiel, Eric Weinstein

“He’s the one writer who has influenced me the most. ... I think the magisterial one is probably Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World.”
— Peter Thiel
Source: Interviews / The Portal
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
“A fantastic book... shows you what they were trying to do to demonize these hippies.”
— Peter Thiel
Source: Joe Rogan Experience #2190, Aug 2024
Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
“One of the books that tremendously influenced me when I started PayPal.”
— Peter Thiel
Source: Zero to One Notes / Interviews
“I still think his greatest novel was the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which is sort of this history of the LSD counterculture movement.”
— Peter Thiel
Source: Joe Rogan Experience #2190, Aug 2024