The Once and Future King

Author: T.H. White

Referenced in 2 episodes

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Episodes Referencing This Book

June 10, 2024

Context:

RFK Jr. discusses reading this book when he was young, during his uncle's presidency. He describes it as a book about young King Arthur and mentions that T.H. White was both a brilliant author and a British falconer. The book contains a chapter about Arthur apprenticing as a falconer, which inspired RFK Jr. to pursue falconry himself.

February 01, 2021

Context:

Tom's favorite historical retelling of the Arthurian story, discussed including the unpublished 'Book of Merlin' which White wrote in 1940 as a pacifist work