Guest
Doug Brunt
Doug Brunt is a New York Times bestselling author whose recent nonfiction focuses on overlooked industrial figures like Rudolf Diesel and Immanuel Nobel.
Circuit updated June 5, 2026
Notable quotes
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“His nephew, Immanuel Nobel, almost nobody in the West knows. And yet he had done far greater things. He pioneered the Russian oil industry. By World War I, he had the biggest oil company in the world, bigger than Rockefeller's Standard Oil.”
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“There's a passage in the book that talks about changing the street names and tearing down the statues and rewriting the history.”
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“With Nobel, it was the oil. It's really like it's the the quest to capture our sources of energy is the story of our times.”
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“And what Stalin did to Immanuel Nobel is the inspiration for George Orwell's 1984.”
Doug Brunt · The Megyn Kelly Show
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