📚 6 Books mentioned in "Are We on the Cusp of a New Political Order?" of The Ezra Klein Show

visually you have John Kenneth gallb one of the Great economists of the new dual era writing the affluent society which is all about the problems of the society where now there is much more plenty but what makes life worth living has been been eroded

The host mentions John Kenneth Galbraith and his book, describing its theme.

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a book that helped me a great deal is Tim Alberta's book The Kingdom the power and the glory American evangelicals in an age of extremism He took me into a world that I otherwise didn't have accessibility to and he helped me to understand a great deal that I did not

The guest recommends this book by Tim Alberta and explains how it helped him understand American evangelicals.

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and finally uh Sarah iigo the known citizen very different kind of book a history of privacy in modern America We're talking about morality We're talking about community and of course social media has put the question of privacy and what constitutes privacy and what's private and what's public such an urgent question in understanding America

The guest recommends this book by Sarah Igo, describing it as a history of privacy and its relevance today.

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What does that tell us in his book the rise and fall of the neoliberal order the historian Gary gell introduced me to this concept of political orders these structures of political consensus that stretch over decades

The host introduces the guest's book and its central concept of political orders.

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I found kind of an unconventional place to study this and read about it Tim Harper underground asia Global revolutionaries and the assault on Empire and this is a book about underground radicals in east and south Asia and Southeast Asia 1900 to 1925 looking to upend Empire looking to upend capitalism looking to free their countries from Colonial shackles

The guest recommends this book by Tim Harper, describing its subject matter.

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I published a whole book about political polarization it was called why we're polarized and I've been thinking a lot about how the polarization of this year is different than what I was tracking when I was writing that book

The host, Ezra Klein, mentions his own book about political polarization and how the current situation differs from what he described.

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