📚 6 Books mentioned in "Democrats are Losing the War for Attention. Badly. | The Ezra Klein Show" of The Ezra Klein Show

also you know the first essay which is just about the sort of different versions of dystopian Future Between 1984 which is information constraint and Brave New World which is Overflow of entertainment and information about how we ended up in the Brave New World

Chris Hayes mentions this book as an example of a dystopian future vision, contrasting it with another book.

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always our final question what are three books You'd recommend to the audience so so first I'll start with a classic which is Neil postman's amusing ourselves to death the the goat The Goat in this in this discourse I think it still totally holds up

Chris Hayes recommends this book as a classic on the topic of the conversation (attention/media).

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also you know the first essay which is just about the sort of different versions of dystopian Future Between 1984 which is information constraint and Brave New World which is Overflow of entertainment and information about how we ended up in the Brave New World

Chris Hayes mentions this book as an example of a dystopian future vision, contrasting it with another book.

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great um another book that has been mentioned on your podcast a lot and relevant which is again I I feel like I'm sort of citing can Tex here and it's important for me to do because I want to be clear as we all are as authors you know lots of people have been thinking about this very well and very hard um but Jenny Odell's how to do nothing um is a fantastic book

Chris Hayes recommends this book, noting it has been mentioned on the podcast before and is relevant to the discussion.

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when I was a kid I knew the manufacturer suggested retail price of every single car on the road by year like I could tell you not just not just what what a Camry cost but what a 93 Camry cost right cuz you must have had some book I had like the blue book

Ezra Klein mentions using 'the blue book' as a child to look up car prices, illustrating a time of limited content.

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but he just wrote a great book called the sirens call how attention became the world's most endangered resource I've read most of the books on attention out there this one is I think the best one at understanding the value of attention today

Ezra Klein introduces his guest, Chris Hayes, and mentions his new book, praising it as the best on the topic of attention.

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