Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-04-28
Books mentioned on Democrats: Pay Attention to What’s Happening in California
Scott Wiener recommended And the Band Played on by Randy Shilts, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Last Call by Daniel Okrent, Prohibition by Daniel Cohen, and The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time Book 2) by Robert Jordan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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And the Band Played on
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts is widely recognized as the definitive, authoritative history of the public health failures and political negligence that fueled the early HIV/AIDS crisis.
Recommended“one is a book called and the band played on by Randy Schultz which is I think the definitive authoritative uh history of the public health debacle that fueled the HIV aids crisis and you can learn a lot about what not to do when you have a public health problem or a pandemic”
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The House on Mango Street
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a celebrated coming-of-age novel told through a series of poignant vignettes following a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago.
Recommended“another is a book called The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros it's an amazing book of vignettes about this teenage girl her upbringing and it ties in a lot about what it means to live in inadequate housing and people's dreams and aspirations about housing”
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Last Call
Last Call by Daniel Okrent is a comprehensive history of the American prohibition era, detailing the social, political, and cultural forces that led to the constitutional ban on alcohol.
Recommended“and then a book called um last call I can't remember the author's name it's about the history of Hell prohibition happened and uh sometimes people wonder how on Earth did Prohibition not only happen but get amended into the United States Constitution and this is a absolutely brilliant recitation of the history of how it happened and how it”
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Prohibition
Although listed separately, this entry references the same historical context and subject matter discussed by Scott Wiener on The Ezra Klein Show on April 28, 2023, in the episode titled Democrats: Pay Attention to What’s Happening in California.
Recommended“and then a book called um last call I can't remember the author's name it's about the history of Hell prohibition happened and uh sometimes people wonder how on Earth did Prohibition not only happen but get amended into the United States Constitution and this is a absolutely brilliant recitation of the history of how it happened and how it”
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The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time Book 2)
The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time Book 2) by Robert Jordan is a classic epic fantasy novel that continues the sprawling, multi-volume narrative of the Wheel of Time series.
Recommended“and then I want to just do a shout out for um for all of the fantasy nerds out there because I am a fantasy nerds um and the series uh The Wheel of Time which is one of the just going old school there it's old school but you know what I love about it this it was written”
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