📚 3 Books mentioned in "Donald Trump and the 'Revolt of the Elites'" of The Ezra Klein Show

Third Ugo Mercier uh not born yesterday and it's about what we talk about right now is can can somebody like Elon mus like uh um Donald Trump talk to you a fairly liberal human being and through the magic of this his disinformation suddenly you walk away thinking I will vote for that man whatever he goes right can he persuade you through this manipulative process and he has a lot of psychological data in there that pretty clearly explains no not really people tend not to be persuaded by um oratory rhetoric uh and tend to believe what they believe so um ug Mercier

The guest recommends this book by Hugo Mercier as his third book recommendation.

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back in 2016 When Donald Trump won the first time there was this book it was self-published by a former CIA media analyst named Martin G that became a kind of phenomenon in Silicon Valley the book was called the Revolt of the public and what it did was describe the way that politics was changing because media was changing

The host introduces the guest's book, mentioning its title and author, and briefly describes its topic.

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second one I would say um a British Economist Paul orad has got a book called why most fail and you should read it first of all because it's a great title uh number two because as an economist he's gone through the data um mostly British and American data that goes back 150 years economic data and try to solve you know basically they to try to solve issues like um Unemployment uh segregated you know ethnically segregated households and it's it's an it's a all hypothesis nothing has changed so it's a fascinating book

The guest recommends this book by Paul Ormerod as his second book recommendation.

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