Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-11-21
Ezra Klein & Fareed Zakaria: books mentioned on The Ezra Klein Show (Nov 2025)
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Ezra Klein discussed Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria. Fareed Zakaria recommended A preface to morals by Walter Lippmann and The Lost City by Alan Ehrenhalt.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Age of Revolutions
Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria is an examination of the historical and modern forces driving political, social, and technological upheaval across the globe.
Discussed“So I want to begin fared with where you open the book which is uh one of the more unusual scenes I've imagined. So, you open the book around a conversation you had with Steve Bannon in Rome.”
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A preface to morals
A Preface to Morals by Walter Lippmann is a classic philosophical work written during the Jazz Age of the 1920s that examines the spiritual and psychological crisis of modern secular society.
Recommended“The one book that I have loved and have gone back to over and over is a book by Walter Lipman called a preface to morals. Uh it was written in the 1920s during the jazz age and he first identifies not first but he identifies very powerfully this problem of modern societies that you lose faith in religion and”
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The Lost City
The Lost City by Alan Ehrenhalt is a work of urban sociology and journalism in which the author returns to the Chicago neighborhoods of his youth to investigate why past communities felt so vibrant, cohesive, and deeply connected.
Recommended“There's a wonderful book called The Lost City by Alan Erin Halt, a journalist who went back to Chicago to wonder you wondering why the Chicago of his youth seemed so community oriented and why what what did they do that that was lost and he discovered that it was so community oriented because everyone was so poor they couldn't”
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“And I'm so thrilled to be here with Fred Zakaria tonight, the host of Freed Zakaria GPS on CNN and author of the great book Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash: From 1600 to the Present, which came out in paperback on November 4th.”
“But I do think that there's a very important point it makes, and I try to make this in the book.”