πŸ“š 3 Books mentioned in "How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump | The Ezra Klein Show" of The Ezra Klein Show

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Episode: How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump | The Ezra Klein Show

Published on May 6, 2025

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

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Experiences in Visual Thinking

by Robert H. McKim

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Um and then um there's another one uh experiences and visual thinking. It's like kind of a hippie like you know 70s but it is really brilliant at helping exercise the other parts of your brain that analyze problems like drawing and using your fing like it's it's I think does it a necessary part of rebuilding you know parts of your brain that are not just the wrote correct answer but like how to you know uh create a caricature out of your idea and then like enlarge certain parts, reduce it's it's a really useful tangible tool.

Marie Glucen Perez recommends a book about visual thinking and problem-solving, describing its approach.

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Random House Book of Poetry for Children

by Jack Prelutsky

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Um the other thing, uh you know, I've got a 3 and 1/ half-year-old son at home and he's like we cloned his father. He's like a really smart, gifted little mechanic and and um fun, but he also really loves poetry and um any of the children's poetry anthologies from uh Jack Pletki and uh just that reading and language is fun.

Marie Glucen Perez recommends children's poetry anthologies by a specific author, mentioning her son's enjoyment of poetry.

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The Wheelwright's Shop

by George Sturt

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So there's a book my grandpa gave me uh uh the wheelright shop by George Strut uh is written in the 1920s by a guy whose family had been building wooden wheels in England for 200 years and like the specifics of it is just beautiful.

Marie Glucen Perez recommends a book given to her by her grandpa, describing its content about traditional wheel building.

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