Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-05-06
Books mentioned on How a Red-District Democrat Is Navigating Trump | The Ezra Klein Show
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez recommended Experiences in Visual Thinking by Robert H. McKim and Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky. Also mentioned: The Wheelwright's Shop by George Sturt.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Wheelwright's Shop
The Wheelwright's Shop by George Sturt is a classic memoir written in the 1920s that meticulously documents the traditional craft of building wooden wheels in rural England.
Recommended“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.”
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Experiences in Visual Thinking
Experiences in Visual Thinking by Robert H.
Recommended“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”
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Random House Book of Poetry for Children
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky is a celebrated children's poetry anthology featuring numerous illustrated verses designed to engage young readers.
Recommended“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”
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