Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-07-02
Books mentioned on How an Open Democratic Convention Would Work
Ezra Klein recommended The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H. White, and discussed Primary Politics by Elaine Kamarck and Abraham Lincoln and His Mailbag by Edward Duffield Neill. Elaine Kamarck recommended All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren and Quiet Revolution by Byron E. Shafer.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Primary Politics
Primary Politics by Elaine Kamarck is a comprehensive book that covers everything anyone needs to know about how the United States nominates its presidential candidates.
Discussed“she's been on the DNC rule Rules Committee for many years she's the author of the book on this primary politics and she's a senior fellow at Brookings”
Where to get it
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Abraham Lincoln and His Mailbag
Discussed“and so it reminds me a bit of something that I love from that Lincoln book Edward acorn's book um the Lincoln miracle and he quotes Charles suner who is a senator at that point sending a welcome message to the delegates whose Duty it is to organize Victory which I just think is such a great quote about what”
Where to get it
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The Making of the President 1960
The Making of the President 1960 by Theodore H.
Recommended“I go to next the making of the president 1960 by Theodore White which is about that election and there's lots of background stuff on how John Kennedy won the Democratic nomination and how Richard Nixon won the Republican nomination”
Where to get it
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All the King's Men
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren is a classic political novel that traces the rise and corruption of demagogic populist Willie Stark in the American South.
Recommended“well I'd start with All the King's Men this is an old one by Robert pen Warren and there's lots in it about party conventions”
Where to get it
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Quiet Revolution
Quiet Revolution by Byron E.
Recommended“and I'd end with quiet Revolution by Byron schaer which is the inside story of the movern Fraser commission”
Where to get it
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Plugged Primary Politics
“she's the author of the book on this primary politics and she's a senior fellow at Brookings”