๐Ÿ“š 7 Books mentioned in "Manliness, Cat Ladies, Fertility Panic and the 2024 Election" of The Ezra Klein Show

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Podcast: The Ezra Klein Show

Episode: Manliness, Cat Ladies, Fertility Panic and the 2024 Election

Published on August 16, 2024

Hereโ€™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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Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy

by Daniel Ziblatt

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and the last one I think sort of speaks to our conversation at the very end which is a book called conservative parties and the birth of democracy by Daniel ziblat where he argues that European countries that had very differentl political arcs in terms of their movement towards democracy being smooth or not in the 19th and early 20th century depended very heavily on whether they had an institutionalized conservative party

Zach Beauchamp recommends this book and describes its argument.

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Justice Gender And F

by Susan M. Okin

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the first one is Justice gender and the family by Susan Muller Oaken which I think is a really classic and sort of underappreciated and popular discourse treatment of liberal feminism

Zach Beauchamp recommends this book and describes its topic.

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Of Boys and Men

by Richard V. Reeves

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like listen to Richard Reeves now who has written I think a very good book on the problems men are facing and and he's saying you know we need to get more male nurses we need to get more male teachers

Ezra Klein mentions Richard Reeves and his book about the problems men are facing.

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Rethinking Sex

by Christine Emba

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Christine emba is a staff writer at the Atlantic and the author of rethinking sex a provocation

Ezra Klein introduces Christine Emba as the author of this book.

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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Book 1)

by J. R. R. Tolkien

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so I have just started rereading the Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR tolken and I would recommend it to others

Christine Emba recommends rereading this trilogy.

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The Reactionary Spirit

by Zack Beauchamp

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Zack beum is a senior correspondent at Fox who focuses on politics in the US and abroad he just published a book called The reactionary Spirit how America's most Insidious political tradition swept the world

Ezra Klein introduces Zack Beauchamp and mentions his recently published book.

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Why Liberalism Failed

by Patrick J. Deneen

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and actually his first book that came out that was actually kind of a huge deal to the point that Barack Obama even recommended it in his books of the summer the year that it came out was literally called why liberalism failed

Christine Emba mentions Patrick Deneen's first book and its title, noting its significance and Barack Obama's recommendation.

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