Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-09-24
Books mentioned on Pete Buttigieg on 2024 and the ‘Crank Realignment’
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Trust
Discussed“and they they begin with a concept that he wrote a book about in 2020 which is Trust”
Where to get it
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Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D.
Discussed“I've been thinking about this question with Vance because I've been going back and rereading Helly elegy and one of the Striking things about that book is that Vance understands his own story as an immigration story”
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Morning and evening
Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse is a lyrical, deeply contemplative novella by the Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning author that traces the bookends of a human life from birth to death.
Recommended“I just read um Yan fussa the Norwegian novelist who won the Nobel Prize recently um he's got a book a really short book you and the Scandinavians man I know somebody heard that I was I like Norwegian literature asked me if I'd read this novelist who had become very famous with the Nobel Prize I hadn't and then”
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The Future Is History
The Future Is History by Masha Gessen is a narrative non-fiction book that traces the rise of totalitarianism in modern Russia through the lives of several distinct individuals.
Recommended“I recently read uh Masha gon's book uh the future is history it's the most helpful account I've seen of what happened in Russia and why Russia is now the way it is”
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Mr. Churchill in the White House
Mr.
Recommended“I've got uh um a book called Mr Churchill in the White House by Bob schu's a scholar of American studies um that I know from Notre Dame and just when you thought there couldn't possibly be another book about Churchill”
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