Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2026-08-11
Ezra Klein & Ross Douthat: books mentioned on The Ezra Klein Show (Aug 2026)
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Ezra Klein discussed Grand New Party by Ross Douthat and others. Ross Douthat recommended Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov, De Gaulle by Julian Jackson, and Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Grand New Party
Discussed“It's worth noting here for people who don't know, you and your former co-blogger Ryhan had written a book called Grand New Party.”
Where to get it
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Speak, Memory
Recommended“I have been reading uh, Speak Memory by Vladimir Nambacov, Nbachov, however you want to pronounce it, which is his sort of memoir uh, mostly of his boyhood as a Russian aristocrat before the Russian the Russian Revolution.”
Where to get it
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De Gaulle
Recommended“Uh I will recommend uh Julian Jackson's biography of Charles de Gaulle [snorts] on general principles.”
Where to get it
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Treasure Island
Recommended“And I will finally recommend the most recent book that I read to my children which is Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Grand New Party
“I think that's his copy of Grand New Party back there.”