Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-11-07

Books mentioned on The Blue Wave Cometh?

1 book · With Aaron Rupar · Watch on YouTube

Ezra Klein discussed The education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. The education of Henry Adams

    Henry Adams · at 34:36

    The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams is a classic autobiographical masterpiece that reflects on the author's failed formal education in the nineteenth century while examining the accelerating impacts of technology, politics, and social upheaval on American identity.

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    “One is a famous line of uh Henry Adams from the education of Henry Adams. Politics as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
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