Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-11-09
Books mentioned on The Book That Predicted the 2024 Election
Ezra Klein recommended Party of the People by Patrick Ruffini. Patrick Ruffini recommended Steadfast Democrats by Ismail K. White and others, The real majority by Richard M. Scammon and others, and Shaping Our Nation by Michael Barone.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Party of the People
Recommended“rafini has been thinking about this and pouring through this data for years I recommend his book as an important place to start”
Where to get it
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Steadfast Democrats
Recommended“and there's a great book I was probably going to call it out at the end with your three books a segment called steadfast Democrats by Ismail white and Cheryl L which really talks about the ways in which we would have expected black voters to move more away from the Democratic party based on changes and sort of their”
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The real majority
Recommended“the second one is a book that was written in the early 1970s called the real majority by Richard scaman and Ben wattenberg this was a Nixon era book that really had been looking at what seemed like the changes in the electorate then among white working class voters moving into the Republican party”
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Shaping Our Nation
Recommended“the third book is one from 20 years ago called the new Americans by Michael Baron which um looks at the history of immigrant groups in the United States from the Italians to the Irish to uh the Jews and really finds analogues in sort of newer groups in the electorate”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Party of the People
“in 2023 he published a book called party of the people inside the multi-racial populist Coalition remaking the GOP”