Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-04-19
Books mentioned on The Emergency is Here (Part 2) | The Ezra Klein Show
Asha Rangapa recommended The Burning by Tim Madigan, Breaking Twitter by Ben Mezrich, and Erasing History by Jason Stanley.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Burning
The Burning by Tim Madigan is a powerful and heavily researched non-fiction work detailing the horrific events of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre.
Recommended“I was in Tulsa, Oklahoma last fall and I got a book called The Burning by Tim Madigan about the Tulsa race massacre which was very eye opening and astonishing that I did not learn that in history.”
Where to get it
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Breaking Twitter
Breaking Twitter by Ben Mezrich is a narrative non-fiction book detailing the high-stakes corporate takeover and subsequent transformation of the social media platform by Elon Musk.
Recommended“I recently read Ben Mezri's breaking Twitter uh which is basically how Musk broke Twitter but it is an interesting playbook that you are seeing replicated now.”
Where to get it
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Erasing History
Erasing History by Jason Stanley is a timely examination of how political actors and authoritarian movements manipulate historical narratives to shape future societal control.
Recommended“And then Jason Stanley's erasing history, how fascists rewrite the past to control the future, which is very preient uh in terms of what the Trump administration is trying to do to universities right now.”
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