Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-10-18
Books mentioned on The Hidden Politics of Disorder
Charles Fain Lehman recommended Thinking About Crime by James Q. Wilson and Against Excess by Mark A. Kleiman. Ezra Klein recommended The City That Became Safe by Franklin E. Zimring and The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Thinking About Crime
James Q.
Recommended“the first one is a lot of the ideas I talked about particularly early in this conversation come from the work of the political scientist James Q Wilson arguably the most influential political scientist of the 20th century my personal ideological hero and his collection of essays thinking about crime was really influential on how I think about crime”
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The City That Became Safe
The City That Became Safe by Franklin E.
Recommended“Franklin zimmering the criminologist has a book called the city that became safe which is about New York's experience specifically and he argues the reason that new New York in particular experienced such a large decline even relative to the rest of the country is because of its adoption of these tactics under Rudy Giuliani and then subsequently Mike Bloomberg”
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Against Excess
Against Excess by Mark A.
Recommended“the second book I was going to plug uh Mark climens when Brute Force fails which is a response to James K Wilson's book but instead I'll actually go with Mark kleinman's work on drug policy his book against excess which is in my mind the most analytically sound articulation of how to think about drug policy I've ever read”
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe is a satirical novel chronicling ambition, greed, and urban decay in 1980s New York City.
Recommended“and the book that I recommend to understand the sort of peak of urban dysfunction in America is Tom W bonfire the vanities which is you know his sendup of urban American life in the 1980s and I think is a parody but is also in many ways true to reality and says a lot about today's urban life as”
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