Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-07-09
Books mentioned on The Real Danger Within the Democratic Party of a Fundamental Crack-Up
Jamal Bouie recommended Wide Awake by Jon Grinspan and Illiberal America by Steven Hahn. Also mentioned: Into the Bright Sunshine by Samuel G. Freedman and Hollywood's America by Stephen P Powers.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Into the Bright Sunshine
Into the Bright Sunshine by Samuel G.
Recommended“I'm going to recommend first a great book into the bright Sunshine young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights It's by Samuel G fredman and it is basically a biography of Hubert Humphrey up until the 1948 Democratic Convention when he Maneuvers with the Americans for Democratic action to put a civil rights plank a strong civil rights”
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Wide Awake
Wide Awake by Jon Grinspan is a historical exploration of nineteenth-century American politics, focusing on the Republican party and the intense political dynamics surrounding the era of Abraham Lincoln.
Recommended“a second book is Wide Awake the Forgotten force that elected Lincoln and spurred the Civil War this is about the wide awakes a kind of Quasi military force of young men who were Ardent Lincoln partisans in the 1860 election and the book very much about the Republican party of that era and it sort of partisan the Republican”
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Hollywood's America
Hollywood's America by Stephen P.
Recommended“and then for a third book this is a little I'd say like left field of these two books which are these two previous books which are very much about Party politics but I I read Stephen Han a story in his new book a liberal America which stretches back to America's the country's Colonial Origins to the Pres to”
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Illiberal America
Illiberal America by Steven Hahn is a historical work that traces the long, persistent tradition of illiberalism, intolerance, and exclusion within the United States from colonial origins to the modern era.
Recommended“and then for a third book this is a little I'd say like left field of these two books which are these two previous books which are very much about Party politics but I I read Stephen Han a story in his new book a liberal America which stretches back to America's the country's Colonial Origins to the Pres to”
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