Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2024-06-04
Books mentioned on The Republican Party’s Decay Began Long Before Trump
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Hollow Parties
The Hollow Parties by Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld explores the transformation and institutional decay of American political parties.
Discussed“Daniel in your book is your association with the politics of the new right the right that ultimately does take over the Republican party as a politics built around conflict not a politics built around ideology”
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Up from Liberalism
Discussed“William F Buckley wrote a book called up from liberalism that articulated the case for fusionism you know bringing together more old traditionalists free marketeers and anti-communists into a new conservative movement”
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How Democracies Die
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt is a political science book that examines how elected leaders can gradually subvert democratic institutions and highlights the importance of political norms and gatekeeping.
Discussed“the other virtue is the gatekeeping virtue a point that litzky and zot make and how democracies die which is like a big book a couple years ago that at least as lore in part leads Joe Biden to run for president”
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The Two Faces of American Freedom
The Two Faces of American Freedom is a political theory and history book by Aziz Rana that examines the contradictory nature of civic inclusion and exclusion within the American political tradition.
Recommended“Aziz Rana who a law professor he has a giant new book out about Americans views of the Constitution but he in 2010 wrote a very substantial and Brilliant book called the two faces of American Freedom that is a good synthesis of a master theme in American history”
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Rainbow's End
Rainbow's End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985 by Steven P.
Recommended“wonderful book by Steven Erie rainbows and Irish Americans in the dilemmas of urban machine politics 1840 to 1985”
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An American Melodrama. The Presidential Campaign of 1968. Lewis Chester, Godfrey Hodgson, Bruce Page. (1. Publ.)
An American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968 by Lewis Chester, Godfrey Hodgson, and Bruce Page is a classic journalistic account of the turbulent 1968 United States presidential election.
Recommended“the best to our mind book about an American political campaign ever written is an American Melodrama the presidential campaign of 1968 by Lewis Chester Godfrey Hodson and Bruce page”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“it's a story that the political scientists Daniel SCH slman and Sam Rosenfeld telling their new book The Hollow parties the many past and disordered present of American Party politics”