Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-05-19
Books mentioned on The Teen Mental Health Crisis, Part 1
Ezra Klein discussed Generations by Jean M. Twenge. Dr Jean Twenge recommended What's Our Problem? by Tim Urban and Nine Ladies by Heather Moll, and discussed Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Generations
Discussed“so in your new book Generations you write quote that there's a full-blown Mental Health crisis among young people”
Where to get it
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Bowling Alone
Discussed“I mean you can go on Robert putnam's book bowling alone basically says yes it's television”
Where to get it
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What's Our Problem?
Recommended“then the second is called what's our problem by Tim Urban”
Where to get it
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Nine Ladies
Recommended“it's a fiction book called Nine ladies and it is Pride and Prejudice meets Outlander”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Generations
“and then in her 2017 book igen and her new book Generations she's put together reams of charts”
Passing iGen
“and then in her 2017 book igen and her new book Generations she's put together reams of charts”
Plugged Generations
“so one of the things that is in the the Gen X chapter of Generations is the high school student surveys”
Plugged iGen
“and in my previous book igen which is all about gen Z there's one graph that I made which illustrates this”
Plugged Generations
“um this isn't a millennial chapter of generations and this is a little bit of a mystery”
Passing Generations
“your new book is called Generations”