Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2023-08-15
Books mentioned on This Conservative Thinks America’s Institutions ‘Earned’ Their Distrust
Mentioned: Wise blood by Flannery O'Connor, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, and The Right by Matthew Continetti.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Wise blood
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor is a Southern Gothic novel depicting religious fervor and eccentricity in the American South.
Recommended“my favorite maybe my favorite book of all time is wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor it's just like the right amount creepy and Christian and like the Christ haunted South”
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A Gentleman in Moscow
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is a celebrated historical novel that follows an aristocratic Russian count who is sentenced to spend the remainder of his life inside a luxury hotel by a Bolshevik tribunal.
Recommended“so I just read The Rules of Civility by Amar toles just a beautiful writer I had also read a gentleman in Moscow he's one of those writers that I don't really even care what you're writing Michael Siobhan is similar the prose is just so good”
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Rules of Civility
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles is a celebrated historical fiction novel that follows a young woman navigating high society in New York City during the late 1930s.
Recommended“so I just read The Rules of Civility by Amar toles just a beautiful writer I had also read a gentleman in Moscow he's one of those writers that I don't really even care what you're writing Michael Siobhan is similar the prose is just so good”
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The Right
The Right by Matthew Continetti is a comprehensive historical exploration of the American conservative movement and the various factions that merged to form it over the decades.
Recommended“and then I'll give a shout out to um Matthew continent is the right which is a history of the American right and conservatism which we'll speak to in a more erudite sense than I did many of the things that we have talked about right in this podcast”
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