📚 3 Books mentioned in "Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’" of The Ezra Klein Show

Episode: Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’

Published on January 10, 2025

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!

Dictators at War and Peace

by Jessica L. P. Weeks

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so first I would recommend Jessica weeks who has a book called dictators at war in peace and this is our go-to book for explaining why personalistic dictatorship is bad for foreign policy

The guest, Erica France, recommends this book by Jessica Weeks and describes its topic.

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The Origins of Elected Strongmen

by Erica Frantz, Senior Fellow and Director of the Transatlantic Security Program Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Joe Wright

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Erica France is a political scientist at Michigan State University and a co-author of the origins of elected strongmen how personal parties destroy democracy from within

The host introduces the guest, Erica France, and mentions her as a co-author of this book, which is the subject of the discussion.

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The Trumpiad

by Cody Walker

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And then lastly for some lovy I would recommend Cody Walker's poetry book called The trumped from I think 2016 or 2017

The guest, Erica France, recommends this poetry book by Cody Walker for some levity.

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