📚 4 Books mentioned in "Trump Kicks Down the Guardrails" of The Ezra Klein Show

and then as a third book uh to the trilogy I would say read American kleptocracy which is a book by Casey Michelle which talks about much more specifically American focused how Grand corruption is already visible and already at play in the United States

Ann Applebaum recommends this book by Casey Michel about corruption in the United States.

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um one of them is a book by a British writer called Oliver bulock and it's called moneyland and it describes where the offshore came world came from you

Ann Applebaum recommends this book by Oliver Bullough about the world of money laundering and kleptocracy.

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Another kind of parallel book to read it's a very short book it's called offshore and it's by uh Brooke Harrington who is a sociologist who in order to write the book trained as a financial adviser and so entered that world and learned how it worked from the inside

Ann Applebaum recommends this book by Brooke Harrington about the offshore financial world.

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I've been thinking about something Hana rent wrote in the origins of totalitarianism another one of these books that when you begin quoting it you know things are not going great

Ezra Klein mentions thinking about this book by Hannah Arendt and quotes it in the context of discussing Trump's appointments and potential authoritarianism.

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