Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2025-09-16
Books mentioned on We Are Going to Have to Live Here With Each Other | The Ezra Klein Show
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Lions & scavengers
Discussed“It was about his new book, Lions and Scavengers, and talking to him about it surprised me.”
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Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama is a reflective memoir detailing the future president's early life, multiracial heritage, and his journey to understand his complex relationship with his Kenyan father.
Discussed“He he spent time in Pakistan and he he he writes in in Dreams for my father about, you know, his his feelings of kinship in Kenya.”
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Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly Elegy by J.
Discussed“and it is directly at odds with the lion version of JD Vance who wrote Hillbilly.”
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Dominion
Tom Holland's Dominion is a comprehensive historical exploration tracing how Christianity shaped Western secular values, individual dignity, and notions of equality.
Discussed“So on the one hand I see the author of Dominion Tom Holland on a lot of writing podcasts. I read Dominion. I think it's a really fascinating and and beautiful book,”
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The True Believer
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer is a classic socio-psychological study examining the underlying causes of mass movements, fanaticism, and the personal motivations that drive individuals to join fanatical causes.
Discussed“In his book, The True Believer, Eric Hoffer explains that those who tear down the societies in which they live are typically what he terms inferiors.”
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Democracy in America
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville is a classic observation of American political and social life in the 1830s that evaluates the triumphs and perils of egalitarian democracy.
Recommended“I think that Democracy in America by Dtoqueville is still the best description of what America is and and in many ways ought to be.”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“So so the way that I describe it in this book and and I give a sort of more wholesome definition in an earlier book that I that I did called the right side of history”