Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 2026-02-13
Books mentioned on What the Epstein Files Reveal About How Elite Worlds Work | The Ezra Klein Show
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Nobody's Girl
Discussed“I want to read you a quote from Virginia Giuffre’s book, "Nobody’s Girl," that gets at this in a really powerful way.”
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Random Family
Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc is an exhaustive work of immersive investigative journalism that follows the lives of several young people in the Bronx over a decade.
Recommended“"Random Family" by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.”
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo is a work of narrative nonfiction that investigates poverty, inequality, and daily life in a Mumbai slum over the course of several years.
Recommended“and "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" by Katherine Boo”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Man in the Mirror
“and is the author of among other books, "Winners Take All: the Elite Charade of Changing the World," which he published in 2018, and the forthcoming "Man in the Mirror: Hopes, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City."”
Passing Winners Take All
“and is the author of among other books, "Winners Take All: the Elite Charade of Changing the World," which he published in 2018, and the forthcoming "Man in the Mirror: Hopes, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City."”
Own book Winners Take All
“In my book "Winners Take All," which is a lot about this class of people.”