📚 4 Books mentioned in "What Trump Is Really Doing | The Ezra Klein Show" of The Ezra Klein Show

uh demon Copperhead was the only novel I read twice last year and I think that it is the rebuttal to all of the you know pseudo sentimental like Hil hbil elogy debate in terms of what really happened to the rural poor over the last 25 years

Dar recommends this novel, stating it was the only one he read twice last year and views it as a rebuttal to debates about the rural poor.

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uh and if I don't say an immigration book I'm probably going to be fired so everyone who has gone is here by Jonathan Blitzer specifically the first half um which talks about the 80s and has really great archival material uh as a reminder that like Government is made of people and people make decisions

Dar recommends this immigration book, specifically the first half, highlighting its archival material about the 80s.

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so I'm reading old long novels uh Middle March is by many people's estimate uh the greatest English language novel ever written

Matt mentions reading this classic long novel, citing its reputation as a great English novel.

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but uh I think that like the fifth Risk by Michael Lewis is probably a good book to revisit if you if you have it and to skim if you haven't read it checked it out yet just for a reminder of the innumerable things that the Federal government does that a like broad-based attack on the civil service is going to end up you know degrading it some in some form or another

Dar recommends this book to revisit or skim as a reminder of the federal government's functions and the potential degradation from attacks on the civil service.

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