Episode · Pod Save America · 2026-02-01
Books mentioned on Why Are Democrats Afraid of Power?
Marc J. Dunkelman, author of "Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress — and How to Bring It Back," stops by the studio to talk to Lovett about how Democrats — once they regain power — can make government work again.
Jon Lovett discussed Why Nothing Works by Marc J. Dunkelman. Marc J. Dunkelman discussed The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro.
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Why Nothing Works
Why Nothing Works by Marc J.
Discussed“I spoke to Mark Dunkelman. He wrote a book called Why Nothing Works.”
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The Power Broker
The Power Broker by Robert A.
Discussed“the power broker, which is the takedown of Robert Moses in New York City and reveals that this guy who had remade the landscape of New York City during between the 30s and the 60s had like strangled the city with interstates and like driven the cross Bronx Expressway across a burough of New York City and like you know”
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