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Every book Jamal Bouie recommended on podcasts
Jamal Bouie appeared on The Ezra Klein Show to discuss the political landscape and the Democratic Party, sharing three distinct book recommendations for listeners interested in American history and politics. Bouie first recommended Into the Bright Sunshine by Samuel G. Freedman, noting that it functions as a biography of Hubert Humphrey up until the pivotal 1948 Democratic Convention and covers a crucial moment in the fight for civil rights. For his second recommendation, Bouie selected Wide Awake by Jon Grinspan, explaining that the book explores the 1860 election and focuses on the Ardent Lincoln partisans, a quasi-military force of young men known as the wide awakes, alongside the Republican Party of that era. Moving slightly away from conventional party politics for his final choice, Bouie recommended Illiberal America by Steven Hahn. He described Hahn's book as stretching all the way back to the country's colonial origins, offering listeners a detailed examination of the illiberal political traditions embedded within American life throughout its long history.
Books recommended by Jamal Bouie
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Illiberal America
Illiberal America by Steven Hahn is a historical work that traces the long, persistent tradition of illiberalism, intolerance, and exclusion within the United States from colonial origins to the modern era.
Recommended“and then for a third book this is a little I'd say like left field of these two books which are these two previous books which are very much about Party politics but I I read Stephen Han a story in his new book a liberal America which stretches back to America's the country's Colonial Origins to the Pres to”
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Into the Bright Sunshine
Into the Bright Sunshine by Samuel G.
Recommended“I'm going to recommend first a great book into the bright Sunshine young Hubert Humphrey and the fight for civil rights it's by Samuel G fredman and it is basically a biography of Hubert Humphrey up until the 1948 Democratic Convention”
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Wide Awake
Wide Awake by Jon Grinspan is a historical exploration of nineteenth-century American politics, focusing on the Republican party and the intense political dynamics surrounding the era of Abraham Lincoln.
Recommended“a second book is Wide Awake the Forgotten force that elected Lincoln and spurred the Civil War this is about the wide awakes a kind of Quasi military force of young men who were Ardent Lincoln partisans in the 1860 election and the book very much about the Republican party of that era and it sort of partisan the Republican”
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Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| The Real Danger Within the Democratic Party of a Fundamental Crack-Up | The Ezra Klein Show | 2024-07-09 | 3 |