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The newest book from Crooked Media Reads is coming out January 27th, 2026. It's called Hated by All the Right People, Tucker Carlson and the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind by one of our favorite political journalists, New York Times Magazine writer Jason Zangerly.

In a lot of ways, Tucker's rise is what made the Trump age possible. He is an extremely influential figure on the right. And Jason's book gets inside, you know, what happened, how his rise came about. It's an excellent book.

It's so good. I've read it. It's a fantastic book. It is such a great, like, you follow Tucker's career, but it also traces the arc of the MAGA movement and how it's kind of lost it a little bit lately.

She is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and the coauthor of a book called Radical American Partisanship, Mapping Violent History, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Our Democracy

She is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and the coauthor of a book called ... Uncivil Agreement, How Politics Became Our Identity

He is someone who's, like, very interesting to think of in comparison to Barack Obama because on paper, like, the similar background of... Like, J.D. Vance is vice president of the United States now because of his... The way he told his own story, right? Similar to how Barack Obama did, right? Both in Dreams of My Father and The Speech.

the author of the upcoming book, The Big One, How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics. He spoke with Dan just before we recorded.

I'm excited to welcome to the show my friend Amir Tibone. He's a reporter for Haaretz. He's the author of the book Gates of Gaza, a story of betrayal, survival, and hope in Israel's borderlands.

And also by The Gates of Gaza, A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands. Just a truly unbelievable story about - everyone just buy it and read the book.

But first, let's talk about the art of the deal, which hopefully all of you have read by now. It's required reading in America.

our good friend Amanda Lippman, the cofounder of Run for Something, comes by to talk about her new book for Crooked Media Reads, When We're in Charge, which is a fantastic guide for young people looking to get into leadership positions.

photo welcome back to the pod congrats on the new book thank you it's called When We're in Charge the next generation's guide to leadership

The book is When We're in Charge, The Next Generation's Guide to Leadership. It's a fantastic book. You can preorder it now at crooked.com slash books or anywhere you like to get books.

I talked to Dr. Lior Zmigrod about her book, The Ideological Brain, which explores the neuroscience behind why some people are more susceptible to conspiracy theories and extremist ideologies.

I was just thinking that we are probably weeks away from an executive order that ties access to federal education funding to making art of the deal required for summer reading.

They're going to send a copy of them before they start negotiating.

Yes, it's probably Howard Lutnick. Howard Lutnick is right now just licking envelopes and sticking in copies of art of the deal to send all over the world.

Many of you in the media clearly missed the art of the deal.

Abundance is a new book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. It is a book about governance and in large part how blue states and cities need to govern better and deliver more.

Your new book, Abundance, has been out about a week now.

The book is like I was saying this. I was talking to Ben Rhodes, my former speechwriting colleague in the Obama White House, and I was like, they wrote the book like it was a speech that a politician could give.

Both I think something substantive, right, which is a framework for confronting some mistakes liberals have made and also a framework for thinking in a different way about the future.

Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson the book is Abundance it is fantastic like I said I'm Abundancepilled.

we will be in your feed on Sunday for a special bonus episode I interviewed Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson about their new book Abundance they came here to LA and they came to the studio and we had a long conversation that was going to be the interview on this episode but it ended up being so long and interesting we decided we will do a whole bonus episode about it so you will hear that on Sunday

I want to tell you some exciting news from our book imprint, Crooked Media Reads. Woodworking, the brandnew novel by Yellow Jackets writer and culture commentator Emily St. James, is now out wherever you get your books. Woodworking is an unforgettable and heartwarming debut following a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows, one of her students.

When we put out a book from the show, it was called, you know, The Best of Politically Incorrect.

Axios had this report this morning where some White House staffer I'd never heard of, like unloaded the clip of anger, things they're mad about in the AP style book.

Crooked Media Reads is proud to be publishing Woodworking, the fantastic debut novel from Yellow Jackets writer and culture critic Emily St. James. It is out March 4th.

The story follows a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows, one of her students. Woodworking is your muchneeded breather from everything else.

read Kash Patel's book the new FBI director you should check it out it's not a long book

Project 2025 author Russell Vogt for budget director.

I'm reading The Wide, Wide Sea by Hampton Sides.

It's about Captain James Cook, famous British explorer.

Obviously a lot of downsides to these guys running around the world, spreading diseases and rats and killing off native peoples, but also kind of fascinating to imagine a period of time when you could hop in a boat and go someplace that no one you knew had ever heard of even or wasn't on a map.

Reading Boy Mom, which is about raising young men and- Solid.