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The Shame
Makenna Goodman
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The Fourth Branch
Daniel Squadron
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The Avoidable War
Kevin Rudd
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What Xi Jinping Wants
The Party's Interests Come First
Joseph Torigian
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The Souls of China
Ian Johnson
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The Beginning Comes After the End
Rebecca Solnit
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The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
Here Comes the Sun
Bill McKibben
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The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
The Glorians
Terry Tempest Williams
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The Very Good and Very Bad News on Climate
The Carbon Wave
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Marlena
A Novel
Saunders highlighted Julie Buntin's Marlena as a detailed, strangely joyful look at workingclass America and addiction.
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The other book I'm really loving is Marlena by Julie Buntin. And it's just kind of a real detailed, strangely joyful look at working class America and addiction that really surprised...
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Saunders highlighted Julie Buntin's Marlena as a detailed, strangely joyful look at workingclass America and addiction.
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The other book I'm really loving is Marlena by Julie Buntin. And it's just kind of a real detailed, strangely joyful look at working class America and addiction that really surprised me in a few places.
Free Market
The History of an Idea
DeLong highlighted Soll's book as a thorough exploration of the idea of the free market from antiquity to modern thinkers, calling it an excellent work he wished he'd had while writing.
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Jacob Sowell of USC ... has a book called Free Market, going through the idea of the Free Market from Cicero to Friedman.
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DeLong highlighted Soll's book as a thorough exploration of the idea of the free market from antiquity to modern thinkers, calling it an excellent work he wished he'd had while writing.
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Jacob Sowell of USC ... has a book called Free Market, going through the idea of the Free Market from Cicero to Friedman.
Adam Smith’s America
How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
DeLong said Liu's forthcoming Princeton book examines how Adam Smith's ideas were received and weaponized in America, urging listeners to read it when it appears.
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Glory Liu ... has a book on Adam Smith's America, on the reception of Adam Smith in America, and how someone who is largely a David Humean moral philosopher came to be weaponized as the person who bel...
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DeLong said Liu's forthcoming Princeton book examines how Adam Smith's ideas were received and weaponized in America, urging listeners to read it when it appears.
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Glory Liu ... has a book on Adam Smith's America, on the reception of Adam Smith in America, and how someone who is largely a David Humean moral philosopher came to be weaponized as the person who believes the market is a god in America in the 1800s and 1900s that I think is very, very much worth reading, and it's forthcoming from Princeton University Press in November.
Cultural Backlash
Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism
Ezra Klein said the 2019 book was the crucial text for thinking about the rise of global populist authoritarians.
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In 2019, she and her coauthor, the late Ron Inglehart, published what I've come to see as a really crucial text for thinking about the rise of global populist authoritarians. It's called Cultu...
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Ezra Klein said the 2019 book was the crucial text for thinking about the rise of global populist authoritarians.
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In 2019, she and her coauthor, the late Ron Inglehart, published what I've come to see as a really crucial text for thinking about the rise of global populist authoritarians. It's called Cultural Backlash.
Sacred and Secular
Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
Pippa Norris mentioned the book while discussing the decline of religion and secularization.
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And it was a new book ... Sacred and Secular.
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Pippa Norris mentioned the book while discussing the decline of religion and secularization.
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And it was a new book ... Sacred and Secular.
Spin Dictators
The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Norris highlighted the book as an analysis of modern authoritarian regimes using propaganda and controlled elections.
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And the book is called Spin Dictators. And it's about the changing face of tyranny in the 21st century. It looks at how dictators use propaganda, manipulation of information, and elec...
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Norris highlighted the book as an analysis of modern authoritarian regimes using propaganda and controlled elections.
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And the book is called Spin Dictators. And it's about the changing face of tyranny in the 21st century. It looks at how dictators use propaganda, manipulation of information, and electoral authoritarianism to maintain popular support.
The Digital Divide
Norris referenced her earlier book while discussing how the Internet can both empower and isolate people.
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Part of it is because I wrote an earlier book called Digital Divide, which really said that the Internet, which was taking off at the time, started, of course, in around 1995 in terms of the visual br...
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Norris referenced her earlier book while discussing how the Internet can both empower and isolate people.
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Part of it is because I wrote an earlier book called Digital Divide, which really said that the Internet, which was taking off at the time, started, of course, in around 1995 in terms of the visual browser.
The Bitter End
The Final Battles on the Eastern Front in World War II
The hosts described it as a detailed, datarich analysis of the 2020 election that also serves as a model for how American politics currently operates. They noted the book's focus on calcification and parity and its usefulness for understanding 2022.
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Their latest book coauthored with Chris Dasanovich just came out. It's called The Bitter End, the 2020 presidential campaign and the challenge to American democracy.
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The hosts described it as a detailed, datarich analysis of the 2020 election that also serves as a model for how American politics currently operates. They noted the book's focus on calcification and parity and its usefulness for understanding 2022.
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Their latest book coauthored with Chris Dasanovich just came out. It's called The Bitter End, the 2020 presidential campaign and the challenge to American democracy.
And so the book is more than that.
our book deserves a bit of an update when we release a paperback edition and add an afterword.
Identity Crisis 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Dc)
The book was referenced as the authors' 2016 work that examines how partisan identity and race intersect, and it was cited while discussing how the 2020 election clarified those relationships.
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Michael Tesler, who is our coauthor on Identity Crisis, the 2016 book, really likes to remind us ...
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The book was referenced as the authors' 2016 work that examines how partisan identity and race intersect, and it was cited while discussing how the 2020 election clarified those relationships.
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Michael Tesler, who is our coauthor on Identity Crisis, the 2016 book, really likes to remind us ...
The Loud Minority
Why Protests Matter in American Democracy (Princeton Studies in Political Behavior)
Ezra highlighted this study of contemporary protests, noting that it examines how protest movements intersect with polarized politics and can affect electoral outcomes.
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And then finally, a book by the political scientist Daniel Gillian called The Loud Minority. And it is a study of protests.
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Ezra highlighted this study of contemporary protests, noting that it examines how protest movements intersect with polarized politics and can affect electoral outcomes.
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And then finally, a book by the political scientist Daniel Gillian called The Loud Minority. And it is a study of protests.
House of Flame and Shadow (Crescent City, 3)
Kaplan's fiction title was recommended enthusiastically, with the host noting he read it on a plane and enjoyed it.
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I'm reading a fiction book by someone who works for my agent's office and it's called NSFW, Not Safe for Work. It's by a very talented young writer named Isabel Kaplan. Everyone should buy it. I grabb...
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Kaplan's fiction title was recommended enthusiastically, with the host noting he read it on a plane and enjoyed it.
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I'm reading a fiction book by someone who works for my agent's office and it's called NSFW, Not Safe for Work. It's by a very talented young writer named Isabel Kaplan. Everyone should buy it. I grabbed it off of her desk or off my agent's desk, read it when I was on a plane and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Famine
A Short History
He said it was an old but superfascinating concise history of famines, noting how the problem has diminished over time.
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I recently read Cormac O'Grady's book, Famine, A Short History. That's like old and I bought when it first came out, but it's super fascinating.
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He said it was an old but superfascinating concise history of famines, noting how the problem has diminished over time.
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I recently read Cormac O'Grady's book, Famine, A Short History. That's like old and I bought when it first came out, but it's super fascinating.
The World We Make
A Novel (The Great Cities, 2)
It was introduced as the newest entry in Jemisin's series, and she explained that the plot was rewritten after Donald Trump appropriated her original idea.
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this series includes books City We Became and most recently The World We Make.
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It was introduced as the newest entry in Jemisin's series, and she explained that the plot was rewritten after Donald Trump appropriated her original idea.
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this series includes books City We Became and most recently The World We Make.
The hilarity is that this book, The World We Make, probably would have been written a couple of years earlier if not for Trump.
Fullmetal Alchemist Complete Box Set
Jemisin recommended the manga for its deep exploration and satire of systems.
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Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa, if I'm not mangling her name. Fullmetal Alchemist is great at sort of exploring and skewering systems.
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Jemisin recommended the manga for its deep exploration and satire of systems.
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Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa, if I'm not mangling her name. Fullmetal Alchemist is great at sort of exploring and skewering systems.
Mechanique
A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti
Jemisin described it as a haunting prose novel set in a postapocalyptic circus of mechanical and partially mechanical people.
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a very good novel called Mechanique by Genevieve Valentine.
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Jemisin described it as a haunting prose novel set in a postapocalyptic circus of mechanical and partially mechanical people.
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a very good novel called Mechanique by Genevieve Valentine.
Witch King (The Rising World, 1)
Jemisin expressed enthusiasm for the upcoming novel, saying she absolutely loved it.
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She's got a new book coming called The Witch King that I absolutely loved.
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Jemisin expressed enthusiasm for the upcoming novel, saying she absolutely loved it.
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She's got a new book coming called The Witch King that I absolutely loved.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
50th Anniversary Edition (Modern Library)
Jemisin said she was rereading Jacobs' classic nonfiction work on urban design and function.
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I've been rereading Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of American Cities, which is nonfiction.
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Jemisin said she was rereading Jacobs' classic nonfiction work on urban design and function.
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I've been rereading Jane Jacobs' The Death and Life of American Cities, which is nonfiction.
Hitler's American Friends
The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States
The work was cited as a similartitled source used for the Ultra podcast and was offered as one of the three suggested reads.
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And there's another book, similar title, called Hitler's American Friends by a historian called Bradley Hart.
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The work was cited as a similartitled source used for the Ultra podcast and was offered as one of the three suggested reads.
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And there's another book, similar title, called Hitler's American Friends by a historian called Bradley Hart.
The Oppermanns
The novel was praised for its beautiful, suspenseful storytelling about resistance to authoritarianism and was recommended as a compelling read.
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I have a novel ... It's called The Oppermanns ... written by Leon Feuchtwanger. ... It's a novel ... beautifully written ... one of those stories where you know how it ends, but you a...
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The novel was praised for its beautiful, suspenseful storytelling about resistance to authoritarianism and was recommended as a compelling read.
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I have a novel ... It's called The Oppermanns ... written by Leon Feuchtwanger. ... It's a novel ... beautifully written ... one of those stories where you know how it ends, but you are completely held in suspense the entire time.
1940 Back In The Day - 24-page Greeting Card / Booklet with Envelope (5 x 7 Size) – Great for Birthdays, Anniversaries, Reunions, Graduations, Client & Corporate Gifts
The book about the 1940 presidential election was highlighted as a worthwhile read for understanding that era.
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A historian named Susan Dunn wrote a book on the 1940 presidential election, which is really, really worth reading. Just called 1940.
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The book about the 1940 presidential election was highlighted as a worthwhile read for understanding that era.
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A historian named Susan Dunn wrote a book on the 1940 presidential election, which is really, really worth reading. Just called 1940.
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