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The Dispossessed [50th Anniversary Edition]
A Special Edition of the Nebula Award–Winning Classic (Modern Classics)
Ezra Klein said he loved the book and praised its ability to let readers examine political debates through a fictional world.
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the first one I'm gonna recommend is The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin. And I love this book for a lot of reasons, but primarily I would say that science fiction and her book in particular here allow...
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Ezra Klein said he loved the book and praised its ability to let readers examine political debates through a fictional world.
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the first one I'm gonna recommend is The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin. And I love this book for a lot of reasons, but primarily I would say that science fiction and her book in particular here allows you to examine a lot of political debates without feeling so invested in them personally because it's in a made up world.
Democracy More or Less
America's Political Reform Quandary (Cambridge Studies in Election Law and Democracy)
Ezra Klein described it as a fascinating book that examines how democratic participation is shaped by elite interests.
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It's a fascinating book on this by a guy named Bruce Kane called Democracy More or Less.
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Ezra Klein described it as a fascinating book that examines how democratic participation is shaped by elite interests.
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It's a fascinating book on this by a guy named Bruce Kane called Democracy More or Less.
Uneasy Peace
The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence
It was highlighted as the key 2018 book that makes sense of the current homicide spike and the fragile peace before 2020.
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I've come to think of his 2018 book Uneasy Peace as really the book for making sense of this moment.
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It was highlighted as the key 2018 book that makes sense of the current homicide spike and the fragile peace before 2020.
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I've come to think of his 2018 book Uneasy Peace as really the book for making sense of this moment.
The Stickup Kids
Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream
It was described as a beautifully written account of South Bronx youths after the crack era, illustrating core sociological ideas.
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The first and most relevant to this conversation is a book by Randall Contreras called The Stick Up Kids. It is about a group of the author's peers in the South Bronx who reached early adulthood at th...
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It was described as a beautifully written account of South Bronx youths after the crack era, illustrating core sociological ideas.
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The first and most relevant to this conversation is a book by Randall Contreras called The Stick Up Kids. It is about a group of the author's peers in the South Bronx who reached early adulthood at the moment right after crack cocaine had hit its peak, right as the police had started to crack down and the market began to dry up. And it is a beautifully written book that illuminates what I think of as a core idea of sociology, which is how our lives unfold through the interaction of our own decisions in combination with a set of forces that lie outside ourselves.
Locked In
The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform
It was cited as an excellent book explaining how criminaljustice policy is dominated by suburban voters who don't experience the punitive impacts.
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The legal scholar John Pfaff makes this point in his excellent book, Locked In, that criminal justice policy in many urban centers today is disproportionately controlled by white, upp...
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It was cited as an excellent book explaining how criminaljustice policy is dominated by suburban voters who don't experience the punitive impacts.
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The legal scholar John Pfaff makes this point in his excellent book, Locked In, that criminal justice policy in many urban centers today is disproportionately controlled by white, upperclass suburban voters who don't live in the inner city and who don't face the downsides of the punitive policies that they vote for.
Work Won't Love You Back
How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone
Ezra Klein highlighted the book as Jaffe's most recent work that critiques the laboroflove ideology, describing it as exposing how devotion to jobs exploits and exhausts workers.
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Her most recent book is aptly titled Work Won't Love You Back, how devotion to our jobs keeps us exploited, exhausted, and alone.
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Ezra Klein highlighted the book as Jaffe's most recent work that critiques the laboroflove ideology, describing it as exposing how devotion to jobs exploits and exhausts workers.
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Her most recent book is aptly titled Work Won't Love You Back, how devotion to our jobs keeps us exploited, exhausted, and alone.
Sarah Jaffe, your book is Work Won't Love You Back.
Dirty Work
A Dad's Best-Friend Romance (Blue Collar Heat Book 1)
Ezra Klein said the book helped him understand the Amazon phenomenon by exposing the hidden, brutal reality of lowpaid, marginalised labour that powers cheap consumer goods.
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And I've been reading this great book recently by the journalist AOL Press called Dirty Work, which I feel like has really helped me understand the Amazon phenomenon.
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Ezra Klein said the book helped him understand the Amazon phenomenon by exposing the hidden, brutal reality of lowpaid, marginalised labour that powers cheap consumer goods.
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And I've been reading this great book recently by the journalist AOL Press called Dirty Work, which I feel like has really helped me understand the Amazon phenomenon.
Lost in Work
Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)
Ezra Klein introduced the slim paperback as a dense, insightful guide that critically examines contemporary work and serves as a companion to Jaffe's own book.
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I want to start off with a recent book called Lost in Work by Amelia Horgan. It's out on Pluto Press and it's a little itty bitty book, but it's really, really dense and full of wonde...
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Ezra Klein introduced the slim paperback as a dense, insightful guide that critically examines contemporary work and serves as a companion to Jaffe's own book.
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I want to start off with a recent book called Lost in Work by Amelia Horgan. It's out on Pluto Press and it's a little itty bitty book, but it's really, really dense and full of wonderful things.
Farewell to the Factory
Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century
Ezra Klein praised the decadesold study for its vivid account of factory work, the relationships workers forge, and the consequences when factories shut down.
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Another one that I love is from a couple decades ago. It's called Farewell to the Factory by Ruth Milkman, who's a labor sociologist. And it is about factory work, people's relationsh...
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Ezra Klein praised the decadesold study for its vivid account of factory work, the relationships workers forge, and the consequences when factories shut down.
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Another one that I love is from a couple decades ago. It's called Farewell to the Factory by Ruth Milkman, who's a labor sociologist. And it is about factory work, people's relationships to it and what happens when the factory closes down.
Confessions of the Fox
A Novel
Ezra Klein expressed enthusiasm for the novel, calling it brilliant and emphasizing the importance of reading fiction alongside nonfiction work critiques.
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And then I just want to recommend a novel because reading fiction is great and art is important. And I'm absolutely obsessed with Jordy Rosenberg's book Confessions of the Fox, which...
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Ezra Klein expressed enthusiasm for the novel, calling it brilliant and emphasizing the importance of reading fiction alongside nonfiction work critiques.
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And then I just want to recommend a novel because reading fiction is great and art is important. And I'm absolutely obsessed with Jordy Rosenberg's book Confessions of the Fox, which is just a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant book.
Field Guide to White Supremacy
The book was presented as a new coedited volume that maps connections between past and present racist violence.
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Kathleen is also the coeditor of the new book, A Field Guide to White Supremacy.
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The book was presented as a new coedited volume that maps connections between past and present racist violence.
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Kathleen is also the coeditor of the new book, A Field Guide to White Supremacy.
Industrial Society and Its Future
Unabomber Manifesto
The novel was referenced as a dystopian whitepower text that has been widely circulated among extremist groups.
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So you mentioned the book The Turner Diaries, which I've also read and it's a pretty disturbing book, I think you'd say.
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The novel was referenced as a dystopian whitepower text that has been widely circulated among extremist groups.
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So you mentioned the book The Turner Diaries, which I've also read and it's a pretty disturbing book, I think you'd say.
The Turner Diaries is a dystopian novel that came out, well, I suppose a utopian novel if you're an activist in this movement, that came out in the late 1970s in serial and was then printed and circulated very widely in the white power movement.
Alien Nation
Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster
The book was mentioned as a 1995 racist tract that framed immigration as an existential threat.
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there's this book that's written called Alien Nation. And the author is Peter Brimlow.
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The book was mentioned as a 1995 racist tract that framed immigration as an existential threat.
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there's this book that's written called Alien Nation. And the author is Peter Brimlow.
A Black Man in the White House
Barack Obama and the Triggering of America's Racial-Aversion Crisis
The work was cited as a source for data on demographic change and its political impact.
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that's something Pulsar Cornell Belcher writes about in his book, A Black Man in the White House.
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The work was cited as a source for data on demographic change and its political impact.
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that's something Pulsar Cornell Belcher writes about in his book, A Black Man in the White House.
Radical American Partisanship
Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy (Chicago Studies in American Politics)
The forthcoming book was described as a study of partisanship and political violence from 2017 to 2021.
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There's a forthcoming book called Radical American Partisanship from Liliana Mason and Nathan Kalmo where they did this study of partisans between November 2017 and February 2021.
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The forthcoming book was described as a study of partisanship and political violence from 2017 to 2021.
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There's a forthcoming book called Radical American Partisanship from Liliana Mason and Nathan Kalmo where they did this study of partisans between November 2017 and February 2021.
The Hispanic Republican
The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump
The book was mentioned while discussing Republican voter demographics and the rise of Latino voters.
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Jerry Cadava shows that Republican voters have been increasingly Latino, as discussed in The Hispanic Republican.
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The book was mentioned while discussing Republican voter demographics and the rise of Latino voters.
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Jerry Cadava shows that Republican voters have been increasingly Latino, as discussed in The Hispanic Republican.
Fortress America
How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
The book was recommended as a history of fear and violence in late20thcentury America.
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I really like Elaine Tyler May's history Fortress America, which talks about the way that fear and violence have been built into our politics and daily lives.
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The book was recommended as a history of fear and violence in late20thcentury America.
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I really like Elaine Tyler May's history Fortress America, which talks about the way that fear and violence have been built into our politics and daily lives.
Future Home of the Living God
A Novel
The novel was suggested for its apocalyptic themes and literary merit.
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I am thinking about the novel Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich, which is excellent.
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The novel was suggested for its apocalyptic themes and literary merit.
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I am thinking about the novel Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich, which is excellent.
Field Guide to White Supremacy
The volume was mentioned as a newly edited guide mapping historic and contemporary whitesupremacist networks.
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Kathleen is also the coeditor of the new book, A Field Guide to White Supremacy.
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The volume was mentioned as a newly edited guide mapping historic and contemporary whitesupremacist networks.
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Kathleen is also the coeditor of the new book, A Field Guide to White Supremacy.
Tiny You
A Western History of the Anti-Abortion Movement
The history of the antiabortion movement in the Four Corners states was praised as a new, insightful work.
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I really like Tiny You by Jennifer Holland, which is the history of the antiabortion movement in the Four Corners states but has farreaching implications.
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The history of the antiabortion movement in the Four Corners states was praised as a new, insightful work.
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I really like Tiny You by Jennifer Holland, which is the history of the antiabortion movement in the Four Corners states but has farreaching implications.
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