Books Recommended by Ezra Klein
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Stealth Democracy
Americans' Beliefs About How Government Should Work
John R. Hibbing
Source: "One of the more frustrating dynamics in politics is many voters assume that if something was good or obvious, it'd be bipartisan, and if it's not, that means something is wrong." - Ezra Klein
1 recommender
What We Owe the Future
William MacAskill
Source: "Will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better." - Ezra Klein
Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop
The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America
Lee Drutman
Source: "He's more optimistic than I am about multiparty democracy solving our ills, but he's absolutely right on the structural nature of two-party duopoly." - Ezra Klein
1 recommender
The Price of Peace
Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Zachary D. Carter
Source: "A brilliant exploration of the question 'what is economics for?' disguised as an excellent biography of John Maynard Keynes." - Ezra Klein
2 recommenders
The Ministry for the Future
A Novel
Kim Stanley Robinson
Source: "Near-future fiction about the world climate change is creating, and how it will change us, and we will change it." - Ezra Klein
2 recommenders
Beyond Ideology
Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U. S. Senate
Frances E. Lee
Source: "The book that is probably the most influential for me in thinking about how American politics really works." - Ezra Klein
1 recommender
Down Girl
The Logic of Misogyny
Kate Manne
Source: "One of a few essential texts for understanding politics (and American life) today." - Ezra Klein
1 recommender
Something Deeply Hidden
Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Sean Carroll
Source: "Great if you like feeling very confused about the nature of reality, which I guess I do." - Ezra Klein
2 recommenders
Let the People Pick the President
The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
Jesse Wegman
Source: "Great if you want to go deep on the case against the electoral college." - Ezra Klein
1 recommender
Why the Electoral College Is Bad for America
George C. Edwards III
Source: "Not the friendliest [tour] through American politics but [it is] the most information rich." - Ezra Klein
1 recommender
On Deaf Ears
The Limits of the Bully Pulpit
George C. Edwards III
Source: "Not the friendliest [tour] through American politics but [it is] the most information rich." - Ezra Klein
1 recommender
Predicting the Presidency
The Potential of Persuasive Leadership
George C. Edwards III
Source: "Not the friendliest [tour] through American politics but [it is] the most information rich." - Ezra Klein
1 recommender
The Polarized Presidency of George W. Bush
George C. Edwards III
Source: "Not the friendliest [tour] through American politics but [it is] the most information rich." - Ezra Klein
1 recommender
Overreach
Leadership in the Obama Presidency
George C. Edwards III
Source: "Not the friendliest [tour] through American politics but [it is] the most information rich." - Ezra Klein
1 recommender
The Gamble
Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election
John Sides
Source: "A series of political scientists on the 2012 election I think is really helpful." - Ezra Klein
1 recommender
The Shallows
What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr
Source: "One of the most prescient books of the digital age." - Ezra Klein
3 recommenders
Creativity, Inc.
Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull
Source: "An amazing, amazing book." - Ezra Klein
This is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar
Source: Ezra Klein recommended this book on Twitter.
3 recommenders
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2 recommenders
No Bad Kids
Toddler Discipline Without Shame
Janet Lansbury
Source: Ezra Klein recommended this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
1 recommender
The WEIRDest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Joseph Henrich
Source: Ezra Klein recommended this book on Twitter.
2 recommenders
The Extended Mind
The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Annie Murphy Paul
Source: Ezra Klein recommended this book on Twitter.
2 recommenders
Children of Time
Children of Time, Book 1
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Source: Ezra Klein recommended this book on Twitter.
3 recommenders
2 recommenders
Locking Up Our Own
Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman, Jr.
Source: Ezra Klein recommended this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
4 recommenders
The Sabbath World
Glimpses of a Different Order of Time
Judith Shulevitz
Source: Ezra Klein recommended this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
4 recommenders
The Alignment Problem
Machine Learning and Human Values
Brian Christian
Source: Ezra Klein recommended this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
How to Do Nothing
Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
Source: "Hit me particularly hard." - Ezra Klein
2 recommenders
1 recommender
What It Takes
The Way to the White House
Richard Ben Cramer
Source: "Everybody should read it." - Ezra Klein
1 recommender
Under a White Sky
The Nature of the Future
Elizabeth Kolbert
Source: "An incredible book." - Ezra Klein
2 recommenders
1 recommender
Give People Money
How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
Annie Lowrey
Source: "Brilliant book." - Ezra Klein
2 recommenders
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