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From the War on Poverty to the War on CrimeBook

by Elizabeth Hinton

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Steven Hahn
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Um uh uh two other books um Elizabeth Hinton's book from the war on poverty to the war on crime which focuses on the 1960s into the early 1970s and is I think a very very interesting way of understanding how um illiberal sensibilities kind of infuse their way into what are major modern liberal projects and paved the way for mass mass incarceration, which I learned a lot from.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “The Very American Roots of Trumpism” (https://nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-steven-hahn.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

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