So, the first book I want to recommend is The Master of the Senate by Robert Caro. I I talk in the book uh about the the fight in Wisconsin and the the way that we under-rigged our state, which wound up requiring the flipping of the state Supreme Court.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “What is the Democratic Party? What Could It Be?” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ben-wikler.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
The second book that I I want to recommend is a book called Seeing Like a State. And this is a a book by someone who used to be a University of Wisconsin professor, actually, James C. Scott. Uh and it's about the ways that utopian projects often fall apart and totally backfire.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “What is the Democratic Party? What Could It Be?” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-ben-wikler.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
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