Oh, I think everyone should read the Gulag Archipelago. I think that that is such a wonderful book. I I And this is Alexander Soljaniten. It's a It's a story of his time in the, you know, a Soviet prison camp, but it's so much more than that. It's three volumes. It's got a history of Russia. It's got a history of the Soviet Union. It's got um well, it's got it's got poetry.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Will Iran Break Trumpism?” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-christopher-caldwell.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
Anthony Lucas's Common Ground, which is a book about busing in Boston. And um which is kind of the first um political event that I have any memory of from, you know, from being a child.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Will Iran Break Trumpism?” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-christopher-caldwell.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
And and um and then I guess if if I could recommend a baseball book, a book that really sort of changed the way I sort of I don't know [snorts] look at both sports and writing is is Ball Four by Jim Boutton. I don't know if you know that book, but
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Will Iran Break Trumpism?” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-christopher-caldwell.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
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