Um for the fiction book, um my favorite book is Lonesome Dove by Larry McMerry. to be the most famous and beloved Texas classic. Um, Texas has gotten a bad rap recently around the world for the extremism and corruption coming out of our government. But if you want to see what's beautiful about our state, that spirit of friendship that I mentioned earlier, read Lonesome Dove.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-james-talarico.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
Uh it is Jesus and the disinherited by Howard Thurman. Uh we mentioned Dr. King on this show. Howard Thurman was his spiritual mentor, the theologian who who started to to chart that course uh long before Dr. King. and he wrote this book from a series of lectures in Austin, Texas, uh at um at Houston Tillison University, historically black college in Austin. And it is it's a beautiful book.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-james-talarico.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
The UpswingBookRobert D. Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett
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And then the last um last book is the political book and it's the upswing um by Robert Putnham and his co-author I think her name is Shaylen uh Romney Garrett and the book is is all about how throughout the 20th century we as a country as a culture moved from individualism in the guilded age toward communitarianism to working
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Can James Talarico Reclaim Christianity for the Left?” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-james-talarico.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
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