Um, I'll do uh Life and Fate by Vaseli Gman. A really, I think, stunning kind of human portrayal um of the ramifications of the Holocaust in that entire era. Um, Shame by McKenna Goodman, a really, I think, beautiful book of of uh kind of the friction of isolation and dreams and anxiety.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Platner’s Top Campaign Strategist on What Went Wrong” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-morris-katz.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
Um and then um I have not finished it yet but I'm currently reading uh the fourth branch by Daniel Squadron and very much enjoying that and I think it's a really astute um observation of where political power is and how we can kind of shape a government that's on a day-to-day basis improving people's lives.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Platner’s Top Campaign Strategist on What Went Wrong” (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-morris-katz.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
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