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Philippe Sands

Philippe Sands is a lawyer who’s worked on a number of genocide cases.

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One book that I would take is called Janet Flanner's World uncolcted writings 1932 to 1975. Janet Flanner was the New Yorker correspondent in Europe and she wrote extraordinary letters from Europe including on Nuremberg and they are so pertinent for what we've been talking about today in terms of the historic um aspect.

Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “When Is It Genocide?” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-philippe-sands.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.

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CommonwealthBook Ann Patchett

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A second book by Anne Patchet called Commonwealth which is about relationships.

2025-08-13·youtube.com ↗

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