Um, well, first of all, I think uh Toqueville's Democracy in America would be a good place to start. not going into it thinking of it as the iconic text, but going into it thinking about it as someone who is an observer from the outside looking in uh and who has, you know, both uh admiration and reservations.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “The Very American Roots of Trumpism” (https://nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-steven-hahn.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
Um uh uh two other books um Elizabeth Hinton's book from the war on poverty to the war on crime which focuses on the 1960s into the early 1970s and is I think a very very interesting way of understanding how um illiberal sensibilities kind of infuse their way into what are major modern liberal projects and paved the way for mass mass incarceration, which I learned a lot from.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “The Very American Roots of Trumpism” (https://nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-steven-hahn.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
And the the third book is a book by Lawrence Powell called Troubled Memory. Uh Annne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Dukes, Louisiana. It's an extraordinary story about a woman who was part of the only whole family to make it out of the lots ghetto and they end up in New Orleans.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “The Very American Roots of Trumpism” (https://nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-steven-hahn.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
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