Buckley. It's big, uh, but it's it's it's worth it so far from as far as I've gotten. You know, I think it's always interesting to look at these books, um, about, you know, politics and ways that even just a few decades ago, how different American politics was. You know, I think we would also think of, you know, Rick Pearlstein's Nixon Land series, stuff like that.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-will-sommer.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
Um, my second book uh would be James Elroyy's American Tabloid, a novel about uh the Kennedy assassination. If you've enjoyed, you know, thinking putting yourself in kind of conspiratorial mindset, uh, and obviously JFK is in the news with the release of these files, I mean, this book really cannot be beat. One of my favorites and it gets at kind of like the dark heart of America, which is, you know, sometimes a place that's fun to visit.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-will-sommer.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
Um, and then finally, I would say Lucy Sante's uh book, Low Life, about the history of organized crime and kind of skezy characters in New York over the centuries is always a good one to visit and, you know, again, kind of takes you back.
Answering The Ezra Klein Show's closing question, three books to recommend, in “Why Trump Can’t Shake Jeffrey Epstein” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-will-sommer.html). Quoted from the episode's YouTube auto-captions.
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