Ezra Klein Show Recommends - 2024
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The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA
by:
Diane Vaughan
4.09 avg rating โ 436 ratings 2. 
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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Michael Lewis
3.99 avg rating โ 62,918 ratings 3. 
The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
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Michio Kaku
4.11 avg rating โ 8,089 ratings 
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin 4.34 avg rating โ 2,437 ratings
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins 3.97 avg rating โ 7,631 ratings
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Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942
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Max Hastings
4.25 avg rating โ 1,901 ratings 8. 
Into the Heart of Romans: A Deep Dive into Paul's Greatest Letter
by:
Tom Wright
4.44 avg rating โ 669 ratings 9. 
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
by:
James L. Swanson
4.16 avg rating โ 34,162 ratings 
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Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP
by:
Patrick Ruffini
4.15 avg rating โ 201 ratings 
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by:
Erik Larson
4.30 avg rating โ 132,014 ratings 
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating โ 89,926 ratings 
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Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948โ2020
by:
Amory Gethin
3.74 avg rating โ 39 ratings 20. 
Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War 4.03 avg rating โ 120 ratings
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The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution
by:
Yuri Slezkine
4.15 avg rating โ 1,039 ratings 22. 
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
by:
Andrew Solomon
4.27 avg rating โ 22,183 ratings 
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Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS
by:
Gay Talese
3.95 avg rating โ 1,806 ratings 25. 
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron Acemoฤlu
4.09 avg rating โ 59,216 ratings 
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Quiet Revolution: Struggle for the Democratic Party and the Shaping of Post-Reform Politics
by:
Byron E. Shafer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating โ 2 ratings 31. 
The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century
by:
Benn Steil
3.75 avg rating โ 101 ratings 32. 
Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
by:
Ian Johnson
4.36 avg rating โ 579 ratings 33. 
Diplomats at War: Friendship and Betrayal on the Brink of the Vietnam Conflict 4.51 avg rating โ 47 ratings
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Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade 4.26 avg rating โ 122 ratings
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Before Roe v. Wade: Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling
by:
Linda Greenhouse
3.98 avg rating โ 89 ratings 
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A Nation Without Borders: The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910
by:
Steven Hahn
4.01 avg rating โ 298 ratings 43. 
The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War 4.09 avg rating โ 2,491 ratings
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The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future
by:
Paul Sabin
3.69 avg rating โ 389 ratings 46. 
Reproductive States: Global Perspectives on the Invention and Implementation of Population Policy
by:
Rickie Solinger
4.20 avg rating โ 5 ratings 47. 
Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives
by:
Mary Blair-Loy
3.91 avg rating โ 64 ratings 48. 
Mothering While Black: Boundaries and Burdens of Middle-Class Parenthood
by:
Dawn Marie Dow
4.10 avg rating โ 70 ratings 49. 
Hope in the Dark: The Untold History of People Power
by:
Rebecca Solnit
3.98 avg rating โ 11,386 ratings 50. 
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 1848 4.16 avg rating โ 8,618 ratings
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After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division
by:
Samuel Goldman
3.81 avg rating โ 78 ratings 52. 
The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology
by:
Fritz Stern
4.10 avg rating โ 160 ratings 53. 
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by:
Robert J. Gordon
4.19 avg rating โ 2,091 ratings 54. 
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch
by:
Lewis Dartnell
3.76 avg rating โ 3,527 ratings 
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The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
by:
Thomas Frank
3.84 avg rating โ 773 ratings 57. 
Liar in a Crowded Theater: Freedom of Speech in a World of Misinformation
by:
Jeff Kosseff
4.12 avg rating โ 66 ratings 
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Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants
by:
James Vincent
3.85 avg rating โ 1,222 ratings 
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Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
by:
Lily Geismer
4.19 avg rating โ 110 ratings 66. 
The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism
by:
Adam Rome
3.71 avg rating โ 241 ratings 67. 
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
by:
George Saunders
4.54 avg rating โ 23,129 ratings 
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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World โ and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
by:
Hans Rosling
4.36 avg rating โ 197,296 ratings 
77. 
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by:
David Epstein
4.13 avg rating โ 76,407 ratings 
79. 
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
by:
Taylor Branch
4.36 avg rating โ 9,962 ratings 
82. 
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
by:
Anna Lembke
3.90 avg rating โ 72,998 ratings 
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Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of International Law
by:
Antony Anghie
4.37 avg rating โ 79 ratings 85. 
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
by:
Noura Erakat
4.57 avg rating โ 891 ratings 86. 
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
by:
Adom Getachew
4.06 avg rating โ 290 ratings 87. 
The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them
by:
Aziz Rana
4.21 avg rating โ 28 ratings 88. 
The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity
by:
Ardi Imseis
4.67 avg rating โ 6 ratings 89. 
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
by:
Cesar A. Hidalgo
3.97 avg rating โ 1,477 ratings 90. 
The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It) (New Threats to Freedom Series) 3.73 avg rating โ 129 ratings
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โฟป ๆธไฝ Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
by:
E. Glen Weyl
3.60 avg rating โ 40 ratings 
