Ezra Klein

“The book that is probably the most influential for me in thinking about how American politics really works.”

“@AGKD123 I read Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth this year too, went on a real Tchaikovsky kick! They're all great, but CoT is a masterwork, even if Shards is, in some ways, probably a more wellconstructed book.”

“Highly recommend @leedrutman's book if you do want to understand this issue. He's more optimistic than I am about multiparty democracy solving our ills, but he's absolutely right on the structural nature of twoparty duopoly:”

“A series of books on presidential rhetoric. Those are books that are not the friendliest tours through American politics but they are the most information rich.”

“One of the more frustrating dynamics in politics is many voters assume that if something was good or obvious, it'd be bipartisan, and if it's not, that means something is wrong. (The book Stealth Democracy is very, very good on this.)”

“A few fiction books I've loved recently: NK Jemisin's "The City We Became" Amal ElMohtar and Max Gladstone's "This is How You Lose the Time War" Kevin Wilson's "Nothing to See Here" They're all beautiful writing built on fantastical premises. Got any more recommendations”

“A series of political scientists on the 2012 election I think is really helpful.”