Marc Dunkelman

Products they talk about

• Cadillac Desert👍 Recommends

  …recommending books tracing parallel histories of centralized power and development projects

  “And then the third, you know, to degree my book is in conversation with Robert Caro's The Power Broker. I think that that book was indicative of a way that progressivism used to work, and people too often ascribe it to Moses the man, who was enormously powerful and influential in New York. But there's a book by Mark Reisman called Cadillac Desert, which essentially traces the same arc, with a guy named Floyd Dominey running the Bureau of Reclamation and building dams all across the West.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• Making a New Deal👍 Recommends

  …providing book recommendations at the end of the episode

  “So, the first book I always recommend to anyone is Liza Beth Cohen's Making the New Deal, which I think is the greatest pure book of history that I've ever read.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• Stuck👍 Recommends

  …providing book recommendations on housing policy and geographic mobility

  “The second book, which I hope people will pick up, is Yoni Applebaum's Stuck, which gets to a lot of these issues explicitly in the realm of housing. He talks about how a lack of geographic mobility, for many of the reasons that we have here, has really been the hindrance to socioeconomic mobility. It's a great book.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• The Power Elite💬 Mentioned

  …discussing seminal books in progressive movement history and evolution of thought

  “And there are books like C. Wright Mills' Power Elite. And then the SDS puts out the Port Huron Statement.”

  on The Ezra Klein Show