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Abundance Hardcover – March 18, 2025

by Ezra Klein (Author), Derek Thompson (Author)

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“Spectacular…Offers a comprehensive indictment of the current problems and a clear path forward…Klein and Thompson usher in a mood shift. They inspire hope and enlarge the imagination.” —David Brooks, The New York Times

From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.

To trace the history of the twenty-first century so far is to trace a history of unaffordability and shortage. After years of refusing to build sufficient housing, America has a national housing crisis. After years of limiting immigration, we don’t have enough workers. Despite decades of being warned about the consequences of climate change, we haven’t built anything close to the clean-energy infrastructure we need. Ambitious public projects are finished late and over budget—if they are ever finished at all. The crisis that’s clicking into focus now has been building for decades—because we haven’t been building enough.

Abundance explains that our problems today are not the results of yesteryear’s villains. Rather, one generation’s solutions have become the next generation’s problems. Rules and regulations designed to solve the problems of the 1970s often prevent urban-density and green-energy projects that would help solve the problems of the 2020s. Laws meant to ensure that government considers the consequences of its actions have made it too difficult for government to act consequentially. In the last few decades, our capacity to see problems has sharpened while our ability to solve them has diminished.

Progress requires facing up to the institutions in life that are not working as they need to. It means, for liberals, recognizing when the government is failing. It means, for conservatives, recognizing when the government is needed. In a book exploring how we can move from a liberalism that not only protects and preserves but also builds, Klein and Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and propose a path toward a politics of abundance. At a time when movements of scarcity are gaining power in country after country, this is an answer that meets the challenges of the moment while grappling honestly with the fury so many rightfully feel.

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“Spectacular . . . Offers a comprehensive indictment of the current problems and a clear path forward . . . Klein and Thompson usher in a mood shift. They inspire hope and enlarge the imagination by describing the good things that are actually within our grasp: abundant energy, cheaper housing, affordable cities, shorter workweeks, lab-grown meat so that we no longer have to use 25 percent of global land to raise livestock.” —David Brooks, New York Times

“A terrific book . . . powerful and persuasive . . . People will recruit [Klein and Thompson] to run the Democratic Party.” —Fareed Zakaria, CNN

“Ambitious . . . Klein and Thompson want a ‘liberalism that builds,’ not just in housing and green energy but in artificial intelligence and in drug development, too, areas where they see similar patterns of stagnation. Their goals are broad. This group of policies, which they call the abundance agenda, offers, Klein and Thompson believe, ‘a path out of the morass we’re in. A new political order’ . . . Abundance is a fair-minded book, and it recognizes some of the trade-offs that come with redesigning government for dynamism.” —Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker

“An absolute must-read.” —Stephanie Ruhle, MSNBC

“A potent political manifesto . . . Its optimism is also compelling, even joyous. . . . The book’s core lesson, convincingly delivered, is that liberals ought to make it easier to do the things they want to do. . . . A can-do antidote to blue-state malaise . . . The timing of Abundance is extraordinary.” —Slate

“Helping liberals get out of their own way . . . It’s time to scrutinize everything from municipal zoning regulations to the paperwork requirements for scientists getting federal funding. The authors’ debut as a duo is very smart and eminently useful. Cogent, well-timed ideas for meeting today’s biggest challenges.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson want you to hold space to dream about utopia. No need to tighten the belt, they argue: We have everything we need to build the future that liberals want, clean energy and affordable housing included, today! Their book explains how.” —New York Times

“A forceful, quick-moving broadside against the left-coded pathologies they see as standing in the way. . . . Klein and Thompson’s diagnosis gets much right. . . . A worthy read.” —Financial Times

PRAISE FOR WHY WE’RE POLARIZED BY EZRA KLEIN

“Polarization is the story of American politics today. It affects almost every aspect of American political life and has been studied by scholars from many different angles, with dozens of good historical and experimental approaches. Wouldn’t it be great if someone would digest all these studies, synthesize them and produce a readable book that makes sense of it all? Ezra Klein has done just that with his compelling new work, Why We’re Polarized. . . . Powerful [and] intelligent.” —Fareed Zakaria, CNN

"Why We’re Polarized delivers. . . . What Klein adds especially to [is] our understanding of how we got here—why Trump is more a vessel for our division than the cause, and why his departure will not provide any magical cure. . . . A thoughtful, clear and persuasive analysis.” —Norman Ornstein, New York Times Book Review

"Superbly researched and written . . . Why We’re Polarized provides a highly useful guide to this most central of political puzzles, digesting mountains of social science research and presenting it in an engaging form. . . . An overall outstanding volume." —Francis Fukuyama, The Washington Post

"Brilliant and wide-ranging. A book about what just might be our central, perhaps fatal problem. This is the kind of book you find yourself arguing with out loud as you read it and will stick in your head long after you've finished. Absolutely crucial for understanding this perilous moment." —Chris Hayes, host of “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC and author of A Colony in a Nation

“Klein’s careful book explains how different groups of Americans can see politics through such different lenses, examining how various psychological mechanisms allow committed partisans to rationalize almost anything their party does. . . . This book fully displays the attributes that have made Klein’s journalism so successful.” —Dan Hopkins, Washington Post

“Eye-opening . . . Klein’s brilliant diagnosis and prescription provide a path to understanding—and healing.” —O Magazine

“A fascinating book, rich in politics, history, psychology and more.” —David Leonhardt, New York Times

“Well worth reading.” —Andrew Sullivan, New York magazine

PRAISE FOR HIT MAKERS BY DEREK THOMPSON

“Enthralling—full of ‘aha’ moments about why some ideas soar and others never get off the ground. This book picks up where The Tipping Point left off.” —Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again

“A wonderful book . . . While giving Lady Luck her due, Thompson studiously examines the myriad factors that make the things we buy, like, and follow so irresistible: whether Facebook, TV shows such as Seinfeld, Bumble (the app, not the insect), even favorite lullabies. In Hit Makers, his first book, Thompson tackles this mystery with solid research, ready wit, and catchy aphorisms.” —USA Today

“Superb.” —Fareed Zakaria, CNN Book of the Week selection

“Hit Makers is thoughtful and thorough, a compelling book. . . . A terrific look at what makes a hit, from the Mona Lisa to Donald Trump.” —Vox

“Fascinating . . . Thompson has huge enthusiasm for his topic and has amassed an amazing amount of material, including many offbeat and engaging stories. . . . [Should] be read for insight and provocation.” —Financial Times

“Derek Thompson has long been one of the brightest new voices in American journalism. With Hit Makers, he becomes one of the brightest new voices in the world of non-fiction books. Ranging from Impressionist art to German lullabies to Game of Thrones, Hit Makers offers a fresh and compelling take on how the media function and how ideas spread. As deftly written as it is keenly argued, this book—true to its title—is a hit.” —Daniel H. Pink,New York Times bestselling author of When

About the Author

Ezra Klein is an opinion columnist and host of the award-winning Ezra Klein Show podcast at The New York Times. He is the author of Why We’re Polarized, an instant New York Times bestseller, named one of Barack Obama’s top books of 2022. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the host of the podcast Plain English. He is the author of the national bestseller Hit Makers and On Work, an anthology of his writing on labor and technology. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster (March 18, 2025)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1668023482
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1668023488
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches

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Ezra Klein is the editor-at-large and cofounder of Vox, the award-winning explanatory news organization. Launched in 2014, Vox reaches over 50 million people across its platforms each month. Klein is also the host of the podcast The Ezra Klein Show, cohost of the Weeds podcast, and an executive producer on Vox’s Netflix show, Explained. Previously, Klein was a columnist and editor at The Washington Post, a policy analyst at MSNBC, and a contributor to Bloomberg. He’s written for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, and appeared on Face the Nation, The Daily Show, PBS NewsHour, and many more.
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Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine and a weekly news analyst for NPR's "Here and Now." He was born in McLean, Va., in 1986, and he graduated from Northwestern University, in 2008, with a triple major in journalism, political science, and legal studies. He hasn't done much with the latter two. In 2015, he wrote the cover story "A World Without Work" about the future of jobs and technology. "Hit Makers," his first book on the secret histories of pop culture hits and the science of popularity, comes out in February 2017. He has appeared on Forbes' "30 Under 30" list and Time's "140 Best Twitter Feeds." He lives in Manhattan.
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Bob from Michigan
Every Liberal Must Read This Book
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2025
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This book is exceptional. I happened to get my copy a few days early and absolutely tore through it. If you, like many of us on the left, have been left feeling adrift and a bit hopeless in the last few years, you need to read this book.

It offers an extremely compelling vision for the future. A vision of the left that works, that builds, that grows, and that can work to create a better future for us all. Klein and Thompson take you on a journey, one that exposes all of the flaws and non-workings of the left over the last few decades. They pull no punches. If what you want is a book that blames 100% of our countries problems on the GOP then go back to your cocoon and leave this book alone. It viscerally exposes the way that liberalism has failed to achieve it's very own goals and objectives. The left didn't die because the GOP killed it, the left withered by virtue of its own poor governance. The book shows the myriad ways that us, and the politicians we vote for, have been the hinderance to change that we all know that our society needs.

It's not an easy read - not because the prose is difficult, it's extremely well-written - but because it puts the onus of responsibility for fixing our society back on the ways that we on the left have failed. This moment seems hopeless, but after reading this book I also feel firmly like we have never been better positioned to actually move ourselves forward.

And in the end, this book left me with hope. If we are lucky, this book will go down as one of the most importance political texts of the last 100 years. Read it, tell everyone you know to read it, write to every politician you know and tell them to read it as well. Then get to work doing what you can to Build the American Future.

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Leia D
Optimism based in reality
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2025
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For anyone wondering how it will ever be possible to solve the serious problems out current society is facing, this is the book for you. This book is not a critique of America, though there is plenty of unpacking the mistakes made that got us here. It is a playbook for how we can build a society that provides abundance for all, if we just get out of our own way. It is hopeful and aspirational but not so much that it seems fantastical. Built on solid research this book is a must read for any one who wants to make America work for ALL Americans.

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Sidi
A worthy read regardless of your political leanings.
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2025
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I tend not to agree with a lot of the politics of the authors, however I believe they pursued their endeavor with intellectual honesty and genuine curiosity. And they, wisely I'd add, shine a light on the failings of their own party rather than trying to simple cast aspersions across the aisle. For that reason I think it's an important book for liberals to read to confront parts of their own party that have lost them the white house and congress and equally important to read for conservatives to read who might find themselves persuaded by some of the more centrist ideas contained within.

I hope that everyone who can approach the book with an open mind will come away with some new perspectives. Undoubtedly, there will still be much to disagree with and debate, but it will certainly force you to rethink certain positions, regardless of whether or not it makes you actually change your mind.

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Daniel Zakowski
Great Blueprint for a Brighter Future
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2025
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Abundance is a game-changing read that expertly highlights the urgent need for more housing and energy solutions. The book presents innovative ideas and practical strategies that make a compelling case for sustainable growth. It emphasizes how expanding affordable housing and developing cleaner, more efficient energy sources can transform our communities and drive economic progress. A must-read for anyone passionate about shaping a more secure and abundant future.

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Prodan Statev
The best book to read if you want to be hopeful for the future
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2025
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a transformative political manifesto that could redefine progressive politics for a generation. Far from another dreary policy tome, this book is interesting, well thought-out and sharp. This book will inspire you and give you hope.

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Fascinating, hopeful read
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2025
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This book is what we all need right now to give some hope and a paradigm shift in how to think about moving forward. I also think this topic really brings together people from both sides of the aisle in thinking about how we can all work towards living better lives.

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Ajd041
It's fine
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2025
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Generally I've liked Ezra's work and consider him to be an okay advocate for a version of liberal politics that does a solid job of actually reaching the mainstream given his former position at vox and now at the new york times.

Essentially here he's just recycling a lot of old ideas from liberal politics that our great grandparents would recognize as being leftover from the new deal era - massive social programs and spending with tight regulation to ensure a level playing field. The 50's and 60's were the golden age of american capitalism as many say, and all of the ideas in this book have a distinctively New Deal democrat kind of vibe to them

Where he falls down though is his utter naivete and general smugness and boring tone.

For one, his ideas about a slimmed down work week thanks to AI seem like pure fantasy, utterly devoid from the modern political context. He spends too little time lampooning the nimbys who have been allowed to run roughshod over liberal cities, like they're the PTA version of the old landed gentry. The ideas about climate change are very old hat, and the overall tone of the book is best described as somewhere between podcaster bro from LA and new-age sermon at a non-denomenational church. There are also moments where seemingly related essays from other news sources are kind of shoved in here and they were not integrated well into the book.

It's an okay read. I hope more people actually give it a chance and that democrats can start taking up more of these actual ideas to increase everyone's prosperity rather than just being milquetoast liberals that nobody likes. Would say overall it had some trouble keeping my interest but I wanted to learn more.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2025
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A hopeful book that I really recommend reading. Let’s all change the way we think about the world, our future and our policies by seeing through the lense of abundance!

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