Tucker Carlson Books

Host of the most-watched cable news show in America, Tucker Carlson Tonight, and the best reason to watch Fox News, Tucker is a extremely skilled speaker who’s rants tackle everything you’re not supposed to question.

Starting out as a journalist in the ’90s, if you want any indication of how much the world has changed since then, he started the 2000s working for (ghasp!) CNN. Although, to be fair, even then it seemed surprising that the network let him speak freely as co-host of the debate show Crossfire.

Hardly prolific, Carlson has published just two works many years apart with his first in 2003 and the more recent (2018) “Ship of Fools,” which debuted at #1 on the NY Times Best Seller list – much to the chagrin of everyone at the paper, no doubt.

A proponent of President Donald Trump, Carlson has also been critical of the President when he hasn’t lived up to his populist ideals. Carlson’s views aren’t hard to ascertain. He’s pro Second Amendment, a vocal opponent of open borders and generally opposed to interventionist policy.

Tucker Carlson Books

The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism

There’s a lot more to Tucker Carlson than his nightly rants on Fox News – although those are fantasitc.

With a career thats now 30 years long, this partial memoir takes the reader back to Tucker’s first job as a fact checker in a quarterly magazine and progresses forward with snapshots from tips to Africa, Iraq and the 2016 Presidential campaign trail.

He covers political hot topics but also his personal life, from working the second shift at a baked bean factory to the bucolic beauty of growing up in Maine.

But most importantly Tucker conveys just how dramatic the change has been in America in just 30 years.

Politicians, Partisans, and Parasites: My Adventures in Cable News.

Tucker’s first work, it’s entertaining, fun and of course extremely critical. Tucker details his time on TV and at CNN hosting Crossfire. The book is a fantastic look behind the scenes of how cable news is made, the business of politics and the media, and why they do the things they do. It’s both critical of the news media and in some cases a defence of it. Obviously from the right, it’s less preachy and more personally insightful.

• Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution.

Carlson’s first true political book, Ship of Fools is a harsh critique of the both the Democrats and Republicans and how those in power ignore the wants of those who elect them. In essence this book transcends the current political discourse and instead argues that those currently in power, on both sides of the isle, are benefiting from the current economic and social arrangement while you most certainly are not.

He outlines how the election of Donald Trump wasn’t about Trump at all. “It was a throbbing middle finger in the face of America’s ruling class,” he writes. “It was a gesture of contempt, a howl of rage, the end result of decades of selfish and unwise decisions made by selfish and unwise leaders. Happy countries don’t elect Donald Trump president. Desperate ones do. In retrospect, the lesson seemed obvious: Ignore voters for long enough and you get Donald Trump.”

More than a scathing critique (although there’s plenty of that) Carlson lays out his plan of how to productively get America back on track.