Episode · The Tucker Carlson Show · 2024-09-02
Tucker Carlson & Darryl Cooper: books mentioned on The Tucker Carlson Show (Sep 2024)
Darryl Cooper: The True History of the Jonestown Cult, WWII, and How Winston Churchill Ruined Europe
Darryl Cooper may be the best and most honest popular historian in the United States. His latest project is the most forbidden of all: trying to understand World War Two.
Darryl Cooper recommended Forgotten Voices of the Secret War by Roderick Bailey and War and Peace by Лев Толстой, and discussed The prince by Niccolò Machiavelli and Beyond the melting pot by Nathan Glazer.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Forgotten Voices of the Secret War
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War by Roderick Bailey is a compelling historical account drawing on firsthand recollections to document clandestine operations during World War II.
Recommended“We know now there's actually a really great series of books, it's one of the best I recommend to everybody, but it's really expensive now, and it's six long volumes called History of British Special Operations in the Second World War.”
Where to get it
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The prince
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli is a foundational political treatise that explores how rulers gain, maintain, and wield power.
Discussed“Because when you think about it, if you go back to think about like, in Machiavelli's The Prince, right?”
Where to get it
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War and Peace
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a monumental literary epic that weaves together the fictional lives of several Russian aristocratic families with the sweeping historical events of the Napoleonic Wars.
Recommended“I was amazed to read in this book called 'The Red Czar.'”
Where to get it
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Beyond the melting pot
Beyond the Melting Pot by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan is a seminal 1963 sociological study examining the persistence of ethnic and racial identities among major groups in New York City.
Discussed“what's the book? Nathan Glazer. And it's beyond the melting pot. You know that he wrote.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“You look like in the book of Acts, when Stephen gets martyred; they freak out and stone him, not when he's making doctrinal points; it's when he gets to the places you murdered him.”