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Every book Darryl Cooper recommended on podcasts
Across 2 podcasts. Every show Darryl Cooper appears on, in one place — not just one.
Darryl Cooper’s most recommended books
- Forgotten Voices of the Secret War by Roderick Bailey
- Hitler by Ian Kershaw
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- War and Peace by Лев Толстой
- Beyond the melting pot by Nathan Glazer
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- Space Relations by Donald Barr
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Darryl Cooper is an American right-wing podcaster who has made Nazi apologist claims. In 2024, Cooper gained prominence after appearing on The Joe Rogan Experience and The Tucker Carlson Show. During his podcast appearances, Cooper discussed and recommended several historical and literary works. He recommended Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov on The Tucker Carlson Show, explaining that reading classic literature helped him build an immune system against anti-Russian propaganda. On The Joe Rogan Experience, he recommended Ian Kershaw's biography Hitler as a great book by a good historian despite potential bias. On The Tucker Carlson Show, he also recommended the six-volume series History of British Special Operations in the Second World War (published as Forgotten Voices of the Secret War) and discussed War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Additionally, Cooper discussed Philip Roth's The Plot Against America in relation to generational trauma, Donald Barr's Space Relations in connection with Jeffrey Epstein, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita regarding Epstein's private plane, and Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf during historical analysis.
Books recommended by Darryl Cooper
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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.”
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Hitler
Ian Kershaw's massive, definitive two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler provides an exhaustive historical examination of the dictator's life, rise to power, and the regime he forged.
Recommended“you read like The the most recent sort of great Hitler biography by Ian Kershaw is a great book he's a good historian an excellent writer and you know you have to learn to kind of see through that pmic uh a little bit and then you have you know a good history on your hand”
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a complex philosophical novel that delves deeply into faith, doubt, free will, and morality through the turbulent relationships of the Karamazov family.
Recommended“I guess I'm I'm really grateful that Dostoevsky's been my favorite author since I was in high school because it made it so that uh you know, when I started getting bombarded on all sides with anti-Russian propaganda, it was just I had an immune system built up to it because I already love these people, you know. Anyone who”
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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.'”
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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.”
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita centers on the deeply disturbing relationship between an adult narrator and a young girl whom he exploits across America.
Discussed“His private plane... was nicknamed the Lolita Express. Lolita is a novel written by Nabokov about a guy, based on a true story, actually about a guy who takes a 12 year old girl, kidnaps her and takes her on a kind of odyssey across the country, raping her over the course of those two years. It's a novel about”
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Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler that outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.
Discussed“and he says in my comp that it really caused him like a moral crisis you know an ideological crisis”
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Space Relations
Space Relations by Donald Barr is a 1973 science fiction novel featuring interplanetary travel, elite oligarchies, and themes of sexual exploitation.
Discussed“One of the books that he wrote... is called Space Relations, and he wrote it right around this time that he hired Jeffrey Epstein.”
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The Iliad
The Iliad by Homer is an ancient Greek epic poem that chronicles the fierce battles, heroic deeds, and tragic human costs surrounding the final weeks of the Trojan War.
Discussed“everyone knew the Iliad they knew the story of the conquest of Troy and all that but he wrote the story from the perspective”
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The Plot Against America
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth is a prominent alternate history novel that imagines an America turning toward fascism during World War II following the political rise of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh.
Discussed“There was an interview a few years back uh with Winona Ryder when she made um the TV series of that Philip Roth book um Plot Against America or Plot Against the United States.”
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The prince
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli is a classic 16th-century political treatise offering a pragmatic, unflinching guide on how political power is acquired, maintained, and wielded.
Discussed“Because when you think about it, if you go back to think about like, in Machiavelli's The Prince, right?”
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Appearances
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“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.”