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Every book Ian Carroll recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Ian Carroll has recommended or discussed 8 books on podcasts, as of June 12, 2025.
- Ian Carroll has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of June 12, 2025.
- Those books came up in 5 episodes, as of June 12, 2025.
- The 3 books Ian Carroll has mentioned in the most episodes, as of June 12, 2025: Hillbilly Elegy, One Nation under Blackmail and War Is a Racket.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Ian Carroll aired on June 12, 2025.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Ian Carroll appears on, in one place — not just one.
Ian Carroll’s most recommended books
- Hillbilly Elegy by J D Vance
- One Nation under Blackmail by Whitney Alyse Webb
- War Is a Racket by Smedley Butler
- Chaos by Tom O'Neill
- Original Sin by Jake Tapper
- The Last President or 1900 by Ingersoll Lockwood
- The Real Anthony Fauci by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
- The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr
Ian Robert Carroll was an Australian television executive, primarily at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), who established news and current affairs programs like Lateline and the 7.30 Report, developed digital services such as iView, and died on August 19, 2011. During podcast appearances, Carroll recommended several books, including Whitney Webb's One Nation Under Blackmail, which he described as super dense, and Smedley Butler's War Is a Racket, calling it a relatively short book that anyone can buy online. He also discussed other works on air, such as Benjamin Lorr's The Secret Life of Groceries to illustrate the realities of long-haul trucking, J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy to highlight biographical discrepancies, Tom O'Neill's Chaos to examine corrupt police departments and federal agencies, and Ingersoll Lockwood's The Last President or 1900 as part of a three-part series. Additionally, he brought up Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's Original Sin to critique media coverage of political figures.
Books recommended by Ian Carroll
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Hillbilly Elegy
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D.
Discussed“It's also worth noting that in his book, Hillbilly Elegy, he claimed he changed his name on his wedding day in 2014, but his legal name change took place in April of 2013, just before he graduated from Yale.”
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One Nation under Blackmail
One Nation under Blackmail by Whitney Alyse Webb is a heavily researched, two-volume investigation into the historical connections between organized crime, intelligence agencies, and elite blackmail rings, including the operations surrounding Jeffrey Epstein.
Recommended“One Nation Under blackmail one nation under black by highly recommend but it's super dense”
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War Is a Racket
War Is a Racket is a sharp, compact 1933 critique of military intervention and financial profiteering written by Major General Smedley D.
Recommended“yes war is a racket is a relatively short book that anyone can buy online and I highly recommend it to everyone”
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Chaos
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill is a deeply researched investigative book that explores hidden government programs, mind control experiments, and unanswered questions surrounding the Manson family murders.
Discussed“And it made me really think about the book chaos that so many people on my podcast have listened to and watched. I mean have listened to and it's describing a corrupt LAPD with feds that are involved and know how to disappear certain things and we know that to be factually true based on the Charles Manson murders.”
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Original Sin
Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson is a political non-fiction book detailing President Joe Biden's political decline, the internal cover-up surrounding his health, and his controversial choice to run for reelection in 2024.
Critiqued“Here he is this year plugging his book, Original Sin. Alex Thompson of Axios and I have spent the last several months talking to more than 200 insiders and officials and donors and activists more willing to talk post election of course to explain the last couple years in politics”
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The Last President or 1900
The Last President or 1900 is a late nineteenth-century speculative novel by Ingersoll Lockwood that depicts a chaotic New York City gripped by political unrest following the unexpected victory of a populist presidential candidate.
Discussed“I got it in a three-part series that has the the baron Trump one and then the last president and there's one other one”
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The Real Anthony Fauci
Robert F.
Discussed“rfk's book the real Anthony fouchy opened my eyes in a big way in mine as well”
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The Secret Life of Groceries
The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr is an immersive nonfiction exploration of the dark miracles and intricate logistics behind the American supermarket industry.
Discussed“In The Secret Life of Groceries, Benjamin Lord does a profile on a trucker that he rode with for a week while he was trying to learn about the shipping and logistics that go into our groceries.”
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Appearances
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“We'll have to do another dig another day about the Nazi rocket scientist Wernner von Braonn who wrote this book in 1953 about a man named Elon that colonized Mars.”