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The host of Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight offers a blistering critique of the new American ruling class, the elites of both parties, who have taken over the ship of state, leaving the rest of us, the citizen-passengers, to wonder: How do we put the country back on course?
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An incendiary read for all the unabashedly hilarious realities of the world we're stuck in...
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Maybe there was a mutiny overnight. Maybe the captain and first mate fell overboard. You’re not sure. But it’s clear the crew is in charge now and they’ve gone insane. …
You can’t tell them this because they’ve banned acknowledgment of physical reality. ...
As waves wash over the deck, they’re awarding themselves majestic new titles and raising their own salaries. You look on in horror, helpless and des ...more
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Maybe there was a mutiny overnight. Maybe the captain and first mate fell overboard. You’re not sure. But it’s clear the crew is in charge now and they’ve gone insane. …
You can’t tell them this because they’ve banned acknowledgment of physical reality. ...
As waves wash over the deck, they’re awarding themselves majestic new titles and raising their own salaries. You look on in horror, helpless and des ...more
I went into this with an open mind seeing how there are members of both ruling classes on the cover. However, the book is predominately a blast against democrats. I agreed with some of the points in the book but he completely lost me at the end with the last two chapters. I will attribute that to simply not having the same political views as Mr. Carlson. I would have like to have seen a more balanced view. Both sides certainly could use a lambasting at this point in time. They are definitely not
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Congratulations Tucker!
I had a bias to like this book: Carlson has been my favorite FOX personality for many years; way before he got his own show. My favorite story about Tucker is the one Greta Vansusteren did on her Greta Talk podcast. I even wrote about it in my own book ...more
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Congratulations Tucker!
I had a bias to like this book: Carlson has been my favorite FOX personality for many years; way before he got his own show. My favorite story about Tucker is the one Greta Vansusteren did on her Greta Talk podcast. I even wrote about it in my own book ...more
I've enjoyed watching Tucker Carlson on TV for a number of years, finding him for the most part to be a fair and thoughtful interviewer. He has definitely reached a career high with his current prime-time slot on FNC, and now with this new best-seller, "Ship of Fools".
I think most Americans who truly love their country, whatever their political persuasion, know that our culture, public discourse, and social norms are increasingly off the rails in many respects (or maybe "adrift" would be a bett ...more
I think most Americans who truly love their country, whatever their political persuasion, know that our culture, public discourse, and social norms are increasingly off the rails in many respects (or maybe "adrift" would be a bett ...more
I listened to this in the car. It's an excellent overview of the current state of affairs. Tucker describes the whole depressing picture on several levels.
He shows how both political parties have consented to support an interventionist foreign policy. Whereas Democrats once opposed illegal immigration because it lowered wages, they now support it along with many establishment Republicans. Integration was once a goal. Now, some colleges offer racially segregated dorms and even graduations. Civil ...more
He shows how both political parties have consented to support an interventionist foreign policy. Whereas Democrats once opposed illegal immigration because it lowered wages, they now support it along with many establishment Republicans. Integration was once a goal. Now, some colleges offer racially segregated dorms and even graduations. Civil ...more
“Trump’s election wasn’t about Trump. It was a throbbing middle finger in the face of America’s ruling class. 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.”
---Tucker Carlson
This book surprised me. I'm generally not a fan of Tucker, alth ...more
---Tucker Carlson
This book surprised me. I'm generally not a fan of Tucker, alth ...more
Best Political book of 2018: Explains how liberal/conservative establishments invited the Trump revolution
Tucker Carlson’s career skyrocketed in 2016-2017 because he proved himself to be one of the only journalists in America who actually understood Donald Trump and Trumpism — and the causes sown by the liberal and conservative establishments as they lost their way (inviting revolutionary change). Most simply didn’t get it and repeatedly made inaccurate “boy who cried wolf” and Chicken Little pr ...more
Tucker Carlson’s career skyrocketed in 2016-2017 because he proved himself to be one of the only journalists in America who actually understood Donald Trump and Trumpism — and the causes sown by the liberal and conservative establishments as they lost their way (inviting revolutionary change). Most simply didn’t get it and repeatedly made inaccurate “boy who cried wolf” and Chicken Little pr ...more
That was horrifically good. The Left AND RIGHT are politically dangerous.
So here's the problem: U.S. politics is a club of Washington elites who keep themselves in power. And then their kids get into the best schools=- and then up to power. Who cares what party they are necessarily for.
Which makes Trump interesting: He's not fully one of them. He really doesn't care.
And that makes a LOT of political elite angry and nervous. Someone is in power who they can't control.
Yep, lots of fascinating stu ...more
So here's the problem: U.S. politics is a club of Washington elites who keep themselves in power. And then their kids get into the best schools=- and then up to power. Who cares what party they are necessarily for.
Which makes Trump interesting: He's not fully one of them. He really doesn't care.
And that makes a LOT of political elite angry and nervous. Someone is in power who they can't control.
Yep, lots of fascinating stu ...more
Readers who like hearing Tucker Carlson's opinions will appreciate his views here in longer form, and will recognize the style and cadence.
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I would give this book 6 stars if I could. Outstanding. Should be required reading for everyone in the United States. Why didn't I notice any of these changes taking place over the last couple of decades? I thought I was being so careful about what is fact versus what is wishful thinking or propaganda, but my perceptions have been heavily influenced, especially by the news media, and not just because of what is being reported but because of what is NOT being reported. I learned something about m
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Ship of Fools by Tucker Carlson
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This is a worthwhile book for understanding the present moment.
We are in a period of cultural-political crack-up. The conventional wisdom no longer holds. People who we put into one camp or another no longer stay comfortably in their category. Things we rooted for as conservative or liberals, we now abhor.
How did this happen? How does it make sense?
For a young man, Tucker Carls ...more
Please give a helpful vote to my Amazon review - https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-re...
This is a worthwhile book for understanding the present moment.
We are in a period of cultural-political crack-up. The conventional wisdom no longer holds. People who we put into one camp or another no longer stay comfortably in their category. Things we rooted for as conservative or liberals, we now abhor.
How did this happen? How does it make sense?
For a young man, Tucker Carls ...more
Tucker Carlson is one of the many political analysts that appears on FOX News, which has become (or always kind of was, actually) a right-wing propaganda network for the Trump administration. Carlson started off on CNN and MSNBC, perhaps as an alternative viewpoint---the conservative “counterpoint” to the many point/counterpoint-type programs that those generally liberal networks provided. While he claims to be less a conservative than he is a libertarian, Carlson has, some critics have argued,
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If you want to know why Trump is President, this book provides the best explanation currently in print. On the back cover, no less!
If, like me, you are no fan of Chelsea Clinton, this book contains as good an indictment of America’s favorite princeling as I’ve ever read.
(I will additionally confess to nodding a lot while I was reading his takedown of TaNehisi Coates and his enlightened acolytes)
If you want to know what ails America, however, you’ve come to the wrong place.
I was born in Vietnam W ...more
If, like me, you are no fan of Chelsea Clinton, this book contains as good an indictment of America’s favorite princeling as I’ve ever read.
(I will additionally confess to nodding a lot while I was reading his takedown of TaNehisi Coates and his enlightened acolytes)
If you want to know what ails America, however, you’ve come to the wrong place.
I was born in Vietnam W ...more
"Ship of Fools" extends the recent run of books that attack the American ruling class as decayed and awful. However it is characterized, as the professional-management elite, the Front Row Kids, or one of many other labels, all these books argue the ruling class is running our country into the ground, and most argue it is stupid and annoying to boot. I certainly agree, and I also tend to agree with the grim prognostication in the subtitle, that revolution is coming—that is, this will end in bloo
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Is it possible that someone can write a book more tedious and soporific than Alison Weir or Philippa Gregory? I wouldn't have thought so, but Carlson manages to surpass those two. Oh, and that's not a compliment.
This was a tedious, excruciating and rambling mess of facts stated and never sourced with footnotes. Not one. I had to skim a lot, because whatever it was that Carlson was trying to educate us about made no sense and my eyes glazed over.
Stick a fork it in, I'm done with this one. ...more
This was a tedious, excruciating and rambling mess of facts stated and never sourced with footnotes. Not one. I had to skim a lot, because whatever it was that Carlson was trying to educate us about made no sense and my eyes glazed over.
Stick a fork it in, I'm done with this one. ...more
Dec 21, 2018
Martha
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it was amazing
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Ship of Fools was an eye-opener for me. It was not what I expected at all.
I had heard bits and pieces in the news about several topics Tucker Carlson exposes in here and pushed them back into my subconscious- not really thinking seriously about them. But, now, reading these issues more in-depth -the statistics and the potential consequences are alarming! Depressing. One piece that I became more aware -Middle Class is shrinking to a dangerous level.
Tucker writes about the environment which makes ...more
I had heard bits and pieces in the news about several topics Tucker Carlson exposes in here and pushed them back into my subconscious- not really thinking seriously about them. But, now, reading these issues more in-depth -the statistics and the potential consequences are alarming! Depressing. One piece that I became more aware -Middle Class is shrinking to a dangerous level.
Tucker writes about the environment which makes ...more
A primetime Fox News host is not the person many people would expect to see sounding notes of skepticism about capitalism, hotly criticizing America's foreign interventions, and strongly critiquing the neoliberal order, but Tucker Carlson has somehow managed to get away with almost single-handedly providing an intellectual basis for populist nationalism in the Republican Party and broadcasting it to his millions of viewers. This book is great in that he eloquently analyzes and castigates the fai
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I hope people don't dismiss this book because Tucker Carlson is right leaning and works for the hated Fox News.
This is an important book. The trends that have been happening in this country over the last 15 years or so, are things I don't believe the majority of the population want. Someone is driving these changes, and you can't help but reach the conclusion that it is the elites. After seeing their wealth grow exponentially, they are definitely afraid of us peasants, rightly believing that we ...more
This is an important book. The trends that have been happening in this country over the last 15 years or so, are things I don't believe the majority of the population want. Someone is driving these changes, and you can't help but reach the conclusion that it is the elites. After seeing their wealth grow exponentially, they are definitely afraid of us peasants, rightly believing that we ...more
Solid and worth reading.
3.5 stars and rated upwards for the factual information. Especially upon the points of how there are really no longer two separate political parties in the USA, but elites as a ruling class and the serfs.
Read it and weep. Because it is super depressive for those who truly believe the type of government founded in the USA will continue. It's very doubtful. Especially upon the subjects of military /defense roles and past "morality" definitions of "our values" within just a decade or 15 years just ...more
Read it and weep. Because it is super depressive for those who truly believe the type of government founded in the USA will continue. It's very doubtful. Especially upon the subjects of military /defense roles and past "morality" definitions of "our values" within just a decade or 15 years just ...more
I love a book that makes me examine my lines in the sand! Even better if I have to adjust them even slightly. One example is Free Speech versus Hate Speech. Black and white right? Maybe not as must as I thought.......
I have one big complaint. The author constantly attacks the left. If he wanted to reach a larger audience he could have easily spread the blame to everyone. Left, Right, Blue, Red, old, young, pink or purple.
If you can read this book with just the slightest of an open mind you migh ...more
I have one big complaint. The author constantly attacks the left. If he wanted to reach a larger audience he could have easily spread the blame to everyone. Left, Right, Blue, Red, old, young, pink or purple.
If you can read this book with just the slightest of an open mind you migh ...more
I usually read apoptotic and dystopian books
Well Tucker this book scared the Hell out of me. I never read political books but I was intrigued by the title and decided to give it a try. I usually purchase Prime free books and your book was very expensive. I am glad I have a dictionary on my kindle - I enjoyed the learning experience. I am going back to apocalyptic and prepper books. But seriously I appreciate your book and thank you for writing it. I watch you on Fox every night.
Well Tucker this book scared the Hell out of me. I never read political books but I was intrigued by the title and decided to give it a try. I usually purchase Prime free books and your book was very expensive. I am glad I have a dictionary on my kindle - I enjoyed the learning experience. I am going back to apocalyptic and prepper books. But seriously I appreciate your book and thank you for writing it. I watch you on Fox every night.
Fascinating (and terrifying at times), very hard to put down. A real page-turner. Also, relatable, even to a European. It is a ruthless diagnosis of the ruling elites, showing how divorced from reality and common sense they have become. It is happening in Europe too. Let's hope some of the trends Carlon talks about are still reversible. Overall, a great read.
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Oct 20, 2018
John Mccandlish
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I encourage people to read this book. My four star rating certainly does NOT reflect my agreement with all of his points and arguments. However, debate and understanding of other viewpoints is important. Compared to many other right-wing books, Tucker I think makes a lot of valid points.
However, I am dinging him one-star because I don't think he put himself really out there. I suspect he wants to protect his viewership on Fox by not calling out Trump when appropriate. Tucker never once mention T ...more
However, I am dinging him one-star because I don't think he put himself really out there. I suspect he wants to protect his viewership on Fox by not calling out Trump when appropriate. Tucker never once mention T ...more
Disappointing. I generally like Carlson's cutting wit and strong liberal democratic bent (small "d"), but here he rambles aimlessly without ever getting to the point. The book's subtitle is entirely out of place, as the only mention of "revolution" comes in the last few pages of the Epilogue.
More importantly, he continually contradicts himself, such as when he spends a chapter discussing freedom of speech (the best section of the book), then proceeds to berate and belittle the likes of Leonardo ...more
More importantly, he continually contradicts himself, such as when he spends a chapter discussing freedom of speech (the best section of the book), then proceeds to berate and belittle the likes of Leonardo ...more
I've already known for years, if not decades, government officials in Washington, D.C., are vastly out of touch with the people who elected them. Anyone who even partially pays attention knows this. Senators, Representatives, judges, and so many more are insulated in their own little world never to suffer from the harsh realities the consequences of their careers have on the rest of the nation. It's definitely trickle-down but not economically speaking. Ha! In 2020, what's right is now considere
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I don't normally read books like this but after endlessly complaining about the behavior of the ACLU in the Cavanaugh hearing, at the recommendation of a friend decided to give this a try. The book is largely an overreach, but it makes enough good points, and I think it's important enough to the general discourse, that I can recommend it. Tucker has the most popular show on cable television, and it's important to understand the arguments across the full political spectrum, even if you don't agre ...more
A Worthwhile Listening Experience
Tucker Carlson is a long-time Washington journalist and has his own show on the Fox News network. In SHIP OF FOOLS, Carlson takes his years of reporting and gathers facts and stories about the behind the scenes politics in Washington. I listened to the audiobook version for this book and found the information engaging, fascinating and insightful.
Carlson’s story about conservative commentator Bill Kristol, founder and editor at large for tne now defunct Weekly St ...more
Tucker Carlson is a long-time Washington journalist and has his own show on the Fox News network. In SHIP OF FOOLS, Carlson takes his years of reporting and gathers facts and stories about the behind the scenes politics in Washington. I listened to the audiobook version for this book and found the information engaging, fascinating and insightful.
Carlson’s story about conservative commentator Bill Kristol, founder and editor at large for tne now defunct Weekly St ...more
A must read. More in depth review to follow.
Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution by Tucker Carlson
“Ship of Fools” is an entertaining yet defective critique on the current state of political affairs. Fox News host Tucker Carlson takes the readers on a journey through the new reality of America, to those who benefit from the status quo, and those who don’t and the leaders who are fools of a sinking ship. This provocative 241-page book includes the following seven chapters: 1. The Convergen ...more
“Ship of Fools” is an entertaining yet defective critique on the current state of political affairs. Fox News host Tucker Carlson takes the readers on a journey through the new reality of America, to those who benefit from the status quo, and those who don’t and the leaders who are fools of a sinking ship. This provocative 241-page book includes the following seven chapters: 1. The Convergen ...more
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“Trump’s election wasn’t about Trump. It was a throbbing middle finger in the face of America’s ruling class. 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.”
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