The Long Slide, Thirty Years in American Journalism is a Home Run
Tucker Carlson notes in his Introduction of The Long Slide, Thirty Years in American Journalism : “Americans should be able to read whatever books they want, publishers told us, but they should start with the books authorities have tried to suppress.” I can’t imagine any authority trying to suppress the 15 articles Carlson included in this sampling of his works published over the last 30 years, and I haven’t enjoyed articles/essays this much since reading Tom Wolfe’s The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby . That’s been a long dry spell, so I’m glad I decided to read this book. My favorite articles (listed with their original source and publication date) were: “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” Esquire 2003, is a great choice to open the book with. Carlson documents his rich experiences traveling with Al Sharpton and a “delegation of American civil-rights activists into the middle of the Liberian civil war” with the hopes of brokering a peac...