Books You Should Read Instead of Jake Tapper’s
Alex Burton signed this still for me when we worked together at KRLD.
It is a truism that political books often have an expiration date. Politicians and pundits often write them about some issue that nobody cares about six week later. But there are some books that have meant a lot to me, and I’d suggest you go to a used bookstore and find one of them instead of wasting your money on Jake Tapper’s book about Biden’s mental decline.
Tapper knows that he was part of the cover-up, and yes, he’s shameless to write this book, but he doesn’t care. He has a network behind him to push it and that’s what he cares about.
So don’t buy it.
Instead, curl up with a book that will entertain, inform, and inspire you. Read Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand, And Then Then were None by Agatha Christie, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card, and Bill O’Reilly’s “Killing” series. And you’re off to a great start.
AUDIO: Random Samplings of a Logical Mind
Do books even have a future?
When I was starting out in radio, books were huge. Newspapers had a book review section, and even all-talk radio stations such as KRLD where I worked often reviewed them. In fact, it was Alex Burton, a commentator on KRLD (and a household name in Dallas) who got me started reading them – and then writing them. Alex would get a book in the mail, read it, review it, and sometimes pass it on to me. That was the case with two books by the same author – Isaac Asimov.
The first book was entitled Buy Jupiter, and it was a collection of Asimov’s science fiction stories. The second boon was Tales of the Black Widowers, a collection of mystery stories about a debating society based on a real one known as “The Trapdoor Spiders.” I read them, and became a lifelong Asimov fan as well as a constant reader of science fiction and classic mysteries.
So, know this: George Lucas’ concepts in “Star Wars” were a lot like Asimov’s in his iconic Foundation trilogy (as Darth Vader is eerily similar to the Marvel Comics villain Dr. Doom). If you’ve never read Foundation, you ought to. “The Mule” is one of the great villains of literature, and is worth reading for that and for Hari Seldon’s concepts of psychohistory. Yes, it’s fiction, but you still learn a lot, and you learn grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation far easier than you ever learned in school.
The fact that I can write today; that I wrote columns for the Dallas Morning News for over a decade, and that I have seven books in print is not due to anything I learned in school. I can write because I read classic authors like Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Rand, Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Mary Roberts Rinehart and so many more.
I have no idea whether these authors are still in vogue anymore. But they were the world to me when I was young, and the older I get, the more I try to expand my reading horizons. Now we have books in print, audiobooks, and eBooks, but I still prefer print. On the other hand, most of the people I know have eBook readers or listen on audiobooks, or have switched to podcasts to fill their time. As for me, nary a night goes by without reading a few chapters – usually a taut mystery these days – from a printed book before I fall asleep.
Here are a few books that have meant a lot to me.
I would say that most anything would be better to read than Jake Tapper’s book about Biden’s decline which does what? – exposes Tapper’s own culpability in covering up Biden’s failing faculties? Why even publish such an atrocity? Oh yes, money.
But let’s move on to books with some real value.
This is one of my favorite books: “The Power of Logical Thinking” by Marilyn vos Savant.
In 1996, Marilyn vos Savant published a book entitled The Power of Logical Thinking. That, of course, is right down my alley. Her politics and mine may or may not be the same, but her approach to thinking is. She is a master of riddles and puzzles – the most famous of which is the “Monty Hall Dilemma.” Look it up. It will make you – even force you – to think. The book is a jewel, and I have my copy to this day.
Ann Coulter’s 2003 book, Treason, opened my eyes on several subjects. From it, I learned more about Alger Hiss, Joe McCarthy, Whittaker Chambers, and the Pumpkin Papers than I ever learned in school. Read it. It’s not dated one iota.
Before he got into “Rush Revere,” the late and much-missed talk host Rush Limbaugh (and his ghost writers) came out with The Way Things Ought to Be, and See, I Told You So. Both remain on my bookshelf.
In The Third Terrorist, Oklahoma City newscaster Jayna Davis claimed that she found other conspirators in the Oklahoma City bombing. A fascinating read that never was substantiated, but that a lot of people still believe.
Patrick J. Buchanan opened my eyes to “dying populations” in his book The Death of the West. The counter to The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich, Buchanan’s book has proven to contain more truth.
Peter Schweizer wrote a book in 2011 entitled Throw Them All Out about how politicians get rich off the system. It was scandalous at the time, but it’s common knowledge now. It’s a book worth reading and keeping for reference.
Awesome books written by my own friends.
Patrick Mallon wrote a book called California Dictatorship about the fall of former Governor Gray Davis. Read it if you want to know how California got the way it is.
My good friend Todd Baumann, writing under his pseudonym, Ben Barrack, wrote Unsung Davids: Ten Men Who Battled Goliath Without Glory, an amazing testament to American heroes who risked their reputations to expose corruption, and co-wrote The Case for Islamophobia with Walid Shoebat. Both are still great reads.
John C. Perry, an expert on the subject of the War Between the States, wrote a fabulous book entitled Myths & Realities of America Slavery – highly researched and a book intended to set the record straight.
My friend at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Chuck DeVore wrote the book I am currently reading, entitled Crisis of the House Never United, a what-if book about what might have happened in the days when Aaron Burr and others did not want ratification of the Constitution. 
I plug my books from time to time, but if you’re saving your money by not buying Tapper’s book, check out Stitches in Time: A Trilogy, in which a one-world government is finally realized, but one man wants to bring back the United States of America.
I am learning, however, that Americans don’t have such time to read any more. Reviews for Stiches in Time are far more favorable than I ever imagined, but sales are slow. I find that sad.
I imagine all book sales are slower than at any time in history – but that’s what technology does. Perhaps, someday, printed books will return to popularity as vinyl records have done.
In the meantime, if you’re going to skip over a book, Tapper’s is an excellent choice.
There are so many great and wonderful books there for the reading, and it’s not likely that you or me, or any of us have read them all. There is no time like now to get started. The books I’ve mentioned don’t begin to scratch the surface of the great books that been written.
If Jake Tapper’s disgusting book is to accomplish anything, let it not be to make Tapper money, but instead to remind us all that there is nothing better than a good book.
So read one of them instead of Tapper’s. Mine would be a good choice, but there are thousands to choose from.
And by the way, I’d be interested to know what books are in your top ten that you’ve read over the years.
Send me your list to lwoolley9189@gmail.com. Include a physical mailing address, and I might send out some free copies of my books – assuming I like your list. As they say, this offer is limited.
Now choose a good book and read!
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