NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A revelatory journey inside the world of
Fox News and Roger Ailes--the brash, sometimes combative network head
who helped fuel the rise of Donald Trump
When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to launch a cable news network
in 1996, American politics and media changed forever. With a remarkable
level of detail and insight, New York magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman
puts Ailes's unique genius on display, along with the outsize
personalities--Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly, Sarah Palin,
Karl Rove, Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee, Gretchen Carlson, and others--who
have helped Fox News play a defining role in the great social and
political controversies of the past two decades. From the
Clinton-Lewinsky scandal to the Bush-Gore recount, from the war in Iraq
to the Tea Party attack on the Obama presidency, Roger Ailes developed
an unrivaled power to sway the national agenda. Even more, he became
the indispensable figure in conservative America and the man any
Republican politician with presidential aspirations had to court.
How did this man become the master strategist of our political
landscape? In revelatory detail, Sherman chronicles the rise of Ailes,
a frail kid from an Ohio factory town who, through sheer willpower, the
flair of a showman, fierce corporate politicking, and a profound
understanding of the priorities of middle America, built the most
influential television news empire of our time.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Fox News insiders past and
present, Sherman documents Ailes's tactical acuity as he battled the
press, business rivals, and countless real and perceived enemies inside
and outside Fox. Sherman takes us inside the morning meetings in which
Ailes and other high-level executives strategized Fox's presentation of
the news to advance Ailes's political agenda; provides
behind-the-scenes details of Ailes's crucial role as finder and shaper
of talent, including his sometimes rocky relationships with Fox News
stars such as O'Reilly, Hannity, and Carlson; and probes Ailes's
fraught partnership with his equally brash and mercurial boss, Rupert
Murdoch.
Roger Ailes's life is a story worthy of Citizen Kane. Featuring a new
afterword about Ailes's epic downfall during the extraordinary 2016
election, The Loudest Voice in the Room is an extraordinary feat of
reportage with a compelling human drama at its heart.
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