The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country Author: Visit Amazon's Gabriel Sherman Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0812992857 | Format: EPUB
The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country Description
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“[An] actually fair and balanced, carefully documented biography.”
—Jacob Weisberg, The New York Times Book Review “The book excels at compiling data establishing Ailes’s control freakishness and authoritarian nature. . . . A veteran of the New York media-reporting scene, Sherman nails the Fox News palace intrigue and brings to light interactions that Ailes clearly never wanted to go public.”
—Erik Wemple, The Washington Post “[An] enormously entertaining new biography.”
—The New Republic “A thoroughly reported look behind that curtain . . . Part of the reason [Ailes] and his allies have campaigned against the book is not because it is false, but because it tells a true story.”
—David Carr, The New York Times “Sherman is at his best writing with sweep about the history of cable news and placing Ailes in context.”
—Los Angeles Times “[An] eye-opening biography of the would-be political kingmaker and Fox News mastermind . . . A well-reported, engaging book. A bonus: Bill O’Reilly won’t like it, either. Politics and media junkies, on the other hand, will have a field day.”
—Kirkus ReviewsAbout the Author
Gabriel Sherman is a contributing editor at
New York magazine. His journalism has appeared in
The New York Times,The New Republic,
The New York Observer, and
GQ, among other publications. He has served as a commentator on National Public Radio, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC’s
Morning Joe, NBC’s
Today show, and ABC’s
World News. Since 2012, he has been a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jennifer Stahl. This is his first book.
- Hardcover: 560 pages
- Publisher: Random House (January 14, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812992857
- ISBN-13: 978-0812992854
- Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
“The Loudest Voice in the Room” by Gabriel Sherman is a story about a TV station known all around the world, even by those who have never viewed a minute of its program - Fox News.
Gabriel Sherman made an extensive research to present a less known pieces of the puzzle about this TV station that became a synonym for conservative and Republican America; his book is going deep into the details that explain the reader how it came to this phenomenon providing information about the controversial person Roger Ailes of which time has yet to tell its judgment.
“The Loudest Voice in the Room” is not a book for Democrats or Republicans in particular, even not only for Americans, but for all those readers who want to find out how Fox News became what they are today, to learn about all the means used to achieve and maintain their popularity and became a symbol of one type of political thinking.
On its pages the author is discussing particular role of Roger Ailes, related to all the affairs that were produced, fueled or carefully monitored by Fox Network from Clinton era, war in Persian Gulf, Tea Party and attack on current American president.
And although it’s known that the author of this book have political attitudes different from those advocated by this TV station, Gabriel Sherman managed to overcome these differences, making his exhaustive and rich in detail work equally suitable for reading to supporters of all the political parties.
Therefore, this book is an excellent behind-the-scenes material, for reader to find out what happened and it’s still happening behind the camera - and this can be expected to be of interest for all of us who follow the media, hope and wish for objective information about the events that surround us.
I'm only two and a half chapters into the Kindle version; clearly too early to write a comprehensive review. Still, I can see that it is good.
I'm giving 5 stars for courage. Based on everything I've ever heard, the blowback at the author from this powerful and vindictive man is likely to be considerable. I'm not far enough through to give the entire work a five star rating, but it is fascinating, well written, and well researched. I think the 5 will stick.
Gabriel Sherman is saying what needs to be said. The curtain needs to be pulled back to reveal the actual man operating the powerful puppet show of Fox "News." Politics aside, the impact of this TV station on older American's sanity and state of mind is considerable. I've watched my parents go from reasonably laid-back and somewhat equanimous to being highly anxious and caught in the spell of fear and anger. Ailes manipulates his victims by expertly playing on their fears, triggering their anger, channeling that fear and anger to play into his personal politics. This level of manipulation applies even more to the people who are caught directly in the forcefield of his power. It also applies quite directly to the levers of power driving major events in the world: the run up to the Iraq war, and countless contemporary political machinations. So this is an interesting and powerful figure in our time.
The book so far is well written and seems well researched. I don't believe he is just making anything up here.
The main criticism of this book that I've encountered is that the author never interviewed Ailes directly. OK, yes, we should all have a chance to define ourself, clear up the facts of our lives. But Ailes is not one to clear things up with facts, as far as I can tell.
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