The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic

The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country

A revelatory journey inside the world of Fox News and Roger Ailesâ€”the brash, sometimes combative network head who helped fuel the rise of Donald Trump

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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, Vanity Fair magazineÂ reporter Gabriel Sherman puts Ailesâ€™s unique genius on display, along with the outsize personalitiesâ€”Bill Oâ€™Reilly, Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee, Gretchen Carlson, Bill Shine, and othersâ€”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 frailÂ 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 Ailesâ€™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 Foxâ€™s presentation of the news to advance Ailesâ€™s political agenda; provides behind-the-scenes details of Ailesâ€™s crucial role as finder and shaper of talent, including his sometimes rocky relationships with Fox News stars such as Oâ€™Reilly, Hannity, and Carlson; and probes Ailesâ€™s fraught partnership with his equally brash and mercurial boss, Rupert Murdoch.

Roger Ailesâ€™s life is a story worthy of Citizen Kane. Featuring an afterword about Ailesâ€™sÂ epic downfall during the extraordinary 2016 election,Â The Loudest Voice in the Room is an extraordinary feat of reportage with a compelling human drama at its heart.
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-01-14
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-01-14
Format	Kindle eBook

The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country

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