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

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢Â A revelatory journey inside the world of Roger Ailesâ€”the founder of Fox Newsâ€”detailing his rise in TV, political consulting, brash business style, conservative agenda, and relationships with his network stars

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 brings Ailesâ€™s unique genius to life, along with the outsize personalitiesâ€”Bill Oâ€™Reilly, Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee, 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 has developed an unrivaled power to sway the national agenda. Even more, he has become the indispensable figure in conservative America and the man any Republican politician with presidential aspirations must court.
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How did this man, whose life story has until now been shrouded in myth, become the master strategist of our political landscape? In revelatory detail, Sherman chronicles the rise of Ailes, a sickly 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.
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Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Fox News insiders past and present, Sherman documents Ailesâ€™s tactical acuity as he battles 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 strategize 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 and Hannity; and probes Ailesâ€™s fraught partnership with his equally brash and mercurial boss, Rupert Murdoch.
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Roger Ailesâ€™s life is a story worthy of Citizen Kane. The Loudest Voice in the Room is an extraordinary feat of reportage with a compelling human drama at its heart.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
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â€œ[An] actually fair and balanced, carefully documented biography.â€â€”Jacob Weisberg, The New York Times Book Review
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â€œThe book excels at compiling data establishing Ailesâ€™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.â€â€”Erik Wemple, The Washington Post
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â€œ[An] enormously entertaining new biography.â€â€”The New Republic
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â€œA 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.â€â€”David Carr, The New York Times
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â€œSherman is at his best writing with sweep about the history of cable news and placing Ailes in context.â€â€”Los Angeles Times
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780812992854
Color Brown
ReleaseDate 2014-01-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812992854

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780812992854
Color	Brown
ReleaseDate	2014-01-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812992854

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

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