Now with a new, up-to-the-minute afterword through the 2016 election, the deeply-reported journey into the secretive world of Fox News and the rise and fall of its embattled founder, Roger Ailes.
Gabriel Sherman is a contributing editor at New York magazine and a special correspondent for the New Republic. His reporting has gone inside major media organizations and Wall Street firms. He has served as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC, ABC World News and National Public Radio, and his journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Slate, GQ, Atlantic, Wired, Outside Magazine and National Geographic Adventure, among other publications.
“[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 Reviews
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