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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gabriel ShermanPublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Ballantine Books Inc. Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 21.10cm Weight: 0.450kg ISBN: 9780812982732ISBN 10: 0812982738 Pages: 576 Publication Date: 14 February 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews[An] actually fair and balanced, carefully documented biography. <b> Jacob Weisberg, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <b></b> 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. <b> Erik Wemple, <i>The Washington Post</i></b> <b></b> [An] enormously entertaining new biography. <b> <i>The New Republic</i></b> <b></b> 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. <b> David Carr, <i>The New York Times</i></b> <b></b> Sherman is at his best writing with sweep about the history of cable news and placing Ailes in context. <b> <i>Los Angeles Times</i></b> <b></b> [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. <b> <i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b> [An] actually fair and balanced, carefully documented biography. <b>--Jacob Weisberg, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <b><i> </i></b> 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. <b>--Erik Wemple, <i>The Washington Post</i></b> <b><i> </i></b> [An] enormously entertaining new biography. <b>--<i>The New Republic</i></b> <b><i> </i></b> 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. <b>--David Carr, <i>The New York Times</i></b> <b><i> </i></b> Sherman is at his best writing with sweep about the history of cable news and placing Ailes in context. <b>--<i>Los Angeles Times</i></b> <b><i> </i></b> [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. <b>--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b> [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 Author InformationGabriel 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |