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The loudest voice in the room : how the brilliant, bombastic Roger Ailes built Fox News--and divided a country / Gabriel Sherman.

by Sherman, Gabriel.

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Random House, 2014.

Television broadcasting of news -- United States -- Biography.

Television broadcasting of news -- Objectivity -- United States.

Television and politics -- United States.

Conservatism -- United States.

9780812992854 (hc.)

xx, 538 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-517) and index.

"Jump Roger, jump" -- "You can talk your way out of anything" -- The Philadelphia story -- Selling the trick -- Rea productions -- A new stage -- Thought pattern revolution -- Risky strategy -- America's talking -- "A very, very dangerous man" -- The Aussie and the Midwesterner -- October surprise -- The right kind of friends -- Anti-Clinton news network -- The call -- Holy war -- Quagmire doesn't rate -- "What are you going to do with all this power?" -- Searching for a new cast -- Comeback -- Trouble on Main street -- The last campaign.

"When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to launch a cable news network in 1996, American politics and media changed forever. Reporter Gabriel Sherman brings Ailes's unique genius to life, along with the outsize personalities -- Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee, and others -- 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. 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"--Provided by publisher.

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