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

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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. When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to launch a cable news network in 1996, American politics and media changed forever. Now, with a remarkable level of detail and insight, New York Magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman brings Roger Ailes to life, along with the outsized personalities-Megyn Kelly, Gretchen Carlson, the Murdochs, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and others-who have helped Fox News play a defining role in the great social and political controversies of the past two decades. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Fox News insiders past and present, The Loudest Voice in the Room is an extraordinary feat of reportage. Story Locale- New York, NY

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