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

from bness2

Excellent book for insight into the man behind FOX News. I get the sense that the author is giving fair treatment to Roger Ailed, in spite of how easy it would be to just trash talk him.

from VGAHarris

A fair and balanced treatment of the main figure in establishing Fox News as an ideological cable powerhouse. Essentially it portrays Ailes as a brilliant but morally flawed genius who never shed his skin as a political operative when he teamed with Rupert Murdoch to form Fox News. Certainly inte...

from wb4ever1

If anyone wants to understand how America got where it is today at the end of the Trump era, then Gabriel Sherman's THE LOUDEST VOICE IN THE ROOM, a biography of Roger Ailes, is required reading. Originally published in 2014, when Ailes was at the height of his power at the head of FOX News, my c...

from MontzaleeW

The Loudest Voice in the Room: Roger Ailes, Fox News and the Remaking of American Politics by Gabriel Sherman is not only a book about Ailes as an adult but about how his father raised him and his childhood to adulthood. His father was a douche bag also and taught Ailes to be the douche bag Ailes...

from froxgirl

Roger Ailes and how he gruesome. His career started benevolently enough with the mild Mike Douglas show but "progressed"/sarcasm to teaching Richard Nixon how to come to terms with TV. It only went downhill from there as he helped co-evil twin Rupert Murdoch to invent Fox News. Great background o...