The how the brilliant, bombastic Roger Ailes built Fox News-- and divided a country Sherman, Gabriel creator author. text bibliography biography nyu New York Random House 2017 2014 Random House trade paperback edition. monographic eng

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xxii, 550 pages ; 21 cm An inside account of Fox News offers insight into its operations and influence, covering the original launch of the cable news network by Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch and the ways in which Fox has become a dominant force in American politics. "The most powerful man in the world" -- "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. Gabriel Sherman. "With an explosive new afterword" -- cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 517-529) and index. n-us--- Ailes, Roger Eugene 1940-2017 Ailes, Roger Fox News. Fox News. Television broadcasting of news United States Television and politics United States Right-wing extremists United States Right-wing extremists Television and politics Television broadcasting of news United States PN4888.T4 S553 2017 070.1/95 9780812982732 0812982738 2017299816 EYB 180119 20230411090820.0 20290624 eng