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A deeply reported journey inside the secretive world of Fox Information and the life of its combative, visionary creator. When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to establish a cable reports network in 1996, American politics and advertising changed permanently. Now, with a amazing level of details and insight, New York publication reporter Gabriel Sherman brings Ailes's unique genius to life, combined with the outsize personalities - Charge O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee, among others - who've helped Fox Information play a defining role in the great social and politics controversies of days gone by two decades. From the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal to the Bush-Gore recount, from the war in Iraq to the Tea Party strike on the Obama presidency, Roger Ailes is rolling out an unrivaled power to sway the national agenda. Even more, he is just about the indispensable number in traditional America and the person any Republican politician with presidential dreams must court. How performed this man, whose life history has until now been shrouded in misconception, become the get better at strategist of our political landscape? In revelatory details, Sherman chronicles the climb of Ailes, a sickly kid from an Ohio manufacturing plant town who, through utter willpower, the flair of a showman, fierce corporate politicking, and a serious knowledge of the priorities of middle America, built the most important television reports empire of our time. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Fox Information insiders past and present, Sherman documents Ailes's tactical acuity as he fights the press, business competitors, and many real and identified enemies inside and outside Fox. Roger Ailes's life is a story worth Resident Kane. The Loudest Voice in the Room can be an extraordinary feat of reportage with a engaging human crisis at its heart and soul.
