| Audience of One: Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America Contributor(s): Poniewozik, James (Author) |
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ISBN: 1631498150 ISBN-13: 9781631498152 Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Media & Internet - Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads Of State - Performing Arts | Television - History & Criticism |
| Dewey: 324.730 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.60 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik offers a "darkly entertaining" (Carlos Lozada, Washington Post) history of mass media from the early 1980s to today, demonstrating how a volcanic, camera-hogging antihero merged with America's most powerful medium to become our forty-fifth president. In charting the seismic evolution of television from a monolithic mass medium into today's fractious confederation of spite-and-insult media subcultures, Poniewozik reveals how Donald Trump took advantage of these historic changes by constantly reinventing himself: from a boastful cartoon zillionaire; to 1990s self-parodic sitcom fixture; to The Apprentice reality-TV star; and finally to Twitter-mad, culture-warring demagogue. Already lauded as a "brilliant and daring" (Annalisa Quinn, NPR) work that defines a generation, Audience of One emerges as a classic in cultural criticism. |