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Audience of One

Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
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Audience of One by James Poniewozik offers a sharp, engaging history of mass media from the 1980s to the present, spotlighting how television evolved from a dominant mass medium into a fractured landscape of niche subcultures. Poniewozik traces the rise of Donald Trump through this media transformation, showing how Trump reinvented himselfβ€”from a boastful billionaire to a reality-TV star and finally a culture-warring demagogueβ€”capitalising on these shifts to become the forty-fifth president. This work stands as a vivid, cultural critique of media's role in shaping political narratives.
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Audience of One is ideal for readers interested in media studies, political history, and contemporary cultural criticism, especially those seeking to understand the interplay between media evolution and modern American politics.

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Using television Audience of One reframes America through the rattled mind of a septuagenarian, insomniac, cable-news-junkie president.

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No single book about the media more thoroughly captured the imagination of readers and critics in 2019 than Audience of One.

Funny, acerbic and observant (Gary Shteyngart, New York Times Book Review), 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.

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Praised as "the Mueller Report of television criticism" by Emily Nussbaum of The New Yorker, the book offers a witty and penetrating exposΓ© of Trump's intimate bond with television. Maureen Ryan from Variety lauds Poniewozik's wit, insight, and clarity, emphasising how the book reveals the symbiotic relationship between Trump's rise and shifts in American culture and media vulnerabilities. The author's acerbic humour serves to illuminate the unfolding tragedy, making Audience of One a compelling and essential read.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781631494420

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 October 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 661g

Pages: 304

About the Author

James Poniewozik has been the chief television critic of the New York Times since 2015. He was previously the television and media critic for Time magazine and media columnist for Salon. He lives in Brooklyn.

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