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Audience of One
Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
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Ideal for readers interested in politics, media studies, and contemporary cultural critique, particularly those seeking to understand the role of television and media in shaping modern political figures and public discourse.
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 a "funny, acerbic and observant" analysis by the New York Times Book Review, the book has been called "damning and illuminating" by The New Yorker and "the Mueller Report of television criticism." Reviewers highlight Poniewozik’s wit, insight, and clarity in explaining how media evolutions birthed Trumpism and exposed the vulnerabilities of the media to manipulation.
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ISBN: 9781631498152
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 September 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 211.0mm
Weight: 275g
Pages: 352
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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