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A deeply reported journey inside the secretive world of Fox News and the life of its combative, visionary founder.
When Rupert Murdoch enlisted Roger Ailes to launch a cable news network in 1996, American politics and media changed forever. Now, with a remarkable level of detail and insight, New York magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman brings Ailess unique genius to life, along with the outsize personalitiesBill OReilly, Sean Hannity, Megyn Kelly, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Glenn Beck, Mike Huckabee, and otherswho have helped Fox News play a defining role in the great social and political controversies of the past two decades. From the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal to the Bush-Gore recount, from the war in Iraq to the Tea Party attack on the Obama presidency, Roger Ailes has developed an unrivaled power to sway the national agenda. Even more, he has become the indispensable figure in conservative America and the man any Republican politician with presidential aspirations must court.
How did this man, whose life story has until now been shrouded in myth, become the master strategist of our political landscape? In revelatory detail, Sherman chronicles the rise of Ailes, a sickly kid from an Ohio factory town who, through sheer willpower, the flair of a showman, fierce corporate politicking, and a profound understanding of the priorities of middle America, built the most influential television news empire of our time.
Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Fox News insiders past and present, Sherman documents Ailess tactical acuity as he battles the press, business rivals, and countless real and perceived enemies inside and outside Fox. Sherman takes us inside the morning meetings in which Ailes and other high-level executives strategize Foxs presentation of the news to advance Ailess political agenda; provides behind-the-scenes details of Ailess crucial role as finder and shaper of talent, including his sometimes rocky relationships with Fox News stars such as OReilly and Hannity; and probes Ailess fraught partnership with his equally brash and mercurial boss, Rupert Murdoch.
Roger Ailess life is a story worthy of Citizen Kane. The Loudest Voice in the Room is an extraordinary feat of reportage with a compelling human drama at its heart.

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Copyright 2014 by Gabriel Sherman All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 1

Copyright 2014 by Gabriel Sherman

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.

R ANDOM H OUSE and the H OUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to St. Martins Press for permission to reprint excerpts from The Man Who Would Not Shut Up: The Rise of Bill OReilly by Marvin Kitman, copyright 2007 by Marvin Kitman. Reprinted by permission of St. Martins Press. All rights reserved.

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CONTENTS

An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.

R ALPH W ALDO E MERSON

Television rarely, if ever, tells the whole story.

R OGER A ILES

PROLOGUE
The Most Powerful Man in the World

On the evening of December 7, 2011, Roger Ailes found himself in enemy territory: mingling with journalists in the East Room of the White House at a holiday party hosted by the Obama administration. As the chairman and CEO of Fox News, Ailes was effectively the most powerful opposition figure in the country, with a wide swath of the Republican establishment on his payroll. The reception was studded with East Coast news anchors, Ivy League journalists, and Democratsthe kinds of people Ailes had built his career by attacking, and the kinds of people who Ailes believed had it in for him, too. Though Ailes had spent more than four decades in Washington, D.C., and New York City, he still saw himself as a scrapper from a small town in a flyover state whod had to fight for everything he had. When asked by one reporter what his antagonists thought of him, he replied, I can pretty much pick the words for you: paranoid, right-wing, fat.

But Roger Ailes believed in the importance of American institutions, and in the sacredness of the presidency, which was why hed brought his eleven-year-old son, Zachary, along to meet the president. And the White House was a place where Ailes had long been comfortable. He had been going there since he was a twenty-eight-year-old television adviser whod helped Richard Nixon become president by making the famously stiff, dour man seem warmer and more human on screen.

Ailes and Nixon met in Philadelphia in January 1968. Nixon, about to embark on his second presidential campaign, was in town to appear on The Mike Douglas Show, an afternoon variety program watched by seven million housewives across America. Ailes, who was the shows executive producer, understood the revolutionary power of the medium in ways that the politician did not. Its a shame a man has to use gimmicks like this to get elected, Nixon told Ailes off-camera. Television is not a gimmick, Ailes shot back, and if you think it is, youll lose again. Ailes would help to re-create Nixon, and Nixon, in turn, re-created Ailes. I never had a political thought, Ailes recalled, until they asked me to join the Richard Nixon presidential campaign. He imbibed Nixons worldview, learning how to connect to the many Americans who felt left behind by the upheavals of the 1960s, an insight Ailes would deploy for political advantage, and, later, at Fox News, for record ratings and profits.

Roger was born for television. The growth of television paralleled his whole life, said the journalist Joe McGinniss, whose landmark book about the 1968 election, The Selling of the President, turned Ailes into a star political operative. As a pugnacious television adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush and then as the progenitor of Fox News, Ailes remade both American politics and media. More than anyone of his generation, he helped transform politics into mass entertainmentmonetizing the politics while making entertainment a potent organizing force. Politics is power, and communications is power, he said after the 1968 election. Through Fox, Ailes helped polarize the American electorate, drawing sharp, with-us-or-against-us lines, demonizing foes, preaching against compromise.

At the prescribed time, Ailes hobbled with Zachary to the rope line to see the president. At seventy-one, his body was failing him. The proximate problem was arthritis, but it was his hemophilia that had accelerated it. He had suffered from the debilitating condition since he was a little boy. Over time, the disease caused blood to pool in his knees, hips, and ankles. Though the swelling ravaged his joints, he was stoic about the problemon occasion hed sit through a meeting, his shoe filling up with blood from a cut. His pain became a kind of badge. The difference between pros and amateurs is that pros play hurt, he once said. Ailes displayed a certain fatalism, perhaps a result of his medical history. A couple of weeks before his thirtieth birthday, he told a reporter, Most people think Ill be dead before Im 35.

As a young man, Ailes had the striking features of an actor, with dark eyebrows over wide-set eyes and a sly, confident smile. But these days he looked more like Alfred Hitchcock. He was resigned to his girth, rationalizing it as beyond his control. Its not that I eat too much, Ailes would say. Its that I cant move. Which wasnt strictly true. During the 1988 presidential campaign, when his weight was ballooning, colleagues observed Ailes inhaling Hagen-Dazs ice cream. At rare moments, Ailes expressed vulnerability about his body image. Photo editors are sadistic bastards, he told a journalist around this time. And photographers always make me look heavy.

Mainly, his appetite was in keeping with his no-bullshit attitudeyoure hungry, you eatbut it could also be seen as a metaphor for his gargantuan ambition. Im never going to be one of those $25,000 a year guys, hed vowed at the outset of his career. He also knew what this goal might cost him. I think Ill lead an unhappy life, in terms of what most people consider personal happiness, he said. Personal unhappiness causes you to work harder, and working harder causes more personal unhappiness. He married three times and did not become a father until an age when most people think about retirement. He denied himself the American ideal of happinesshome, family, the 9-to-5 job, a good golf score, three weeks paid vacation, a new carin the service of his career.

Money and power were one thing, important measures of success especially to someone from middle America, and Ailes liked to keep score. But another reason he worked so hard was that he saw himself as a field marshal in an epic battle to defend the American dream against the counterculture. Revolutionaries want to take away from people who have. They dont want to create. They get in gangs for support, he said. All of his tactical genius as a political consultantdismembering Michael Dukakis as soft on crime in the service of George H. W. Bush, for onewas driven by his urge to defeat them. Fox News itself, immensely profitable business though it was, was a continuation of his politics by other means. A lot of the time Roger sees himself as holding back the tide. And a lot of the hysteria around him is people thinking he might be able to, said David Rhodes, who spent twelve years working at Fox and in 2011 became the president of CBS News.

For Ailes, Obamas meteoric ascent onto the national stage was yet another triumph of the counterculture and the liberal news media. People need to be reminded, Ailes told Fox News executives around the time Obama declared his candidacy, this guy never had a job. Hes a community organizer. A few days after Obamas historic election, Ailes remarked during his morning editorial meeting, Theres no reason to have a civil rights movement anymore, since there is a black man in the White House. Obamas victory changed the mission of Fox News. When he started the channel, it was a campaign against CNN. But it is now less about the competition and more about the administration, a former senior Fox producer said. He honestly thinks Obama has set back the country forever. He feels like he is the only one out there who can save the republic. He has said it.

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