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Author Poniewozik, James, author
Title Audience of one : Donald Trump, television, and the fracturing of America / James Poniewozik
Publ&date New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
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book jacket
LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 ADULT  324.7 Poniewozik    DUE 04-05-24

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Edition First edition
ISBN 9781631494420 hardcover
1631494422 hardcover
NUMBER 40029388270
Descript xxiii, 325 pages ; 25 cm
Content Part I: Origin story. Unreal estate ; The least objectionable program ; Monopoly ; As himself -- Part II: Antihero. The dark side ; Money money money money! ; The paranoid style in America's newsroom ; The most objectionable program -- Part III: President Television. Red light ; The gorilla channel ; Finale: The idea of a president
Summary "A generational work that, using television, reframes America's identity through the rattled mind of a septuagenarian, insomniac, cable-news-junkie president. In the tradition of great cultural figures like Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman, New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of television and mass media from the early 1980s to today, and demonstrates how a "volcanic, camera- hogging antihero" merged with America's most powerful medium to become our forty-fifth president. Beginning where Postman left off, Audience of One weaves together two compelling stories. The first charts the seismic evolution of television from a monolithic mass medium, with three mainstream networks, into today's fractious confederation of "spite-and-insult" media subcultures. The second examines Donald Trump himself, who took advantage of these historic changes to constantly reinvent himself: from boastful cartoon zillionaire; to 1990s self-parodic sitcom fixture; to The Apprentice-reality-TV star; and, finally, to Twitter-mad, culture-warring demagogue. A trenchant, often slyly hilarious, work, Audience of One provides an eye- opening history of American media and a sobering reflection of the raucous, "gorillas-are always-fighting" culture we've now become"-- Provided by publisher
Poniewozik traces the history of television and mass media from the early 1980s to today, and demonstrates how a "volcanic, camera- hogging antihero" merged with America's most powerful medium to become our forty-fifth president. He weaves together two compelling stories: charting the seismic evolution of television from a monolithic mass medium, with three mainstream networks, into today's fractious confederation of "spite-and-insult" media subcultures; and examining Donald Trump and how he took advantage of these historic changes to constantly reinvent himself. -- adapted from jacket
Note Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-309) and index
Subject Trump, Donald, 1946-
Trump, Donald, 1946- -- In mass media
Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States
Television in politics -- United States
Political culture -- United States