This good-but-not-great book tells the detailed story of Roger Ailes first rise in the political world, then second, much larger rise in the world of media, but combined with that, to head Fox News.It also shows how Ailes has not only become more and more of an a-hole along the way, but paranoid,...
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, he sent a confidential memo to Karl Rove with advice for George Bush. “The only thing America won’t forgive you for is under-reaching,” Ailes wrote. His missive expressed his view that the country was facing an epochal conflict against a ruthless adversary. “I wrot...