Audience of one Donald Trump, television, and the fracturing of America

"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 Pon...

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Main Author: Poniewozik, James (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • The idea of a president.