Gabriel Sherman, The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News—and Divided a Country 

The Author: A contributing editor at New York Magazine. He writes about media, politics, and business.

The Skinny: This biography of the Fox News chief includes episodes in which Ailes sexually harasses a female employee, calls a colleague an anti-Semitic epithet, and candidly announces to a room full of his fellow Fox News ecutives, “I want to elect the next president.”

The Buzz: The book’s content is incredible enough to make waves, for sure, but it’s likely you’ve already heard about this book, since Fox is vigorously refuting its facticity.

Why We Love It: Ailes is an outlandish, larger-than-life character who does things like say he’s quoting George Washington at small-town public meetings, even when it’s something George Washington likely never said. 

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