Audience of one : Donald Trump, television, and the fracturing of America / James Poniewozik.

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    • Publication Information:
      First edition.
    • Abstract:
      Summary: "Using television Audience of One reframes America through the rattled mind of a septuagenarian, insomniac, cable-news-junkie president. The 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 the forty-fifth president. He charts the seismic evolution of television from a monolithic mass medium of mainstream networks into today's fractious media subculture. He then examines Donald Trump, who took advantage of these changes to reinvent himself: from boastful cartoon zillionaire; to 1990s self-parodic sitcom fixture; to The Apprentice-reality-TV star to Twitter-mad, culture-warring demagogue. A trenchant, often hilarious work, Audience of One provides an eye-opening history of American media and a reflection of a raucous, "gorillas-are always-fighting" culture." -- Provided by publisher
    • Notes:
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-309) and index.
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    • ISBN:
      9781631494420
      1631494422
    • Accession Number:
      bl2019021242
    • Accession Number:
      1112670534
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.1078372