Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America - James Poniewozik
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An incisive cultural history that captures a fractious nation through the prism of television and the rattled mind of a celebrity president.
Television has entertained America, television has ensorcelled America, and with the election of Donald J. Trump, television has conquered America. In Audience of One, New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of TV and mass media from the Reagan era to today, explaining how a volcanic, camera-hogging antihero merged with America’s most powerful medium to become our forty-fifth president.
In the tradition of Neil Postman’s masterpiece Amusing Ourselves to Death, Audience of One shows how American media have shaped American society and politics, by interweaving two crucial stories. The first story follows the evolution of television from the three-network era of the 20th century, which joined millions of Americans in a shared monoculture, into today’s zillion-channel, Internet-atomized universe, which sliced and diced them into fractious, alienated subcultures. The second story is a cultural critique of Donald Trump, the chameleonic celebrity who courted fame, achieved a mind-meld with the media beast, and rode it to ultimate power.
Braiding together these disparate threads, Poniewozik combines a cultural history of modern America with a revelatory portrait of the most public American who has ever lived. Reaching back to the 1940s, when Trump and commercial television were born, Poniewozik illustrates how Donald became “a character that wrote itself, a brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box and entered the world, a simulacrum that replaced the thing it represented.” Viscerally attuned to the media, Trump shape-shifted into a boastful tabloid playboy in the 1980s; a self-parodic sitcom fixture in the 1990s; a reality-TV “You’re Fired” machine in the 2000s; and finally, the biggest role of his career, a Fox News–obsessed, Twitter-mad, culture-warring demagogue in the White House.
Poniewozik deconstructs the chaotic Age of Trump as the 24-hour TV production that it is, decoding an era when politics has become pop culture, and vice versa. Trenchant and often slyly hilarious, Audience of One is a penetrating and sobering review of the raucous, raging, farcical reality show―performed for the benefit of an insomniac, cable-news-junkie “audience of one”―that we all came to live in, whether we liked it or not.
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This post has 11 comments with rating of 4/5
June 14th, 2020
ANOTHER one?! The Trumpman Show. Although, the use of “ensorcelled” indicates that it can’t be all bad.
However, making such vaunted claims for television at this point makes the book sound like it’s actually from the 1980’s. Much like Donald himself, I suppose.
Now I just have to get the image of Trump riding a television out of my addled mind. Thanks for that, Jean-Paul.
(Rupturing a metaphorical blood vessel, the blurb variously describes Trump as - a chameleon, a mind-melder, a brand mascot, a simulacrum, a shape-shifter, a fixture, a junkie, a machine, a vacuum cleaner, a utility bill, a flatulent rabbit…then it finally malfunctions)
June 14th, 2020
haven’t you heard?
orange man bad
June 14th, 2020
No, he definitely wasn’t described as an orange. That will doubtless be in the 2nd edition.
June 14th, 2020
Orangeman is living rent free in the heads of the Resist crowd.
Good to know that no matter what happens to Nancy Pelosi I.e. when she leaves office, the DNC will continue getting unchecked funding from BLM and antifa.
June 14th, 2020
bunkerboy
June 14th, 2020
Another ignorant wanna-be author who was indoctrinated by the communist university crowd who hate this country. When you suck at the teat of lies all you are able to see are lies. Open your eyes before you ruin this nation by tearing it apart like a angry two year olds.
June 14th, 2020
Not bad, but Amanda Carpenter’s 2018 book, Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us, is still the best (and most amusing) analysis of the Trumpster’s slippery M.O..
June 15th, 2020
LMFAO at the over emotional Trump supporters. Instead of wasting time bashing authors go do your own research on the man. If you still remain a supporter after getting the truth from his own mouth more power to you but I GUARANTEE you that not a single one of you has bothered to research the candidate you “Oh love so much.” If you had you might be crying for Pence to take over, that much I know.
June 16th, 2020
Best Pres EVER!
July 6th, 2020
MAGA for the next 20 years.
The book: Save your $$$
September 2nd, 2022
what will the clynically delusional do when Trump returns and is immortalized on Mt Rushmore? Probably go even more insane. this audiobook is one of many that will end up in a cultural landfill of grabage that people in the future will look at and ask ‘how did we delve so deeply into hysteria?”
spoiler: it’s trash
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