Audience of One: Television, Donald Trump, and the Politics of Illusion

An incisive cultural history that captures a fractious nation through the prism of television and the rattled mind of a celebrity 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 twentieth century, which joined millions of Americans in a shared monocult...