Audience of One Pdf

ISBN: 1631494422
Title: Audience of One Pdf Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America
Author: James Poniewozik
Published Date: 2019-09-10
Page: 304

“Illuminating... Poniewozik is a funny, acerbic and observant writer… [He] uses his ample comedic gifts in the service of describing a slow-boil tragedy. If humor is the rocket of his ICBM, the last three years of our lives are the destructive payload…Poniewozik brings a new microscope with which to analyze the drug-resistant bacterium that is our president. Perhaps the greatest accomplishment of Audience of One is that it makes Trump's presidency seem almost inevitable.” - Gary Shteyngart, New York Times Book Review“The smartest, most original, most unexpectedly definitive account of the rise of Trump and Trumpism we’ve had so far. It’s also the best book yet written about the bride-of-Frankenstein mating of American politics and American pop culture, a wedding practically nobody saw coming until Trump provided the shotgun… [An] uncommonly rich and stimulating book.” - Tom Carson, Bookforum“In his stellar debut, Poniewozik demonstrates how Trump, over a period of four decades, “achieved symbiosis” with the TV medium.... His telling analyses of Trump’s appearances on The Apprentice, Fox & Friends, and The Howard Stern Show will come as revelations to readers unfamiliar with those programs.... The author chronicles Trump’s actions against a deeply insightful history of vast changes in the media and popular culture during the period.... This intelligent eye-opener belongs on the small shelf of valuable books that help explain how Trump created his base.” - Kirkus Reviews [starred review]“Caustic, scintillating cultural history…. New York Times television critic Poniewozik sets Donald Trump’s political rise against American television’s evolution…. Trump’s own media persona―'the blunt, impolite apex predator’ on The Apprentice, the trash-talking bully in pro-wrestling cameos, the birther conspiracy theorist on Fox News guest spots―shaped his political style and then subsumed him entirely: Trump became ‘a cable news channel in human form: loud, short of attention span, and addicted to conflict,’ Poniewozik writes. ‘TV became president.’ Poniewozik’s trenchant, brilliantly witty critique of the cultural archetypes percolating into American politics is one of the best analyses yet of the Trump era.” - Publishers Weekly [starred review]“We’re saturated in Trump coverage and analysis these days, but Poniewozik has been offering consistently unique, informative, and whip-smart commentary in his post as New York Times TV critic. Here he expands on his newspaper work by dissecting the president through the lens of his favorite medium.” - Entertainment Weekly“This is both a fascinating look at the ways television has changed and shaped the U.S., and a compelling lens through which to look at how we got to November 8, 2016.” - Booklist“The Mueller Report of television criticism! James Poniewozik’s Audience of One is both damning and illuminating, a witty, penetrating exposé of Trump’s most intimate relationship, the one with the medium that made him.” - Emily Nussbaum, television critic for The New Yorker“Now that the Donald Trump freak show has replaced all regularly scheduled programming, staggering us daily, as one of its longtime chroniclers I’m grateful for this brilliant, lucid, and essential book to help make sense of this American nightmare.” - Kurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire“In the vast literature of Trump-theory, Audience of One immediately takes a place in the first rank; it has to be read by anyone interested in understanding how such a buffoon became our nation’s chief magistrate. We have always known of course that Donald Trump’s success is attributable in some way to television; what we have not grasped―what we have refused to grasp―is how his career reflects the tastes and predilections of our beloved entertainment industry right down to the smallest details of its technological development. For anyone who still counts on enlightened celebrities to deliver us: Read this book and repent.” - Thomas Frank, author of Rendezvous with Oblivion“In this brilliant new book, James Poniewozik shows how the media landscape increasingly fragmented over the past few decades, with the rise of cable, the Internet, and social media, and how our political world fractured as a result. Smartly argued and beautifully written, Audience of One deserves an audience of millions.” - Kevin M. Kruse, coauthor of Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 James Poniewozik has been the chief television critic of the New York Times since 2015. He was previously the television and media critic for Time magazine and media columnist for Salon. He lives in Brooklyn.

One of the Top 10 Politics and Current Events Books of Fall 2019 (Publishers Weekly)

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.

Make Donald Trump Small Again James Poniewozik, the TV critic for The NY Times, describes throughout Audience of One his penchant for television shows with powerful narratives. He emphasizes the difference between twenty-four hour news channels, which are just one burst of information after another, with a well-done drama series like the Sopranos.Unsurprisingly, his first book is itself a powerful narrative. First, how TV changed from the anodyne sitcoms of the 1980s to the diverse panoply of reality TV and HBO dramas and comedies. He highlights how dramas are often about empathizing and cooperating while reality TV is about competition and ruthlessness in the drive to win.More controversially, he describes how Donald Trump has coopted the values of reality TV into winning the presidency. He paints an image of Trump as an amoral, narcissistic, pathological liar who is chosen as the champion fighter for one diminishing sector of America (the white lower and upper classes). He has brought to life the much admired strong men of Breaking Bad, the Sopranos and like entertainment.Trump, according to Poniewozik, sees the presidency as essentially like an episode of Survivor. Get the goods for America against all other nations and America’s goods for his electorate.I found only two problems with this narrative. One is it is only a narrative. If it resonates with your experience of American culture then you’ll agree with it. But there’s really no way to prove or disprove any of its points.Second, it paints such an overwhelmingly negative portrait of Trump and his supporters that it will probably be read only by like minded liberals.Personally, I came away with the sense that Poniewozik has an important story to tell. But I’m sure that critics will try to find holes in his narrative structure.Moreover, while I thought that this is a book that every politically-conscious person should read I have to hope I’m wrong that the condescending tone toward MAGAs will restrict its ambit to coastal liberal elites. If you are broadminded enough to consider a rather partisan narrative this book is highly recommended.

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