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Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter EPUB

Fox News paid almost a billion dollars in legal settlements to bury the contents of this explosive account of the network's blatant attempts to manipulate the truth, mislead the public, and influence our elections--from the New York Times bestselling author of Hoax.The ongoing criminal trials of Donald Trump are also a trial for the nation he once led. We are undergoing a stress test of American democracy, the rule of law, and the very notion of a shared political reality. Can we achieve accountability for premeditated assaults on democracy and what forms should accountability take?

In Network of Lies, New York Times bestselling author Brian Stelter answers these questions by weaving together private texts, unpublished emails, depositions, and other primary sources to tell the chilling story of Trump's alleged conspiracy to steal the 2020 election, and the right-wing media's mission to put him back in office in 2024.

Trump couldn't have convinced millions of Americans of the Big Lie without Fox News. From the moment Joe Biden became president-elect in 2020, Fox hosts fueled a fire of misinformation and violence by spreading Trump's tales of election fraud and suppressing the truth. Come January, Sean Hannity insisted Trump needed to stop listening to "crazy people" who swore he could stay in power, but it was too late--thousands of Trump's deluded followers had stormed the Capitol and Trump operatives had breached Dominion Voting Systems' voting machines in Georgia.

Now the 2020 lies are at the center of numerous indictments and his reelection campaign, but Trump is not the only one under fire. The once-untouchable Rupert Murdoch has been held accountable. Dominion's legal war, chronicled in-depth for the first time here, revealed that the ninety-two-year-old Fox chairman knew Trump's lies were dangerous but he allowed the lies to fill Fox's airwaves because, as his "pain sponge" Suzanne Scott admitted, telling the truth was "bad for business."

Network of Lies goes inside the chat rooms, board rooms, and court rooms where the pro-Trump media's greed and selfishness were exposed. Featuring Stelter's "thorough and damning" (The New York Times) investigative prowess and direct quotations so shocking they read like fiction, Network of Lies is the definitive origin story of Trump's attempt to tear down the guardrails of American democracy, and an urgent plea to learn from past mistakes as we head into 2024's pivotal presidential election.

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“This is the book Trump fears most.” - Axios

The instant #1 New York Times **bestseller. “This is the book Trump fears most.” - Axios

Review

“ Confidence Man [is] Maggie Haberman’s much anticipated biography of the president she followed more assiduously than any other journalist. No doubt, there are revelations aplenty here. But this is a book more notable for the quality of its observations about Trump’s character than for its newsbreaks. It will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come.” —Joe Klein, The New York Times

"A uniquely illuminating portrait…Haberman’s contribution in Confidence Man [is] much larger than its arresting anecdotes. Later generations of historians will puzzle over Trump’s rise to national power. The best of them will have learned from Haberman’s book that none of it would have been possible but for a social, cultural, political, media and moral breakdown that overtook New York beginning in the 1970s, a fiasco of trusted institutions that, having allowed the Trumpian virus to grow, failed at every step to contain its spread, then profited from, aided and even cheered its devastation." — Sean Wilentz, The Washington Post

“[A] monumental look at Donald Trump and his presidency . . . it may be first among equals.” — David Shribman , Los Angeles Times

“Haberman, the New York Times ’ Trump whisperer, delivers. [ Confidence Man ] is much more than 600 pages of context, scoop and drama. It is a political epic, tracing Donald Trump’s journey from the streets of Queens to Manhattan’s Upper East Side, from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, his Elba.” —The Guardian

“Delivers eye-popping details about the Trump presidency.” —Terry Moran, Good Morning America

“Maggie Haberman has become the chronicler-in-chief of the Donald Trump era.” —John Dickerson, CBS Sunday Morning

“Haberman deploys a deep sense of Trump's origins and career, including his relationships with New York’s mayors and powerful Democratic ward bosses such as Meade Esposito. Haberman helps us understand how his lifelong desire for stardom pushed him to bid for the presidency and how his unorthodox credentials and tactics enabled him to win. She has a witness’ eye for much that she relates.” —NPR.org

“An origin story plus an inside-the-room blow-by-blow—a book arguably only Haberman could have written. . . . It’s been called the book Trump fears the most—he’s ‘terrified,’ said one former aide—and that’s because Haberman is the reporter who knows him the best.” —Michael Kruse, POLITICO

“Chockablock with fresh anecdotes and insights.” —Frank Bruni, The New York Times

“Haberman stands out among journalists who have followed Mr. Trump . . . Haberman makes a particular contribution with [ Confidence Man ] by describing how the annealing interplay of politics and commerce in the New York of the 1970s and 1980s equipped Mr. Trump with the low expectations and cynical convictions that would carry him so far . . . Her devastating portrait of Mr. Trump’s failure should give his imitators pause.” — The Economist

“Maggie Haberman breaks more news than the rest of us.” —Jonathan Swan

“Maggie Haberman gets all the information” — Jimmy Kimmel

“No reporter has lived rent-free in Trump’s head longer than Haberman.” — POLITICO Playbook

“Haberman’s book is chockablock with scoops . . . but what singles it out from the competition is its perceptiveness about Trump’s character and the way his private vices became public menaces.” —Peter Conrad, The Guardian

“With a masterly command of her subject, Haberman carefully weighs her sources and composes a highly readable, believable account of Trump from childhood through his petulant Mar-a-Lago exile.” —Shepherd Express

"The most comprehensive portrait of the 45th president to date, one that correctly diagnoses him as a malignant, world-historical narcissist and that will be read long after he alights from the proverbial couch.” —Air Mail

"Deeply reported and immersively told, this is an essential contribution." — Publishers Weekly , starred review

"A damning portrait of narcissism, megalomania, and abject failure—and the price the country is paying in the bargain." — Kirkus Reviews

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