'The Loudest Voice' turns the spotlight on Roger Ailes — the man who made President Trump possible
It was 2014 and Gabriel Sherman was in a funk.
The journalist, then at New York magazine, had just published "The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News - and Divided a Nation," a critical biography of one of the most powerful and polarizing figures in American media.
Drawn from more than 600 interviews, the book detailed how Ailes, whose work as an executive producer on "The Mike Douglas Show" led to a job advising Richard Nixon on his television appearances, turned Fox News Channel into the most-watched cable news network in the country after less than six years on the air.
Ailes did not exactly welcome Sherman's investigation, declining to sit for an interview, reportedly compiling a 400-page dossier of opposition research and enlisting allies such as Roger Stone in an effort to discredit Sherman. When it was released, Sherman's portrait of Ailes as an evil genius, which
