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Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy Hardcover – November 14, 2023

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Fox News paid almost a billion dollars in legal settlements to bury the contents of this “essential…grinding, momentum-building” (The New York Times) 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of Lies, New York Times bestselling author Brian Stelter answers these questions by weaving together private texts, unpublished emails, depositions, and other primary sources to tell the chilling story of Trump’s alleged conspiracy to steal the 2020 election, and the right-wing media’s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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November 14, 2023
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"Essential….[a] grinding, momentum-building account, from an inside-Fox-News perspective, of the conspiracy to steal the 2020 presidential election, the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit and Tucker Carlson’s defenestration…Network of Lies reads like one of Bob Woodward’s mightier books.”
—Dwight Garner, New York Times Book Review

"A readable and engrossing deep dive into the rightwing juggernaut paid for by the Murdochs and built by the late, disgraced Roger Ailes."
—Guardian

"An essential read."
—Alex Wagner, Alex Wagner Tonight

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"A thorough and damning exploration of the incestuous relationship between Trump and his favorite channel."
—New York Times

"A Rosetta Stone for stuff about this presidency that doesn’t otherwise make sense to normal humans"
—Rachel Maddow, author of #1 New York Times bestseller BLOWOUT and host of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show

"Stelter’s critique goes beyond salacious tidbits about extramarital affairs (though there are plenty of those) to expose a collusion that threatens the pillars of our democracy."
—Washington Post

"A rare look inside the profoundly influential cable news network and...a disturbing inside portrait of how it came to enable Trump’s disastrous presidency."
—New Republic

"Stelter's account gives a sense that […] there's no one really in control — that Hannity, Carlson, Ingraham and the “Fox & Friends” morning team can essentially do what they want."
—Associated Press

"[Stelter] chronicles the symbiotic relationship between [Trump] and Rupert Murdoch’s most famous product …Hoax is amply documented."
—The Guardian

"A deep, dispiriting dive into the nefarious intersection of politics, conspiracy, lies, and money as served up by Donald Trump and Fox News."
—Kirkus (starred review)

About the Author

Brian Stelter is the New York Times bestselling author of three books: Top of the Morning, Hoax, and Network of Lies. Previously, Stelter was a media reporter at The New York Times, the chief media correspondent for CNN Worldwide, and the anchor of Reliable Sources. He is currently a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and a Walter Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. Stelter is a producer on the Apple TV+ series The Morning Show, which is inspired by his first book Top of the Morning. He also executive produced the HBO documentary After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children. Follow him on Twitter @BrianStelter.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Atria/One Signal Publishers (November 14, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1668046903
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1668046906
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.16 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #132,140 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Keith D.

Amusing and Horrifying

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2024

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This is an important book that sets out to explain some of the confusion and nonsense of our recent political life. For many, the role of Fox in lowering our collective intelligence is already well known. The author adds additional facts to this story, while emphasizing that the network is, first and last, a profitable business--and that everything it does is driven by financial decisions, rather than old-fashioned notions about truth or the public good. The author has had years of experience with Fox and its leading personalities, and he exhibits more than a few hints of snarky glee at his subject's numerous scandals and face-plants. This attitude takes nothing away from the objectivity of his narrative. In fact, it helps create a page-turning account of what is, in truth, a story of colossal dishonesty and cynicism.

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Stephen J. Dent

A lot more of Tucker C. than I was looking for!

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2023

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A deep dive into the weeds that were and are Fox News. Fascinating to actually read the Fox emails that many people never read and ones that certainly no Fox viewer ever was exposed to. The idea that virtually every host knew very well that the election was fair and that Dominion had done nothing wrong is really amazing. How could anyone trust a company who admitted to stroking the heads of their viewers and giving them what they want, regardless of they are peddling lies or not.

The book does go a bit far with some snide remarks about Tucker Carlson. Most of the remarks were certainly earned by the bow tie, but it seemed to bog down the read and go slightly overboard with the enthusiasm and vigor in detailing the demise of Carlson and somewhat detracts from the main thrust of the piece that it was Fox as a whole that systematically lied for ratings, not just Tuck.

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charles

An excellent, well written book.

Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2024

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This a well written and well researched book about Fox News and what makes it tick. It had an insiders point of view about the internal workings of a network responsible for dividing our nation. A real page turner!

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J. winston

highlights the clear and present danger of Fox News

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2023

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I think anyone with critical thinking sees clearly when they watch Fox News the blatant lies and constant effort to keep their viewers in a constant state of either anger or fear. And while right wing routinely accuses MSM such as CNN as ‘Clinton News Network.. Fox News was in real time unabashedly the state media for trump and maga .. this book pulls back the curtain on the inner workings of Fox and confirms that the final product we see everyday is born out of an agenda to keep their veiwers in an alternate reality much to to the detriment of our ability to come together and agree on reality .. well worth reading

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C. Stevens

Comprehensive + exhaustively researched

Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2023

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I learned a lot from Stelter's analysis and insights and appreciated his distillation of the enormous legal documentation stemming from Fox's first 2020 election-related defamation lawsuit. He offers significant historical context and owns up to his role as a "player" in this drama. If you're not someone who digs into and parses the details or seeks to elicit all the connections, you may not enjoy this book as much as I did.

As a coda: many "reviews" offered here leave the strong impression that their writers care more about tanking the book's overall ratings than they do offering reasoned critique for people considering purchasing and reading the book. If "red-blue/who's winning" is your goal, why not skip the written review part and just vote your partisan leanings with star ratings? It would save both of us time. ;-)

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Frank Girardot

Solid reporting on journalism as entertainment

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2023

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I wasn’t a fan of Stelter until I read this book. He does a great job of weaving a biography of Tucker Carlson into the drama behind the Dominion lawsuit. His conclusion about Tucker’s firing by the Fox Network seems spot on.

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JT

I didn't get my book!

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2024

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024

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And the notes about counteracting Fox in the epilogue are truly upsetting in their smallness. Nonetheless, I suppose someone should keep an eye on the drunk drivers over there at Fox. Thanks to Brian Stelter for doing so.

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Robin Ottawa

All the facts you need. Too many.

Reviewed in Canada on March 6, 2024

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We already know the truth, that Fox is anti democratic and peddles lies to trigger fears. They are a political channel in favor of right wing supremecist policy instead of equality. Every page proves this.

M Clark

A blow-by-blow account of Fox News during the period 2020-2023

Reviewed in Germany on December 1, 2023

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Brian Stelter provides a blow-by-blow account of what on inside Fox News during the critical period from 2020 - late 2023. He was able to take advantage of the internal Fox material that was released as a result of the Dominion lawsuit and the investigation of the January 6th committee. Although much had already appeared in news accounts, the account in this book provides significant additional details. In addition, it puts everything conveniently together in an easily understood timeline. The focus is on the leadup to the 2020 election, the events leading to January 6th, and the defenestration of Tucker Carlson. Remarkably, the book is able to include and explain events that occurred just a few weeks before publication.

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