Audience of One

Reviews / Votes

"According to The New York Times TV critic, Trump's addiction to TV and Twitter meant that even before he won the presidency, he "had essentially become a cable news channel in human form, loud, short of attention span, addicted to conflict ... a meshing of man and machine"." -- Martin Pengelly and David Smith - The Guardian "The Mueller Report of television criticism! James Poniewozik's Audience of One is both damning and illuminating, a witty, penetrating expose of Trump's most intimate relationship, the one with the medium that made him." -- Emily Nussbaum - The New Yorker "With wit, insight, and clarity, James Poniewozik puts Trump at the center of a series of changes that swept through American popular culture and political systems. Poniewozik's essential book shows how these evolutions incubated Trumpism, even as Trump's rise exposed the limits and vulnerabilities of the media, which too often found itself floundering in the face of his shameless manipulations." -- Maureen Ryan - Variety "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 is that it makes Trump's presidency seem almost inevitable." -- Gary Shteyngart - The New York Times Book Review