A major publisher just canceled a big-budget book on the former Fox News star, cementing his mainstream absence.
. His Capital City column chronicles the inside conversations and big trends shaping Washington politics.
Want to read more stories like this? POLITICO Weekend delivers gripping reads, smart analysis and a bit of high-minded fun every Friday.— has rarely generated the kind of sustained attention or outrage of the closely monitored Fox monologues he did when he was the highest-rated host in history. Like Oprah Winfrey or Howard Stern, becoming his own brand made him less relevant to the broader conversation.
I got a peek at a 60,000-word chunk of draft from Zengerle’s reporting, and it presents a nuanced portrait of a generation of conservatives who grew up in the Reagan era, came to Washington in the 1990s, and were pulled in wildly different directions as the Bush administration floundered and the new GOP embraced Trump. That’s fascinating stuff — if not exactly the kind of scathing hate-read whose scandalous allegations will send books flying off shelves in blue-city bookstores.
There’s a possibly even bigger challenge when chronicling a figure like Carlson — and it’s a challenge that is becoming more common as the worlds of politics and media collide: Many of the biggest outrages happen in plain sight, which makes the investigative biographer’s role feel less crucial.,” a sprawling investigation of the TV host’s rise to a leading role in the political right. But few of the three-part, 20,000-word story’s most talked-about details involved digging up dirt.
Untethered from larger institutions, a bomb-thrower attracts less attention, even if plenty of people are still influenced by his opinions.
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