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38.Shushannah Walshe and Alexander Mallin, “All But One Former GOP Nominee to Skip Republican National Convention,” ABC News, 5 May 2016; Tessa Stuart, “ 27 Best Republican Excuses for Skipping Trump’s RNC,” Rolling Stone, 18 July 2016.
39.Stephen Stromberg, “The GOP’s Despicable First Night of the Republican National Convention,” Washington Post, 19 July 2016; Sam Frizell, “Chris Christie Fills New Convention Role: Donald Trump’s Attack Dog,” Politico, 19 July 2016.
40.“Full Text: Donald Trump 2016 RNC Draft Speech Transcript,” Politico, 21 July 2016.
41.Michael M. Grymbaum, “Television Networks Struggle to Provide Equal Airtime in Era of Trump,” New York Times, 30 May 2016.
42.Philip Bump, “Assessing a Clinton Argument that the Media Helped Elect Trump,” Washington Post, 12 September 2017; Michael Crowley, “Trump Urges Russia to Hack Clinton’s Email,” Politico, 27 July 2016.
43.Margaret Sullivan, “Facebook’s Role in Trump’s Win is Clear. No Matter What Mark Zuckerburg Says,” Washington Post, 7 September 2017; Natasha Bertrand, “Shuttered Facebook Group That Organized Anti-Clinton, Anti-Immigrant Rallies Across Texas Was Linked to Russia,” Business Insider, 13 September 2017; Maya Kosoff, “Mark Zuckerburg’s Russia Problem is Bigger Than Facebook,” Vanity Fair, 14 September 2017.
44.Jennifer Agiesta, “Post-Convention Poll: Clinton Retakes Lead Over Trump,” CNN, 2 August 2016; Shannon Stapleton, “Hillary Clinton Leads by a Dozen in Latest August Poll,” Newsweek, 23 August 2016; Stephen Shepard, “Pollsters: Trump Approaching Zero Hour,” Politico, 17 August 2016; Nick Bryant, “US Election: Has Trump Already Blown It?” BBC News, 19 August 2016; Jim Rutenburg and James Poniewozik, “Can the Media Recover From This Election?” New York Times, 8 November 2016.
45.Jonathan Martin, Jim Rutenberg, and Maggie Haberman, “Donald Trump Appoints Media Firebrand to Run Campaign,” New York Times, 17 August 2016.
46.Joseph Bernstein, “Alt-White: How the Breitbart Machine Laundered Racist Hate,” Buzzfeed, 5 October 2017; Sarah Posner, “How Donald Trump’s New Campaign Chief Created an Online Haven for White Supremacists,” Mother Jones, 22 August 2016; Martin, Rutenberg, and Haberman, “Donald Trump Appoints Media Firebrand.”
47.Chris Kahn, “Clinton Leads Trump By 5 in Reuters/Ipsos Poll,” Reuters, 26 August 2016; “Hillary Clinton’s Alt-Right Speech, Annotated,” Washington Post, 25 August 2016; Alan Rappeport, “Hillary Clinton Denounces the ‘Alt-Right,’ and the Alt-Right is Thrilled,” New York Times, 26 August 2016.
48.Amy Chozick, “Hillary Clinton Calls Many Trump Backers ‘Deplorables,’ and G.O.P. Pounces,” New York Times, 10 September 2016. On the problems in the Clinton campaign, see Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign (New York: Crown, 2017); Amy Chozick, Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling (New York: Harper, 2018).
49.Hannah Hartig, John Lapinski, and Stephanie Psyllos, “Clinton Holds Steady Against Trump as Campaign Enters Final Weeks: Poll,” NBC News, 6 September 2016; “Transcript: Donald Trump’s Taped Comments About Women,” New York Times, 8 October 2016.
50.Ellen Nakashima, “U.S. Government Officially Accuses Russia of Hacking Campaign to Interfere with Elections,” Washington Post, 7 October 2016.
51.David A. Fahrenthold, “Trump Recorded Having Extremely Lewd Conversation About Women in 2005,” Washington Post, 8 October 2016; Tina Nguyen, “Report: Reince Preibus Urged Trump to Drop Out Over Access Hollywood Tape,” Vanity Fair, 8 December 2016; Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “ ‘Still the Best Candidate’: Some Evangelicals Still Back Trump Despite Lewd Video,” Washington Post, 8 October 2016; Jennifer Ageista, “Clinton Leads By 5 Heading Into Final Two Weeks,” CNN, 25 October 2016.
52.Alex Lubben, “This One Insane Day Changed the Course of U.S. Politics Forever,” Vice News, 23 June 2017; Nate Silver, “The Comey Letter Probably Cost Clinton the Election,” FiveThirtyEight, 3 May 2017.
53.“Election Night Live: Media’s Campaignpalooza Comes Down to a Wild End,” Advertising Age, 8 November 2016.
54.Marisa Guthrie, “Inside Fox News’ Studio as an ‘Unreal, Surreal’ Election Night Played Out,” Hollywood Reporter, 9 November 2016; John McCormick, “The Election Came Down to 77,744 Votes in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan,” Weekly Standard, 10 November 2016.
55.Transcript, Donald Trump’s Victory Speech, CNN, 9 November 2016.
Epilogue
1.David Jackson and Doug Stanglin, “Trump Is Now President: ‘The Forgotten . . . Will Be Forgotten No Longer,’ ” USA Today, 20 January 2017; Peter Baker, “Trump Abandons Trans-Pacific Partnership, Obama’s Signature Trade Deal,” New York Times, 23 January 2017; Russell Berman, “What’s In—And Out—of the Final Republican Tax Bill,” The Atlantic, 17 December 2017; Dylan Scott and Alvin Ching, “The Republican Tax Bill Will Exacerbate Economic Inequality in America,” Vox, 4 December 2017.
2.Shawn Musgrave and Patrick Nussbaum, “Trump Thrives in Areas That Lack Traditional News Outlets,” Politico, 4 April 2018.
3.Sarah Frostenson, “The Women’s Marches May Have Been the Largest Demonstration in US History,” Vox, 31 January 2017; Seema Mehta, “Here’s Where All Those Pink Hats at the Women’s March Originated,” Los Angeles Times, 21 January 2017; Christen A. Johnson and KT Hawbaker, “#MeToo: A Timeline of Events,” Chicago Tribune, 19 March 2018; “The Silence Breakers,” Time, 7 December 2017.
4.Steve Almasy and Darran Simon, “A Timeline of President Trump’s Travel Bans,” CNN, 30 March 2017; Andy Newman, “Highlights: Reaction to Trump’s Travel Ban,” New York Times, 29 January 2017; Amy B. Wang, “Trump Lashes Out at ‘So-Called Judge’ Who Temporarily Blocked Travel Ban,” Washington Post, 4 February 2017; Rebecca Savransky, “Appeals Court Cites Trump Tweets in Ruling Against Travel Ban,” The Hill, 12 June 2017.
5.Gregory Krieg, “How Donald Trump’s Rhetoric Translates to Government Paper,” CNN, 25 January 2017; Jill Colvin, “Trump Suggests Paying for US Border Wall with Pentagon Funds,” Stars and Stripes, 27 March 2018.
6.Yeganeh Torbati, “U.S. Deportations Down in 2017 but Immigration Arrests Up,” Reuters, 5 December 2017; Adam Edelman, “Trump Ends DACA Program, No New Applications Accepted,” NBC News, 5 September 2017.
7.Joe Heim, “Recounting a Day of Rage, Hate, Violence and Death,” Washington Post, 14 August 2017; Rosie Gray, “Trump Defends White-Nationalist Protesters: ‘Some Very Fine People on Both Sides,’ ” The Atlantic, 15 August 2017.
8.Greg Toppo, “ 2017 is the Deadliest Year for Mass Killings in at Least a Decade,” USA Today, 6 November 2017; Saeed Ahmed, “ 2 of the 5 Deadliest Mass Shootings in Modern US History Happened in the Last 35 Days,” CNN, 6 November 2017; Elizabeth Chuck, Alex Johnson, and Corky Siemaszko, “ 17 Killed in Mass Shooting at High School in Parkland, Florida,” NBC News, 14 February 2018; Emily Witt, “How the Survivors of Parkland Began the Never Again Movement,” The New Yorker, 19 February 2018; Dana R. Fisher, “Here’s Who Actually Attended the March for Our Lives,” Washington Post, 28 March 2018.
9.Michael D. Shear and Matt Apuzzo, “F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump,” New York Times, 9 May 2017; James Griffiths, “Trump Said He Considered ‘This Russia Thing’ Before Firing FBI Director Comey,” CNN, 12 May 2017; Andrew Prokop, “All of Robert Mueller’s Indictments and Plea Deals in the Russia Investigation So Far,” Vox, 1 March 2018; Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman, “Andrew McCabe, a Target of Trump’s F.B.I. Scorn, Is Fired Over Candor Questions,” New York Times, 16 March 2018.
10.Kyle Cheney, “ ‘Off the Rails’: House Russia Probe Hits New Low,” Politico, 3 March 2018; Erin Kelly, “Russia Probe: House Intel Republicans End Investigation, Find ‘No Evidence’ of Collusion,” USA Today, 12 March 2018.
11.Jennifer Epstein, “Trump’s Approval Nudges Higher Despite Turmoil, Two Polls Find,” Bloomberg, 27 March 2018; Andrew Marantz, “How ‘Fox and Friends’ Rewrites Trump’s Reality,” The New Yorker,
15 January 2018; Callum Borchers, “Sean Hannity Personifies Trump’s TV Presidency,” Washington Post, 2 February 2018; Maxwell Tani and Asawin Suebsaeng, “Trump ‘Cherishes’ Lou Dobbs So Much He Puts Him on Speakerphone for Oval Office Meetings,” Daily Beast, 2 April 2018; Kevin Liptak and Dan Merica, “Kudlow to Become Trump’s Next Top Economic Adviser,” CNN, 15 March 2018; Joe Concha, “Report: Fox News Anchor Heather Nauert to Join State Department,” The Hill, 4 March 2017; Margaret Harding McGill and John Hendel, “How Trump’s FCC Aided Sinclair’s Expansion,” Mother Jones, 6 August 2017; Brian Stelter, “Sinclair’s New Media-Bashing Promos Rankle Local Anchors,” CNN, 7 March 2018; Hadas Gold, “Sinclair Increases ‘Must-Run’ Boris Epshteyn Segments,” Politico, 11 July 2017; Timothy Burke, “How America’s Largest Local TV Owner Turned Its News Anchors Into Soldiers in Trump’s War on the Media,” Deadspin, 31 March 2018.
INDEX
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AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), 115
ABC television network
“adult content” warnings, 229
“Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, 74–75
civil rights movement coverage, 45
The Day After, 125
gay characters on Soap, 83
Iranian hostage crisis coverage, 100
oligopoly of news in 1970s, 22
Roots series, 52
and Satellite News Channel, 141
Abernathy, Ralph, 48
Abizad, John P., 285
Able Archer 83 (NATO exercise), 126
abortion, 78–79
George W. Bush’s efforts to restrict, 272
Jerry Falwell’s opposition to, 94
Reagan’s Supreme Court plans, 171
Religious Right and, 89–91
Supreme Court rulings, 193
Abraham Lincoln, USS, 267
ABSCAM, 100–101
Abu Ghraib prison scandal, 269–70
Access Hollywood tapes, 345–46, 352
acid rain, 191–92
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), 155–56
ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), 178, 179
Acuña, Rodolfo, 53–54
Addington, David, 258
AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children), 219
affirmative action, 61–63, 219
Affordable Care Act
and election of 2012, 314–15
passage of, 303–7
Trump’s efforts to undermine, 349–50
Afghanistan War (2001–), 252–55
Africa, anti-AIDS initiatives in, 263–64
African Americans; See also affirmative action; civil rights; school segregation/desegregation
Black Lives Matter movement, 326–28
cultural nationalism, 52
as elected officials, 49–51
and election of 2008, 290
home ownership, 27
imprisonment of, 236–37
and MTV, 144
and Reagan recession, 120
struggle for equality in 1960s–1970s, 44–52
unemployment in mid-1990s, 235
Agnew, Spiro, 10
AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), 160–61, 175–79, 229, 263–64
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), 178, 179
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 219
AIG (American International Group), 293
Ailes, Roger, 23, 215, 224–25, 343
Air America Radio, 274
airline stewardesses, 69
air pollution, 191–92
airport security, 257
Aldrin, Buzz, 142
Alfred Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City) bombing (1995), 220–21
Alianza Federal de Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Land Grants), 53
Allbaugh, Joe, 282
Allen, Paul, 146
All in the Family (TV program), 32, 76
All the President’s Men (movie), 19–20, 25
al-Qaeda
and Afghanistan War, 252, 254
and death of bin Laden, 322
and Iraq War, 287
9/11 attack, 249, 251
9/11 hearings, 269
Alter, Jonathan, 252
Altman, Robert, 17
Alt Right, 320, 329, 343, 344, 354–55
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), 115
American Bandstand (TV program), 155
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 155–56
American Enterprise Institute, 109
American Family Association, 93, 157
American Gas Party, 40
American International Group (AIG), 293
American Medical Association, 302
American Psychiatric Association, 82
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009), 299–300; See also economic stimulus package (2009)
Americans with Disabilities Act (1990), 192
American Television and Communications, Inc., 137
“American way of life,” 7
America Online, 233
Amway Corporation, 97
Andreessen, Marc, 233
Andruzzi, Joe, 254
anthrax incidents, 255–56
antiabortion movement, 116–17
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (1996), 221
antiwar protests, Iraq War, 265–66
Apple, R. W., Jr., 251
Apple Computers, 146–49
Apprentice, The (TV program), 332, 335
Arizona Republic, 21
Arlington Group, 273
Armey, Dick, 300
Armitage, Richard, 269
arms-for-hostages scandal, 161–65
Arthur, Bea, 76
Ashcroft, John, 272
Asian Americans, 54–57
As Nasty as They Wanna Be (2 Live Crew), 157, 158
athletics, 73–74, 138
Atlanta Braves, 139
Atlanta Hawks, 139
Atlantic magazine, 117–18
Atlantic Records, 158
AT&T, 22–23, 136, 145, 189
Atwater, Lee, 183–84
Auchter, Thorne, 120–21
Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), 252–53
automobile manufacturing, 30
“axis of evil,” 260–61
“Baby Bells,” 145
Baier, Bret, 347
Bain Capital, 315
Baird, Zoe, 207
Baker, James, 37, 186
Baker, Susan, 152, 153
Bakke, Allan, 61–62
Bakke case, 61–63
Bakker, Jim and Tammy Faye, 93
balanced budget, 132
Ball, Robert, 115
bank mergers, 292
bankruptcy, personal, 235
Banned in the U.S.A. (2 Live Crew), 158
Bannon, Steve, 343, 344
Bar None, 238
Barone, Michael, 103
Barr, Bob, 218, 256
Basic Instinct (movie), 228
“basket of deplorables,” 344–45
Battistella, Annabelle (Fanne Fox), 12
“Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, 74–75
Baucus, Max, 304–5
Bauer, Gary, 273
Bayh, Birch, 72, 91
Beach Boys, 121
Bear Sterns, 293
Beck, Glenn, 300
Begala, Paul, 275
Begin, Menachem, 99
Benghazi attacks, 320–21
Benghazi investigation, 321–22
Benishek, Dan, 325
Bennett, William, 220, 278
Benton & Bowles, 23
Berlin Wall, fall of, 160, 169–70, 185
Berlin Wall speech (Reagan, 1987), 167
Berman, Russell, 335
Bernanke, Ben, 313
Bernstein, Carl, 19–20
&nbs
p; Betamax, 145
Bethell, Tom, 181
Bethlehem Steel, 31
bicentennial celebration (1976), 34
Biden, Joe, 194–96, 330
“Big Three” television networks, 22–23, 136
bilingual/bicultural education, 63
“Billie Jean” (song), 144
bin Laden, Osama, 253, 264, 322
“birthers,” 333–34
Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, 320, 326–28
Black Monday market crash (1987), 134
Blackmun, Harry, 79, 193
black nationalism, 47, 48
Black Panther Party for Self Defense, 47, 48
Black Power movement, 47, 48
Blades, Joan, 265
Blitzer, Wolf, 334
BLM (Black Lives Matter) movement, 320, 326–28
blogs and bloggers, 276
Blue Collar (movie), 32
“blue states,” 240–41, 289
Boehner, John
and 2011 debt ceiling battle, 312
and Benghazi investigation, 321–22
and House Republicans, 298
and NCLB, 248
and partisanship in Congress, 310, 311
resignation of, 324
Boesky, Ivan, 134
Boland, Edward, 124
Boland Amendments, 124
Bolles, Don, 21
Bolling, Eric, 312
Bond, Richard N., 199–200
Bork, Robert, 8, 172–74, 193, 194, 239
“Born in the USA” (song), 131, 169
Boston, Massachusetts, busing protests, 60–61
Boston Herald-American, 61
Bowers, Ann, 147
Bowie, David, 144
boycotts, 93
Boyd, Wes, 265
Bradley, Tom, 198
Brady, James, 110
Branch Davidians, 207–8
Brandt, Willy, 125
Brat, David, 324
Breitbart News, 5, 341, 343
Brennan, William, 79–80, 193
Brezhnev Doctrine, 169
Briggs, John, 84–85
Briggs Initiative, 84–85, 94
Brinkley, David, 104
Broderick, Matthew, 150
Brokaw, Tom, 175, 255
Bronner, Ethan, 174
Brooke, Edward, 49
Brooks, Jack, 214