Common nonsense
Subtitle: Glenn Beck and the triumph of ignorance
By: Alexander Zaitchick
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780470557396
Description: "Traces Beck's personal history from his troubled childhood through his years as a 'morning zoo' DJ to his sudden and meteoric rise to the conservative media heap. [The author] pays special attention to Beck's transformation from alcoholic-snorting, failed disc jockey without a political thought in his head to wealthy, bile-spewing, right-wing demagogue."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Portrait of a young deejay; title: Last stop on the top 40 train; title: The luckiest loudmouth in Tampa; title: It's always about Glenn; title: This...is CNN?; title: A rodeo clown goes large; title: Beck unbound; title: False victory; title: A deep-seated hatred for...the White culture?; title: Acorn; title: Brother Beck presents : Mormon masterpiece theater; title: The ghost of Cleon Skousen; title: The 9.12 project; title: Epilogue.