In 2014, he published a biography about Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes called The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country,[2] which debuted at #9 on The New York Times Bestseller list.[4][5]
SF Gate called his biography of Roger Ailes, the founder and longtime chairman and CEO of Fox News, Fox Television Stations and 20th Television, The Loudest Voice in the Room, "classic in a subgenre that might be called Enraged TV Executives Throwing Things."[12] Sherman interviewed 600 people for the book, but did not have an interview with Ailes himself.[12] Sherman portrays Ailes' leadership of Fox News as "absolute".[13] Ken Kurson wrote that the Ze'ev Chafets' biography, Roger Ailes: Off Camera, released before Sherman's book, "does a better job penetrating the psyche of Mr. Ailes (Mr. Chafets had extensive access to the wizard), and Mr. Sherman’s book does a better job depicting the phenomenon of Fox News and its cultural meaning."[14] Fox News has denied many of the events depicted in the book.[15] The book led to a number of media reports about Fox and its culture.[16][17] Jay Ambrose [who?] said that readers "should also not worry yourself to death about" The Loudest Voice in the Room because Ailes is a "fascinating if endlessly castigated man whose direction of Fox News divided nothing."[18]
In May 2018, it was announced that Sherman would write the screenplay for the film The Apprentice.[3] The film, which had its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2024 and was nominated for a Palme d'Or, examines Donald Trump's career as a real estate businessman in New York in the 1970s and 1980s.[21]
Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family — and the World. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2026.[24]
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