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The rollicking saga of reality television, a “sweeping” ( cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning “Passionate, exquisitely told . . . With muscular prose and an exacting eye for detail . . . [Nussbaum] knits her talents for sharp analysis and telling reportage well.”-- In development as a docuseries from the studio behind ONE OF A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION Who invented reality television, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why can’t we look away? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of “dirty documentary”--from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump--Emily Nussbaum unearths the origin story of the genre that ate the world, as told through the lively voices of the people who built it. At once gimlet-eyed and empathetic, In sharp, absorbing prose, Nussbaum traces the jagged fuses of experimentation that exploded with What happened to the first reality stars, the Louds--and why won’t they speak to the couple who filmed them? Which serial killer won on
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