The brainwashing of my dad : how the rise of the right-wing media changed a father and divided our nation-- and how we can fight back
(2022)

Nonfiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Tantor Media, Inc., 2022
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 26 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781666162530 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT14830144, 1666162531 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 14830144
LANGUAGE
English
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Read by Janet Metzger

After her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News, Jen Senko feared he would never be the same again . . . Frank Senko had always known how to have a good time. But after a job change forced Frank to begin a long car commute every day, his daughter Jen noticed changes in his personality and beliefs. Long hours on the road listening to talk radio commentators like Rush Limbaugh sucked her father into a suspicion-laden worldview dominated by conspiracy theories, fake news, and rants about the "coastal elite" and "libtards" trying to destroy America. Over the course of a few years, Jen's dad went from a nonpolitical, open-minded Democrat to a radical, angry, and intolerant right-wing devotee who became a stranger to those closest to him. As politics began to take precedence over everything else in her father's life, Jen was mystified. What happened to her dad? Jen began the search for answers, and found them . . . as well as stories from countless other families like her own. Based on the award-winning documentary, The Brainwashing of My Dad uncovers the alarming right-wing strategy to wield the media as a weapon against our very democracy

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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