Audiobook7 hours
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
Written by Jen Senko
Narrated by Janet Metzger
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
()
About this audiobook
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.
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.
Related to The Brainwashing of My Dad
Related audiobooks
Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Foxocracy: Inside the Network's Playbook of Tribal Warfare Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Carnage: Shattering the Myths That Fuel Gun Violence Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFacts & Fury: An Unapologetic Primer on How the GOP Has Destroyed American Democracy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Under Fire: Reporting from the Front Lines of the Trump White House Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Grift: The Downward Spiral of Black Republicans from the Party of Lincoln to the Cult of Trump Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Democracy in One Book or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5F.U.B.A.R. Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Too Dumb for Democracy?: Why We Make Bad Political Decisions and How We Can Make Better Ones Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Persist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Beautiful Things: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hate or Be Hated: How I survived Right-Wing Extremism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBeautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable—And How We Can Stop It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5They Want to Kill Americans: The Militias, Terrorists, and Deranged Ideology of the Trump Insurgency Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hard White: The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of “The Big Lie” Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Trump Tribalism and the God Module Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Politics For You
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The 48 Laws of Power Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of September 11, 2001 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Behold a Pale Horse Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5While Time Remains: A North Korean Girl's Search for Freedom in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Out of the Wreckage Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dragonfire: Four Days That (Almost) Changed America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Romney: A Reckoning Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Can't Joke About That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred, and We’re All in This Together Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blackout: How Black America Can Make Its Second Escape from the Democrat Plantation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Revenge: How Donald Trump Weaponized the US Department of Justice Against His Critics Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prince Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Brainwashing of My Dad
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
2 ratings0 reviews