title: The Loudest Voice in the Room
text: # The Loudest Voice in the Room
  
  The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country is a 2014 biographical book about Fox News president Roger Ailes written by Gabriel Sherman, which debuted at #9 on The New York Times Bestseller list.
  
  Sherman spent $100,000 from his advance to have two fact-checkers go through the book.
  
  ## TV adaptation
  
  A television series based on the Sherman book premiered in 2019 on Showtime. It stars Russell Crowe as Roger Ailes and Naomi Watts as Gretchen Carlson.
  
  