A revelatory, jaw-dropping portrait of Tucker Carlson's career and a Zelig-like story of reinvention: from insider to populist, from respectability to insanity, the story of how the right-wing media lost its mind. New York Magazinewriter Jason Zengerle's eye-opening narrative follows Tucker Carlson's infamous journey from gifted young intern at The New Republicto the noxious talking head we've all witnessed on Fox News. In the tradition of Our Manand The Loudest Voice in the Room, Zengerle examines how Tucker Carlson's career offers a unique lens into the confusing, myopic, and utterly shameless evolution of American conservatism, its media presence and punditry, from the 1990s to the present.