Hated by All the Right People

A revelatory, jaw-dropping portrait of Tucker Carlson's career and his history of reinvention, and a story of how the right-wing media lost its mind.

New York Magazine writer Jason Zengerle's eye-opening narrative follows Tucker Carlson's infamous journey from gifted young intern at The New Republic to a noxious talking head on Fox News, and then to his dethroning and defenestration.

In the tradition of Our Man and The Loudest Voice in the Room, Zengerle examines how Tucker Carlson's Zelig-like 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.


'Jason Zengerle deftly chronicles Tucker Carlson's ideological evolution from bow-tied libertarian into the MAGA media's most influential voice. This nuanced biography tells the urgent story of the Republican Party's capitulation to Donald Trump.'
-Gabriel Sherman, New York Times bestselling author of The Loudest Voice in the Room