The Fall
by Michael Wolff
View on GoodreadsWolff's 2023 book on the Murdoch family and Fox News — Rupert's late years, the succession question, the Dominion lawsuit, the Tucker Carlson firing, and the institutional dynamics that have driven the empire through the Trump era.
Core ideas
- The succession is the book's central drama — Lachlan vs. James as parallel possibilities for the empire's direction, with Rupert's late-life choices effectively settling it for Lachlan and the right-populist Fox direction.
- The Tucker Carlson period and exit is reconstructed at length — Wolff's account of Carlson's relationship with Murdoch, the internal Fox dynamics around the Dominion lawsuit, and the specific moment that ended Carlson's primetime tenure.
- The Dominion lawsuit reveals (the internal Fox messages about Trump's stolen-election claims) are integrated as the book's load-bearing documentary material — the texts and emails are the kind of contemporaneous record that journalism only occasionally gets to work with.
Published2023
Pages320
ISBN9781250879264
ReadFeb 2026
