The Webby Award-Winning Documentary is Now a New Book!
“The Brainwashing of My Dad” is out now (published October 5th)!
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Title: The Brainwashing of my Dad
Publisher: Sourcebooks (October 5, 2021)
ISBN#: 9781728239590
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- July 21, 2021 LISTEN: From a Personal Experience to a Film, Join Jen Senko, The Brainwashing of My Dad (50 mins) The Art of Film Funding podcast with Carole Dean
- “Jen's story is brilliant and gives us all insight about what we can do when lying right-wing media seize the minds of our friends and family.”
- — Thom Hartmann, New York Times bestselling author and progressive talk show host
- “The Brainwashing of My Dad is a pure delight—breezy to read while telling a compelling personal and big-picture story. The evolution of Jen Senko’s dad from playful dad to crusty conservative and then back again is the lens through which she reveals the last 40 years of rightwing media propaganda. But while Senko details the corrosive grip that characters like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have on our society, she inspires us with the redemption of her father and the superb suggestions to counter the spread of right-wing extremism. Read it and act!”
- — Medea Benjamin, author, activist and cofounder of CODEPINK
- “Jen Senko explores the root cause of America’s political crisis: the susceptibility of millions of our citizens to expert political propaganda. Tragically, one victim was her own father; luckily, she helped him recover. Anyone who wonders why there is so much hatred, division, and fear in the country needs to read this poignant story.”
- — Mike Lofgren, New York Times American author and former Republican U.S. Congressional aide
- “Ms. Senko has done a phenomenal job of combining her family’s story with meticulous research to create a compelling and relatable narrative...” → Read More... (at goodreads.com)
- — reader Suzi
- “The Brainwashing of my Dad book came out today. We already know many of the hows and whys, but Jen Senko goes deeply into the Psy-ops operation known as Fox News. Her voice is relatable to families everywhere whose loved ones have morphed into somebody different.”
- — Sue Wilson
Frank Senko had always known how to have a good time. Despite growing up in a poverty-stricken family during the Depression and having to fight his way to middle-class status as an adult, he tended to look on the bright side. 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? Was there anything she could do to help? And, most importantly, would he ever be his lovable self again? Jen began the search for answers, and found them... as well 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. Jen's story shows us how Fox News and other ultra-conservative media outlets are reshaping the way millions of Americans view the world, and encourages us to fight back.
Sourcebooks, 9781728239590, 320pp.
Publication Date: October 5, 2021