19. In Philipstown, a host See Open Space Institute, Hudson Highlands Land Trust.
20. the Garrison Institute Garrison Institute, “Mission and Vision,” http://www.garrisoninstitute.org/about-us/mission-and-vision, accessed Nov. 13, 2013.
21. One morning in July 2008 Author interviews with Putnam County News & Recorder employees.
22. They could keep their jobs Boyer, “Fox Among the Chickens.”
23. “The first one” Author interview with journalist Michael Turton.
24. In public Stelter, “Big-Time Cable News to Small-Town Paper.”
25. “He said the community” Author interview with Kevin Foley.
26. campaign volunteer Matthew Boyle, “A Force Behind Met Life’s IPO,” PR Week, July 26, 1999.
27. Later that summer Author interviews with former Putnam County News & Recorder employees.
28. she didn’t last Maureen Hunt email to Putnam County News & Recorder staff, Oct. 31, 2008.
29. Alison Rooney Author interview with a former Putnam County News & Recorder employee.
30. But that honeymoon ended “Myth and Deception at Play in Maria Pia Marrella Exhibit at Garrison Art Center,” Putnam County News & Recorder, March 4, 2009.
31. After the release Reverend Brian McSweeney, “A Degradation of the Religious Beliefs of the Catholic Church,” Putnam County News & Recorder, March 11, 2009.
32. A few weeks later “PVHS TheatreWorks Presents a Musical,” Putnam County News & Recorder, April 15, 2009.
33. After the event Draft of article submitted by Michael Turton on the October 2008 mock election at Haldane Middle School viewed by author.
34. The headline had been changed Michael Turton, “Mock Presidential Election Held at Haldane,” Putnam County News & Recorder, Oct. 22, 2008.
35. “I’ve been mulling” Email from Michael Turton to Maureen Hunt and Brian O’Donnell.
36. a series of accusatory emails Email correspondence between Michael Turton, Beth Ailes, and Roger Ailes. Beth Ailes declined to be interviewed for this book.
37. In February 2009 Author interview with a person familiar with the meeting.
38. Lindsley came on Author interview with former News Corp executive Martin Singerman.
39. Lindsley jumped at the opportunity Author interviews with acquaintances of Joe Lindsley. Lindsley declined to comment.
40. “[Ailes] was said” Author interview with Leonora Burton.
41. “I don’t think” Author interview with Robert Ailes Jr.
42. “A team of landscapers” Leonora Burton, Lament of an Expat: How I Discovered America and Tried to Mend It (Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2013), 164–65.
43. “He can live” Author interview with a friend of Roger Ailes.
44. “I’m not allowed” Author interview with Robert Ailes Jr.
45. As Lindsley began Boyer, “Fox Among the Chickens.”
46. The unsigned attack “Debt, Decisions, and Destiny” (editorial), Putnam County News & Recorder, May 13, 2009.
47. Leonora Burton stopped selling the paper Author interview with Leonora Burton.
48. Elizabeth Anderson later decided Author interview with Elizabeth Anderson.
49. Lindsley relished the partisan combat Author interviews with acquaintances of Joe Lindsley.
50. James Borkowski Author interview with attorney and former Putnam County town justice James Borkowski.
51. Borkowski lost to Smith Terence Corcoran, “Smith Easily Defeats McConville for 3rd Term as Putnam Sheriff,” Journal News (Westchester County), Nov. 4, 2009.
52. Richard Shea See website for Richard Shea Construction, http://www.richardsheaconstruction.com/contact.
53. “Jesus, wait a minute” Junod, “Why Does Roger Ailes Hate America?”
54. The first time Shea met Ailes Carr and Arango, “A Fox Chief at the Pinnacle of Media and Politics.”
55. A few weeks later Author interview with a person familiar with the matter. Richard Shea declined to comment.
56. “You can’t mention” Author interview with a person familiar with the matter.
57. “You have no fucking idea” Author interview with a person familiar with the matter.
58. Jeannette Yannitelli Author interview with Putnam County resident Jeannette Yannitelli.
59. Shortly before 7:30 “Residential Re-Zoning: Will Property Owners Weigh In?,” Putnam County News & Recorder, April 7, 2010.
60. “Let us observe” Account of the meeting comes from “Zoning Workshop Draws Hundreds,” Putnam County News & Recorder, April 14, 2010.
61. An hour into the contentious meeting Transcript provided by Cold Spring resident Susan Peehl.
62. Ailes stood up and intervened For footage of Ailes’s remarks, see YouTube video of town hall meeting at Haldane High School on April 7, 2010 (video by Susan Peehl), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqEErpyQWAs.
63. Ailes loved to quote Washington In an email from Mary Thompson, a research historian at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington: “We’d love to know the source where you found this alleged quote, so that we can add it to our records on spurious George Washington quotes.” The phrase “a violation of my property is a violation of my personhood” appears in L. William Countryman, Dirt, Greed, & Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007), p. 144, in a chapter on women and children as property.
64. After the meeting concluded Author interview with Philipstown board member Nancy Montgomery.
65. Later, Ailes had his own version Junod, “Roger Ailes on Roger Ailes: The Interview Transcripts, Part 2.”
66. In the fall of 2010 Author interview with two persons familiar with the meeting in Richard Shea’s office. Shea declined to comment on the meeting.
67. “It was ninety percent inaccurate” Author interview with land use attorney Joel Russell.
68. To that end Liz Schevtchuk Armstrong, “Mystery Point Sold to Billionaire Philanthropist,” Philipstown.info, June 22, 2013, http://philipstown.info/2013/06/22/mystery-point-sold-to-billionaire-philanthropist/.
69. “I used to think” Author interview with Philipstown supervisor Richard Shea.
70. Putnam County resident Gordon Stewart Author interview with Gordon Stewart.
71. “He was an easy guy” Author interview with Robert Ailes Jr.
72. Shortly after Stewart Author interview with Gordon Stewart. See also Annie Chesnut, “District Settles with School-Related Personnel,” Putnam County News & Recorder, Dec. 17, 2008.
73. In the fall of 2009 Author interviews with Gordon Stewart and Susan Peehl.