Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America by Abraham Riesman - ★★★★★

It also took me a long time to read ringmaster about Vince McMahon and the WWF ie WWE and how he pretty much took over the sport as it is, of wrestling in the United States, essentially the world. Vince McMahon's father owned a small wrestling concern that McMahon was able to take over and then merge with every other wrestling concern, some consensually, some purchased, some outright taken over to create World Wrestling Federation and to create the storylines. In addition to the business aspects of the book. There's also the political aspects, as President Trump was actually a wrestler and a participant in the WWF, the book features well worth it, political descriptions of K Fabe and the concept of stupid customers, the ones who don't know that wrestling's fake and believe it, and smart customers, the ones who do know that wrestling is fake, but act like it's real. The neat thing about the smarts is that the smarts could go backstage absolutely worship a wrestler, lose their mind as if they were the strongest man on the world, as if they were the true winner of all these matches, then go back to their box and laugh at themselves and laugh at the whole joke ironically, how wrestling is fake and how they get it, but how they are acting, whereas the stupids are not acting. They're actually believing. Then the creation of a whole nother level of this and the ultimate irony of people who believe that wrestling is fake, but also secretly believe that it's real and then are attempting to decode which elements are fake and which elements are real. This idea of K FAPE, Pig Latin for fake, resonates throughout the whole political system, especially because of Trump, and especially because of what Vince McMahon was able to do with World Wrestling Federation and with telling these stories, he eventually involves himself and his family into the storylines, creating himself as the evil president, exposing many of his own true, real feelings and insecurities through his characters and through his acting, his voice, his muscles, his steroid use and his horrible treatment of pretty much every every wrestler in the book, constantly letting them down, even letting one fall from the ceiling to his death, then manipulating his brother. McMahon comes off as a true psychopath, but an American classic, a businessman, a Rockefeller, a Carnegie, a creator, and especially now with President. Trump. His role in American history through the creation of the WWF and so forth, needs to be critically reexamined and this book is a good starting place for that. I hope you enjoy remaster about Vince McMahon and the WWE.

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