Empires die. Family dynasties shatter. Sometimes overnight. More often, in stages. Take Fox News. For three decades, the cable network not only made political careers (see: Donald J. Trump) but it also fundamentally altered- polarized-the political landscape of the United States. Its leader: the Australian right-wing billionaire Rupert Murdoch, now in his nineties. The model for Logan Roy on TV's Succession, Murdoch has been focused on his legacy, but even more on his profits, while his contentious family members jockey to take over when the old man is gone. All this is captured, moment by moment, in The Fall, a riveting investigation by the brilliant gadfly Michael Wolff. Why was Tucker Carlson canned? The true and complete story is here. Why did Fox put its might behind the failed candidacy of Ron DeSantis? Here, too. Why did failing ninety-two-year-old titan Murdoch announce his resignation from the boards of Fox Corporation and News Corp on September 21, 2023? It has been said that the push came from the imminent publication of Wolff's "amusingly vicious and very well-timed" (The New York Times) account, which was published just five days later.