American Idol: The Untold Story

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Each season, American Idol - the US version of the wildly successful British talent show Pop Idol - delivers on a promise whose epic story is unparalleled in the annals of competition and has reshaped celebrity culture: take an unknown dreamer from somewhere in the US and turn him or her into a genuine star. American Idol chronicles the triumphs and travails, the harrowing backstage drama and the nail-biting onstage battles that built this revolutionary show.

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For three years, Richard Rushfield has covered American Idol for the Los Angeles Times, writing hundreds of columns and conducting thousands of hours of interviews with the cast and crew, going deeper inside the circus than any report ever has. A former columnist for the LA Times, he is currently an entertainment columnist for the Daily Beast, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and author of the long running Intelligence Report column.