Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure Audiobook (Free)

*A New York Times Bestseller*

The first definitive, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes cultural history of the Bachelor franchise, America’s favorite guilty pleasure.

For sixteen years and thirty-six seasons, the Bachelor franchise has been a mainstay in American TV viewers’ lives. Because it premiered in 2002, the show’s popularity and relevance have only grown-more than eight million viewers tuned in to see the summary of the most latest season of The Bachelor.

Los Angeles about Bachelor Country: Inside the Globe of America’s Beloved Guilty Pleasure Instances journalist Amy Kaufman is a proud person in Bachelor Nation and has a long history with the franchise-ABC also banned her from going to show events after her insurance of this program got a touch too real because of its liking. She’s interviewed dozens of makers, contestants, and celebrity fans to give readers never-before-told details of the show’s internal workings: what it’s prefer to be trapped in the mansion “bubble”; dark, juicy tales of maker manipulation; and revelations about the alcohol-fueled debauchery occurring long before the Fantasy Collection.

Kaufman also explores what our fascination means, culturally: what the display says about just how we view so-called ideal suitors; our subconscious yearning for fairy-tale romance; and how this enduring television show provides shaped society’s emotions about love, relationship, and feminism by appealing to a marriage plot that’s as previous as the best of Jane Austen.