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All the truth is out : the week politics went tabloid / Matt Bai.

Record details

ISBN: 0307474682 (trade paperback)
ISBN: 9780307474681 (trade paperback)
ISBN: 0307273385 (hardback)
ISBN: 9780307273383 (hardback)
ISBN: 0307273385 : HRD
ISBN: 9780307273383 : HRD
ISBN: 0307273385
ISBN: 9780307273383
ISBN: 9780307273383 (hardback)
ISBN: 0307273385 (hardback)
ISBN: 0307474682 (trade paperback)
ISBN: 9780307474681 (trade paperback)
Physical Description: xv, 263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index. "A Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface: What It Took -- Troublesome Gulch -- Tilting Toward Culture Death -- Out There -- Follow Me Around -- "I Do Not Think That's a Fair Question" -- All the Truth Is Out -- Exile -- A Lesser Land -- A Note on Sourcing -- About the Author. Preface: What it took -- Troublesome gulch -- Tilting toward culture death -- Out there -- Follow me around -- "I do not think that's a fair question" -- All the truth is out -- Exile -- A lesser land.
Summary, etc.:	"The former chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine brilliantly revisits the Gary Hart affair and looks at how it changed forever the intersection of American media and politics. In 1987, Gary Hart--articulate, dashing, refreshingly progressive--seemed a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination for president and led George H.W. Bush comfortably in the polls. And then: rumors of marital infidelity, an indelible photo of Hart and a model snapped near a fatefully named yacht (Monkey Business), and it all came crashing down in a blaze of flashbulbs, the birth of 24-hour news cycles, tabloid speculation, and late-night farce. Matt Bai shows how the Hart affair marked a crucial turning point in the ethos of political media--and, by extension, politics itself--when candidates' 'character' began to draw more fixation than their political experience. Bai offers a poignant, highly original, and news-making reappraisal of Hart's fall from grace (and overlooked political legacy) as he makes the compelling case that this was the moment when the paradigm shifted--private lives became public, news became entertainment, and politics became the stuff of Page Six"-- Provided by publisher.