All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307474681)

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In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart--a dashing, reform-minded Democrat--seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. Then, in one tumultuous week, rumors of marital infidelity and a newspaper's stakeout of Hart's home resulted in a media frenzy the likes of which had never been seen before.

Through the spellbindingly reported story of the Senator's fall from grace, Matt Bai, Yahoo News columnist and former chief political correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, shows the Hart affair to be far more than one man's tragedy: rather, it marked a crucial turning point in the ethos of political media, and the new norms of life in the public eye. All the Truth Is Out is a tour de force portrait of the American way of politics at the highest level, one that changes our understanding of how we elect our presidents and how the bedrock of American values has shifted under our feet.

Author: Matt Bai
ISBN-10: 0307474682
ISBN-13: 9780307474681
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2015
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/25/2015 pg. 32