All The Truth Is Out - The Week Politics Went Tabloid
Matt Bai
Knopf (2014)
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Politics
Character - Political Aspects - United States, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Legislators - Biography. - United States, Mass Media - Political Aspects - United States, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections, Presidential Candidates - Press Coverage - United States, Press And Politics - History - United States, Public Opinion - History - United States, Scandals - History - United States, Tabloid Newspapers - History - United States, Hart, Gary
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"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"--
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LoC Classification E840.8.H285 .B35 2014
LoC Control Number 2014001033
Dewey 328.73/092
No. of Pages 263
Height x Width 9.8 x 6.7  inch
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