The Front Runner, Movie Tie-in
Originally Published As All the Truth Is Out
(Sprache: Englisch)
Now a major motion picture "The Front Runner" starring Hugh Jackman
An NPR Best Book of the Year
In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart a dashing, reform-minded Democrat seemed a lock for the party s presidential nomination and led George...
An NPR Best Book of the Year
In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart a dashing, reform-minded Democrat seemed a lock for the party s presidential nomination and led George...
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Now a major motion picture "The Front Runner" starring Hugh JackmanAn NPR Best Book of the Year
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.
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Candidates for president and for most other significant offices, really don t try to explain their ideas or their theories of the moment anymore. It s hard to know if they really have any. Technology had a lot to do with this, of course. Kerry s controversial quote overwhelmed his campaign, at least for a few days, because of the twenty-four-hour cable news cycle that hadn t even existed when Hart ran back in 1987 a senselessly competitive environment where inexperienced producers fixate on whatever minutiae seems new, to the exclusion of all else, and where reporters and pundits rush into TV studios armed with little more than vague impressions. (It struck me, watching some of the coverage of the Kerry nuisance controversy, how few of the commentators seemed to have actually read the piece they were talking about.) But the reverberation of that one comment would have been exponentially louder just four years later, with the sudden popularity of blogs and sites like YouTube and Facebook, and it would have been downright deafening four years after that, after Twitter had taken over the world.By now, every candidate knows that a single misspoken line, a single emotional or ill-advisedly candid moment, can become a full-blown, existential crisis by the time the bus pulls up at the next rally. And if there s not much room for nuance in a cable TV report, there s none in 140 characters, which means that even a well- articulated argument can (and almost certainly will) be reduced and distorted by the time it reaches the vast majority of voters who will pay attention. Rarely is any candidate willing to risk sudden implosion by actually thinking through the complex issues out loud, as the most talented politicians of Hart s day were accustomed to doing; it s safer to traffic in poll-tested, blandly comforting gibberish about middle-class jobs and ending business as usual, which disturbs no one and does no harm. It s safer to tell yourself, as Joe Lockhart did,
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that you really don t need to cater to reporters anymore, because you can talk to your own email list directly instead. Candidates routinely complain that reporters never talk to them about the actual substance of governing, but the truth is that with few exceptions, when you ask them to do exactly that, their reflexive response is no.
At the heart of this changed dynamic, though, isn t merely a technological shift in the nation s media, but a cultural one. There was a time when politicians and the journalists who covered them, however adversarial their relationship might become at times, shared a basic sense of common purpose. The candidate s job was to win an argument about the direction of the country, and the media s job was to explain that argument and the tactics with which it was disseminated. Neither could succeed without the basic, if sometimes grudging, cooperation of the other, and often, as in the case of Hart and some of his older colleagues in the media, there existed a genuine trust and camaraderie. Modern media critics might deride these kinds of relationships as coziness or corruption, but there was a very real benefit to it for the voters, which was context. Reporters who really knew a politician could tell the difference between, say, a candidate who had misspoken from exhaustion and one who didn t know his facts. They could be expected to discern between a rank hypocrite, on one hand, and a candidate who had actually thought something through and adjusted his views, on the other.
In his engaging book The Eighteen-Day Running Mate, about Tom Eagleton s disastrous foray into national politics, Joshua Glasser describes how a bevy of reporters actually camped out in Eagleton s hotel suite so they could be there if McGovern called to offer him the number two s
At the heart of this changed dynamic, though, isn t merely a technological shift in the nation s media, but a cultural one. There was a time when politicians and the journalists who covered them, however adversarial their relationship might become at times, shared a basic sense of common purpose. The candidate s job was to win an argument about the direction of the country, and the media s job was to explain that argument and the tactics with which it was disseminated. Neither could succeed without the basic, if sometimes grudging, cooperation of the other, and often, as in the case of Hart and some of his older colleagues in the media, there existed a genuine trust and camaraderie. Modern media critics might deride these kinds of relationships as coziness or corruption, but there was a very real benefit to it for the voters, which was context. Reporters who really knew a politician could tell the difference between, say, a candidate who had misspoken from exhaustion and one who didn t know his facts. They could be expected to discern between a rank hypocrite, on one hand, and a candidate who had actually thought something through and adjusted his views, on the other.
In his engaging book The Eighteen-Day Running Mate, about Tom Eagleton s disastrous foray into national politics, Joshua Glasser describes how a bevy of reporters actually camped out in Eagleton s hotel suite so they could be there if McGovern called to offer him the number two s
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Autoren-Porträt von Matt Bai
Matt Bai is the national political columnist for Yahoo! News. For more than a decade he was a political correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, where he covered three presidential campaigns. He is the author of The Argument: Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, named a Notable Book of 2007 by the New York Times and All the Truth is Out. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland. For more information about Matt Bai, visit mattbai.com.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Matt Bai
- 2018, Film- oder Spielausgabe, 288 Seiten, 5 Abbildungen, Maße: 12,8 x 20 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: VINTAGE
- ISBN-10: 0525566139
- ISBN-13: 9780525566137
- Erscheinungsdatum: 07.01.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
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Perhaps you re one of the many millions who believe something has gone sadly wrong in national politics. . . . If so, All the Truth Is Out is for you. The Dallas Morning News
A volume of insight and wisdom, an uncommon page-turner about the turning points we don t recognize until we re too far beyond them to turn back.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
In buoyant, vivid prose . . . All the Truth Is Out gives the reader a visceral appreciation of how our political discourse has changed in the last two and a half decades, and how those changes reflect broader cultural and social shifts.
Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
An introspective book that is set in another era but offers insights into ours. . . . Bai says what is obvious that the Donna Rice furor irreparably hurt Hart but he also says what is less obvious, and very wise: that it hurt us all.
The Boston Globe
A miniclassic of political journalism that will restart the debate of 1987.
Jack Shafer, The New York Times Book Review
Compelling. . . . Bai s superb book provokes many questions, and I gulped it down in a single sitting.
Ken Auletta, The New Yorker
This book isn t just for politicos. It is a must read for anyone interested in contemporary politics and media.
The Christian Science Monitor
All the Truth Is Out offers a terrific portrait of how news gets made It s riveting, a slow-motion car crash . . . [with] shrewd observations on the miserable state of contemporary political journalism (and politicians). . . . The media, as Hart experienced, pick and choose raw material from an individual life and fashion an image that often bears only a slim resemblance to the human being behind it. What matters is not who someone really is or what he has done. What matters is the symbolic need he meets.
Salon
Bai doesn t just make an argument: He tells the juicy Hart story all over again, right down to the
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oil-stained alley in which reporters cornered the candidate and interrogated him about the blonde in his apartment. . . . Bai s important call for perspective is a reminder to all of us in the press and the electorate to recognize the complexity of the human condition, whether we re casting aside candidates because they wear a funny helmet in a tank or because they once committed adultery.
Slate
Fast-moving [and] vivid. . . . This book will tell you a lot about what politics asks of and takes out of people, and about the highly imperfect ways in which we now assess character and substance when choosing our leaders.
The Atlantic
You think you know it all: Donna Rice, Monkey Business, Hart taunting the press. You don t. The combustible mix of new technology and politics was birthed in [the 1987] presidential campaign, and there was no turning back.
NPR
Bai . . . tells [Hart s] story with details that only great reporting can provide.
Los Angeles Times
A masterfully written account . . . this first-rate work of political journalism will fan embers long thought to have gone out.
Publishers Weekly, starred review
Bai shows that he is [Richard Ben] Cramer s worthy successor his important cautionary tale will resonate with journalists and members of the media as well as with political players and readers of current history.
Library Journal, starred review
In the tradition of his friend Richard Ben Cramer, Matt Bai astonishes us by delving deeply into a story and thus overturning our views about how the press should cover politics. This fascinating and deeply significant tale shows how the rules of American politics and journalism were upended for the worse by the frenzied coverage of Gary Hart s personal life. The soot still darkens our political process.
Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
What a tally of loss is to be found in this passionate and unsparing book about a turning point in modern America an insider s account, brilliantly told by one of America s finest political journalists.
Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower
Slate
Fast-moving [and] vivid. . . . This book will tell you a lot about what politics asks of and takes out of people, and about the highly imperfect ways in which we now assess character and substance when choosing our leaders.
The Atlantic
You think you know it all: Donna Rice, Monkey Business, Hart taunting the press. You don t. The combustible mix of new technology and politics was birthed in [the 1987] presidential campaign, and there was no turning back.
NPR
Bai . . . tells [Hart s] story with details that only great reporting can provide.
Los Angeles Times
A masterfully written account . . . this first-rate work of political journalism will fan embers long thought to have gone out.
Publishers Weekly, starred review
Bai shows that he is [Richard Ben] Cramer s worthy successor his important cautionary tale will resonate with journalists and members of the media as well as with political players and readers of current history.
Library Journal, starred review
In the tradition of his friend Richard Ben Cramer, Matt Bai astonishes us by delving deeply into a story and thus overturning our views about how the press should cover politics. This fascinating and deeply significant tale shows how the rules of American politics and journalism were upended for the worse by the frenzied coverage of Gary Hart s personal life. The soot still darkens our political process.
Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
What a tally of loss is to be found in this passionate and unsparing book about a turning point in modern America an insider s account, brilliantly told by one of America s finest political journalists.
Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower
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