THE FRONT RUNNER - Softcover

Bai, Matt

 
9780008333218: THE FRONT RUNNER
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0008333211 ISBN 13: 9780008333218
Verlag: HarperNonFiction, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Now a major motion picture starring Hugh Jackman.

When politics went tabloid…

In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart seemed like a no-brainer for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination. He was articulate, dashing, refreshingly progressive and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls. However, he was also a deeply private man, uneasy when attention moved away from his political views to his personal life. Then, in one tumultuous week, it all came crashing down. Rumours of marital infidelity, a photo of Hart and a model snapped near a fatefully-named yacht, 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, revisits the Gary Hart affair and unpicks how one man’s tragedy forever changed the nature of political media and, by extension, politics itself. This was the moment when the paradigm shifted – private lives became public; news became entertainment; and politics became tabloid.

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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. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

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Verlag
HarperNonFiction
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0008333211
ISBN 13 
9780008333218
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
286
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