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FREE ALL THE TRUTH IS OUT: THE WEEK POLITICS WENT TABLOID PDF Matt Bai | 288 pages | 01 Jul 2016 | Random House USA Inc | 9780307474681 | English | New York, United States All the truth is out : the week politics went tabloid | Lafayette Library is closed until further notice. Outdoor book drops are open. No fines are charged on overdue items. View Library updates. Lafayette Public Library. My Account. Log Out. Search for. Advanced Search. Logged In As. Contact Us or Request Items. Curbside Pickup. Curbside pickup instructions. Featured Resources. Library Information. Other FLC Libraries. Average Rating. Bai, Matt. Choose a Format. On Shelf. Lafayette Nonfiction Area. Quick Copy View. See Full Copy Details. Place Hold. Date Edition Publisher Phys Desc. Language Availability First edition. Alfred A. Knopf, xv, pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. English On Shelf. More Info Place Hold. Available Online. Online OverDrive Collection. Check Out OverDrive. Add a Review. Add To List. 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 Businessand it all came crashing down in a blaze of flashbulbs, the birth of 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. Also in This Series. More Like This. More Copies In All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid. Loading Prospector Copies Table of Contents. 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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 All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid has shifted under our feet. NPR Choice page Matt Bai writes in this book :. White was reasonably sure that only three presidential candidates he had ever met had denied themselves the pleasures invited by that aphrodisiac—Harry Truman, George Romney and Jimmy Carter. He was reasonably sure that all the others he had met had, at one time or another, on the campaign trail, accepted casual partners. Apple described what was probably a fairly typical experience for reporters covering the Kennedy White House:. In earlyfor example, a fledgling reporter for this newspaper was assigned to patrol the lobby of the Carlyle Hotel while President Kennedy was visiting New York City. There was little reason to fear being ambushed on the personal front while trying to make oneself accessible on the political front. When Thomas Eagleton, shortly after joining George McGovern on the Democratic ticket inwas revealed to have undergone shock treatment for depression, his temperament became a legitimate news story, along with the fact that he had neglected to mention it. After all, Gary and Lee Hart had fallen in love and married as kids, in the confines of a strict church where even dancing was prohibited. And so here he was, young and famous and sturdily good-looking, powerful in a city where power was everything, and friends knew that he and Lee—as so often happens with college sweethearts—had matured into different people, that she spent long periods back in Denver with the two kids, that she could drive him absolutely crazy at times. Why would they? Whose business was it, anyway? The newsweeklies—Time, Newsweek, and to a lesser extent U. And so it made sense that it was Fineman, a sharp and competitive reporter, who went where others on the bus were dying to go, and whose editors let him. Friends contend that his dating has been confined to marital separations—he and Lee have had two—nonetheless many political observers expect the rumors to emerge as a campaign issue. And so what happened next is that every reporter who scored a sit-down with Hart in the hours after his announcement, on what was supposed to be a triumphant cross-country tour, kept asking him about the long-standing rumors of his unspecified affairs, which in fact had been just as long-standing and unspecified the week before, but were only now—thanks to Newsweek—considered to have met the definition of news. When it got back to Hart that operatives for some of his rivals had been calling reporters in the days leading up to his announcement to fan the flame what would happen to the party if this stuff came out after he was nominated, when it was too late to get someone else onto the ballot? A candidate accusing rival campaigns of defaming him was a story any day of All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid week, no matter what the issue—that the issue here was sex, rather than, say, a proposal to tax foreign oil, only made it irresistible. Fiedler opened with an anecdote about Hart wandering to the back of the plane during the announcement tour, to face the reporters who were demanding he refute the rumors about affairs. Or should the media withhold publication until they have solid evidence of infidelity? The analysis ended with a quote from Hart himself. Written by McGee, Fiedler, and Savage, the 7,plus-word piece—Moby-Dick—type proportions by the standards of a front page—is remarkable reading, for a couple of reasons. It was p. Clearly, the reporters and editors at the Herald believed themselves to be reconstructing a scandal of similar proportions, the kind of thing that would lead to Pulitzers and movie deals. The solemn tone of the piece suggests that Fiedler and his colleagues believed themselves to be the only ones standing between America and another menacing, immoral president; reading it, you might think Hart had been caught bludgeoning a beautiful young woman to death, rather than taking her to dinner. He held his arms around his midsection and leaned forward slightly with his back against the brick wall. And he would remember his own sense of disbelief. Which was so not only out of character, but it was out of my own sense of who I was and what I was doing. And yet, for all that, Fiedler felt compelled to be there; he recalled no doubt about that. In fact, Fiedler would always remember that his overriding emotion in that alley was anger. It was Hart who had set all this in motion, who had dragged Fiedler and the others into the dirt and muck of tabloid journalism, by refusing to tell the truth about who he was. It was Hart who had disappointed and debased Fiedler, not the other way around. That this is the guy who only a few weeks before had stood up in front of the world—and, in a sense me, because I was there with the press corps—and talked about ethics, and said he wanted to be held to the highest standards and said he was going to run a campaign that exemplified all that. And here I am in an alley, late on a Saturday night, confronting him about a relationship that just seemed completely sordid. And I kind of felt angry about being in that position. Somewhere above the Atlantic seaboard, anyone sitting next to Fiedler would probably have seen him jolt upward in his seat as if suddenly receiving an electric current to his brain. There it was, All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid up at him from the page—Hart explicitly inviting him All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid his colleagues to do exactly the kind of surveillance they had undertaken the night before…. By morning, everyone who read the Times would know that Hart had goaded the press into hiding outside his townhouse and tracking his movements. Fiedler recoiled in his seat and winced. He looked mortified. Not only should the Herald never have been spying in the first place, they said, but this so-called surveillance was a joke. The two-pronged assault on the Herald story was as much for All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid benefit of the reporters—and their editors—as it was for their readers. But on this question of whether presidential candidates should be given the same treatment as a Jim Bakker or a Fawn Hall, the soap opera stars of nightly newscasts in the spring ofthe rest of the media still hung in the balance.
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