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Matt Bai will be in conversation with Senator Bob Kerrey at the Strand Bookstore
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
In 1987, Gary Hart seemed set to win the Democratic
nomination for president and was ahead of George H. W. Bush in the
polls. Until rumors of marital infidelity and a photo was taken of Hart
and a model near a yacht named Monkey Business. Political reporter Matt Bai
recounts the Hart affair and argues that it marked a turning point in
the ethos of political media-and, by extension, politics itself-when
candidates' "character" began to draw more attention than their
political experience. In his book All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid,
Bai makes the compelling case that this changed how politics is
covered—private lives became public, news became entertainment, and
politics became fodder for the tabloids.
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