All the truth is out : the week politics went tabloid


Matt Bai
Bok Engelsk 2014 Matt. Bai
Utgitt
New York : Knopf , 2014
Omfang
XV, 263 s. : ill.
Opplysninger
"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 1- - 987, 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 infid- e- lity, an indelible photo of Hart and a model snapped near a fatefully named yacht (Monkey Business), and it all came crashing down in a bla- ze 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 ex- tensi- on, 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 grac- e (and overlooked political legacy) as he makes the compelling case that this was the moment when the paradigm shifted--private lives becam- e public- , news became entertainment, and politics became the stuff of Page Six"--
Emner
Geografisk emneord
Dewey
ISBN
9780307273383

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