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.
