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In 1987, Gary Hart—an articulate, dashing, refreshingly progressive politician—seemed a shoo-in for the Democratic nomination for president. And then his campaign came off the rails. There were rumors of marital infidelity, an indelible photo of Hart and a model snapped near a fatefully named yacht namedMonkey Business. The scandal erupted in a blaze of 24-hour news cycles, tabloid speculation, and late-night farce. Matt Bai is uniquely qualified to present this story of politics-meets-media. He 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 byThe New York Times. In All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid (Knopf; $35.00), Bai shows how the Hart affair marked a crucial turning point in the ethos of political media—and, by extension, politics itself, as candidates' "character" began to draw more fixation than their political experience. Bai depicts the story of Hart's fall from grace as he makes the compelling case that this was the moment when the paradigm shifted, when private lives became public, news became entertainment, and politics became the stuff of Page Six. Publishers Weekly writes, "[This is] A masterfully written account...this first-rate work of political journalism will fan embers long thought to have gone out."