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Matt Bai

Matt Bai is an author, journalist, screenwriter and Yankee fan. He’s also one of the nation’s leading voices on American politics. His second book, All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid, was listed among the best books of 2014 by NPR and Amazon.com. Matt also co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation, 'The Front Runner,' directed by Jason Reitman and starring Hugh Jackman, which debuted nationally in November 2018. Matt is currently a contributing columnist for the Washington Post. From 2014 to 2019, he was the national political columnist at Yahoo News. Before that, he was chief political correspondent for the New York Times Magazine, where he covered three presidential elections, and a columnist for both the magazine and the Times.

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Title:

The Front Runner (MP3)

Written by:

Matt Bai 

Read by:

Rob Shapiro 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

9 hours 39 minutes 

MP3 size:

398 MB 

Published:

April 28 2019 

Available Date:

April 28 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489499578 

Genres:

Non-fiction; American; Biography; Political 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia 

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AUD$ 39.95

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Bestseller

Yahoo's national political columnist and 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.

Now a major motion picture starring Hugh Jackman. 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, rumours 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 magnificently 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. The Front Runner (originally published as 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.

'A new look at a scandal that changed American politics ... [a] probing narrative.'
Kirkus Reviews

'A masterfully written account ... this first-rate work of political journalism will fan embers long thought to have gone out.'
Publishers Weekly, starred

‘Bai … tells [Hart's] story with details that only great reporting can provide.’
The Los Angeles Times