How Gary Hart Forever Changed American Politics

The New York Times excerpts Matt Bai’s forthcoming must-read book, All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid.

“The Hart episode is almost universally remembered as a tale of classic hubris. A Kennedy-like figure on a fast track to the presidency defies the media to find anything nonexemplary in his personal life, even as he carries on an affair with a woman half his age and poses for pictures with her, and naturally he gets caught and humiliated. How could he not have known this would happen? How could such a smart guy have been that stupid?”