The Front Runner (All the Truth Is Out Movie Tie-in)

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Matt Bai. The Front Runner (All the Truth Is Out Movie Tie-in)

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CONTENTS

PREFACE. WHAT IT TOOK

1. TROUBLESOME GULCH

2. TILTING TOWARD CULTURE DEATH

3. OUT THERE

4. FOLLOW ME AROUND

5 “I DO NOT THINK THAT’S A FAIR QUESTION”

6. ALL THE TRUTH IS OUT

7. EXILE

8. A LESSER LAND

A NOTE ON SOURCING

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LIST OF SEARCHABLE TERMS

PRAISE FOR MATT BAI’S THE FRONT RUNNER

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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For Ellen

—F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

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It started as a stray reflection here and there, the brief connection of synapses as I drove across Iowa under an inky black sky, or as I sat in some god-awful roadside New Hampshire hotel, staring out at the snow-covered interstate at dawn. It grew into a doubt more pressing—a sense of something important that I had left unfinished or unexplored. I noticed how often Hart’s name came up now in the articles about John Edwards or about Tiger Woods, as if his was the most important or immoral one-night stand in the history of one-night stands, the standard of public humiliation against which all others had to be measured. Perspective, I could hear Hart saying. Perspective.

I began to notice how the issues he had first brought to the debate in the early 1980s, like energy independence and Islamic terrorism, were the same ones we were debating now, because so little had been achieved in all the time since. When a friend sent me a link to a sale on eBay, in which some collector was selling the issue of People from 1987 with Donna Rice sprawled across the cover in a bathing suit, I paid fifteen bucks for the plastic-wrapped magazine. I had no real reason to buy it, except that I suddenly felt compelled to take it out of circulation. I figured I was sparing the man one more indignity.

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