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

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      First published as All the Truth Is Out in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2014

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      © Matt Bai 2014

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      Motion Picture Artwork (cover) © 2018 CTMG. All Rights Reserved

      Author photograph © Robyn Twomey

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      Source ISBN: 9780008333218

      Ebook Edition © December 2018 ISBN: 9780008333225

      Version 2018-12-13

DEDICATION

       For Ellen

EPIGRAPH

      Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.

      —F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

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

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

PREFACE

       WHAT IT TOOK

      ONE OF THE FIRST PEOPLE I CALLED after I decided to write this book in 2009 was Richard Ben Cramer. This was not a call I made lightly. I had, by this time, been writing about politics for The New York Times Magazine for the better part of a decade, so I was not exactly a journalistic unknown. But Richard was in a different category altogether. He was one of the greatest nonfiction writers of this or any age, and his seminal, 1,047-page chronicle of the 1988 presidential campaign—What It Takes: The Way to the White House—was arguably the greatest and most ambitious work of political journalism in American history.

      We had talked by phone in the past, and I had written about him once, but never before had I sought his counsel. I feared finding out that one of my literary heroes was just another dismissive egoist—the business is full of them—who didn’t have time to dole out advice.

      About thirty seconds into the conversation, Richard invited me to lunch at the old farmhouse he shared with his girlfriend (and later wife), Joan, on Maryland’s idyllic Eastern Shore. Anytime I liked, he said, just pick a day, he wasn’t doing much other than writing. The grace of that invitation wouldn’t have surprised anyone СКАЧАТЬ