Overlearning the lessons of Gary Hart

The visionary former Colorado Senator whose bid for the presidency was derailed in 1987 wasn’t so much an early political casualty of celebrity journalism as he was an early content provider.

Former Democratic Senator Gary Hart’s imploding campaign for the 1988 U.S. presidency is the subject of the new movie The Front Runner. He’s pictured in 1987 speaking at Cornell University. Photograph courtesy of Kenneth C. Zirkel

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

November 28, 2018

The first thing that you understand about Gary Hart while watching the newly released film The Front Runner is the staggering magnitude of his ignorance of the degree to which journalists love wielding the term “aptly named,” especially when it comes with a dash of irony. That a poli...

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