Question: The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down is a 2010 tell-all book, chronicling over a decade working behind the scenes with former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate John Edwards, which American actress and film producer, did he have an extramarital affair with?

Context articles: John Edwards presidential campaign, 2008
The Politician (book)
The Rachel Maddow Show (radio program)
Two Americas
Deborah Axelrod
Game Change
Four Trials
Rielle Hunter
Andrew Young (political operative)
John Edwards extramarital affair

The 2008 presidential campaign of John Edwards, former United States Senator from North Carolina and Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004 began on December 28, 2006 when he announced his entry into the 2008 Presidential election in the city of New Orleans near sites devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
 On January 30, 2008, Edwards returned to New Orleans to announce that he was suspending his campaign for the Presidency.
 On May 14, 2008, he endorsed Barack Obama at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The Politician: An Insider's Account of John Edwards's Pursuit of the Presidency and the Scandal That Brought Him Down is a 2010 tell-all book by Andrew Young chronicling over a decade working behind the scenes with former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate John Edwards.
 The book reveals details of the extramarital affair Edwards had with Rielle Hunter while his wife was battling cancer.
 The book also covers the subsequent cover up of Edwards' affair and the child it produced.
 The book also details Edwards' asking Young to go into hiding with Hunter, in part because of his wife's health.
 Young goes in depth detailing Edwards' obsession with campaign donations, his fixating on his hair, his loathing of "fat rednecks" at state fairs, and the lengths he went to hide the affair.
 Edwards, according to Young, went as far as to ask him to claim paternity of the child.
 Young said he asked him to steal a diaper for a paternity test, and find a doctor to fake the results of a paternity test.
The Rachel Maddow Show was a weekday radio show on the Air America Radio network hosted by Rachel Maddow.
 The show featured news items read by Maddow and her commentary on each of them as well as interview segments with politicians, newsmakers and pundits.
 Guests included presidential candidate John Edwards, author Eric Alterman, reporters from "The Nation" magazine and commentators from The Center for American Progress.
 Beginning September 8, 2008, she also debuted a TV version of the show on MSNBC of the same name with different content.
 Early in 2009 the show was moved to the 5AM timeslot and consisted almost entirely of the audio from the previous nights MSNBC broadcast of Maddow's television show.
 On January 21, 2010, Air America Radio ceased programming citing economic difficulties.
Two Americas is a catch phrase referring to social stratification in American society, made famous in a 2004 speech by former U.S. Senator and former presidential candidate John Edwards, originally referring to haves and have-nots.
 The speech has since become popular and inspired many parodies and similar metaphors.
Deborah M. Axelrod is an American surgeon who specializes in breast cancer and who is notable for being an acclaimed expert in the field.
 She has made frequent appearances on television shows including the Larry King Live, the Dr. Oz show, the Martha Stewart show, as well as news programs such as "CBS News".
 When the wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, was diagnosed with breast cancer, Axelrod's views were broadcast.
 She serves as medical director of the Clinical Breast Services unit of New York University.
 She has published numerous studies on the subject.
 She co–authored "Bosom Buddies", a guide for women afflicted with breast cancer.
Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime is a book by political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin about the 2008 United States presidential election.
 Released on January 11, 2010, it was also published in the United Kingdom under the title Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House.
 The book is based on interviews with more than 300 people involved in the campaign.
 It discusses factors including Democratic Party presidential candidate John Edwards' extramarital affair, the relationship between Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and his vice presidential running mate Joe Biden, the failure of Republican Party candidate Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign and Sarah Palin's vice presidential candidacy.
Four Trials is a book by former U.S. Senator John Edwards of North Carolina and his co-writer, John Auchard.
 The book was published by Simon & Schuster in December 2003, before Edwards unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic Party presidential nomination and, later, vice president on the Democratic Party ticket with fellow Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts in the 2004 presidential election.
Rielle Hunter (born Lisa Jo Druck on March 20, 1964, also known as Lisa Hunter, Lisa Jo Hunter, and Rielle Jaya James Druck) is an American actress and film producer.
 She is known for having had an affair and conceiving a child with 2004 Democratic Party vice-presidential nominee John Edwards.
 She is said to be the basis of a character in a Jay McInerney novel and she was an early adopter of YouTube as a means of distributing political viral marketing.
 Her father was implicated in a horse insurance fraud scandal, which involved the intentional killing of her horse when she was a teenager.
Andrew Aldridge Young (born March 23, 1966) was a key staff member in the John Edwards 2008 presidential campaign, and is noted as the author of political biographical writing.
 Young came to prominence via a scandal in which he claimed paternity of Rielle Hunter's child born on February 27, 2008.
 John Edwards had admitted a past affair with Hunter, but denied paternity of the baby even though Edwards was in fact the father.
 Young has since renounced that statement, and Edwards publicly admitted paternity on January 21, 2010.
John Edwards is a former United States Senator from North Carolina and a Democratic Party vice-presidential and presidential candidate who admitted to an extramarital affair in August 2008.
 The affair was initially reported in late-2007 by "The National Enquirer" (a U.S. supermarket tabloid newspaper), but was given little attention outside the tabloid press and political blogosphere.
 The "Enquirer" cited claims from an anonymous source that Edwards had engaged in an affair with Rielle Hunter, a filmmaker hired to work for his presidential campaign, and that Hunter had a child from the relationship.
 ABC News reported that Andrew Young, a member of Edwards' campaign team, stated that Edwards asked him to "Get a doctor to fake the DNA results ... and to steal a diaper from the baby so he could secretly do a DNA test to find out if this [was] indeed his child."