What It Takes: The Way to the White House
An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the...
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An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race -- and scours the psyches of contenders from George Bush and Robert Dole to Michael Dukakis and Gary Hart -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer comes up with the answers, in a book that is vast, exhaustively researched, exhilarating, and sometimes appalling in its revelations.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679746492 (0679746498)
Publish date: June 1st 1993
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 1072
Edition language: English
This morning I opened Facebook to see one of my friends had posted this: Now I get why he would post something like this. Joe Biden was a popular vice president (I suspect all of those Onion memes had a lot to do with this) whose candidacy would appeal to many of those white working-class voter...
A magnificent, mammoth book of the 1988 presidential election that is as exhausting as it feels exhaustive. Following two of the race's Republicans (Bush and Dole) and four of its Democrats (Biden, Dukakis, Hart, and Gephardt), Cramer's book moves like a living beast from elections and events both ...
This is one of the two best books ever writen about the US presidential campaign, and the finest book on politicians ever made. Don't confuse that thin gruel produced by pundits & reporters today with what's possible; this book shows how inane that self-important snot Mark Halperin is, how thuddin...
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