by Richard Ben Cramer
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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