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Original Title:	What It Takes
ISBN:	0679746498 (ISBN13: 9780679746492)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Michael Dukakis, Dick Gephardt, Gary Hart, Joe Biden, Bob Dole, George H. W. Bush

What It Takes: The Way to the White House Paperback | Pages: 1072 pages

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Title	:	What It Takes: The Way to the White House
Author	:	Richard Ben Cramer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1072 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1993 by Vintage (first published June 23rd 1992)
Categories	:	Politics. Nonfiction. History. Biography. North American Hi.... American History. Presidents. Political Science

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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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"What it Takes" is the GOLD STANDARD for presidential political reporting. 5 stars. Richard Ben Cramer had unbelievable (by today's standards) access to six presidential candidates for the 1988 election: George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, Dick Gephardt, Gary Hart, Michael Dukakis and Joe Biden. This tome, which clocks in at 1,047 pages took over two years to write! But as all political junkies know, THIS is the book that all other campaign books are measured against. Printed in about 9 point font with

"This is about as good as it gets, as close as American politics offers to a mortal lock. On this night, October 8, 1986, the Vice President is coming to the Astrodome, to Game One of the National League Championship Series, and the nation will be watching from its La-Z-Boys as George Bush stands front and center, glistening with America's holy water: play-off juice. Oh, and here's the beauty part: he doesn't have to say a thing! He's just got to throw out the first ball. He'll be hosted by the

A commitment (over 1000 pages!) that is well rewarded. I don't know what Cramer's book has to say about our political era which seems so much more mean and angry than they one he wrote about in 1988, but I do know if you care about American history or American politics you must read this book at some point in your adult life. It's that brilliantly written. (and reported)On a sadder note, Richard died just yesterday. He was a giant in my eyes. A man who change the room just by walking into it. I

Is there such a thing as being too definitive?The late Richard Ben Cramer's titanic deep dive into the 1987-88 presidential primary season is rightly regarded as the last word on the crazy-making rigors of electoral politics in this country. Hard to argue: books like Game Change, and similar attempts to go behind the scenes with the insiders, are but superficial imitators to the throne in comparison.The level of commitment from Cramer is awe-inspiring, likely rivaled only by Robert A. Caro's

At some point in the past couple of months, I developed a troubling fixation on the question: which state do I think about the least? Another slightly more unsettling way of asking this: which state, if it suddenly ceased to exist, would I be least likely to even notice was gone? Ive gotten a variety of answers to this question, from Wyoming to Iowa to Delaware (this from a New Jersey native) to West Virginia to Nebraska to either of the Dakotas, but none of these answers seem to be exactly

This book sustained my interest and really humanized the candidates. It follows a presidential election I lived through in high school, so my personal memories fell into some of the events. It does leave the reader wondering what kind of idealism is required to live the life of a candidate - and who has that much idealism that can withstand the cynical press and the petty judgements of the mob?

Like running for president, it takes a lot to plow through this massive tome about running for president. I shared some of my fellow reviewers' apprehensions about tackling this 1000+ page epic but found it well worth the effort. The prose is lively, very enjoyable, and sails by at a very brisk pace.Cramer is up front about the biggest piece missing from this book: Jesse Jackson. The absence of both Jackson and Pat Robertson from the narrative are huge gaps in the story of 1988, especially since