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What It Takes: The Way to the White House

of Richard Ben Cramer

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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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Nonfiction Politics Nonfiction History Biography American History Presidents Political Science Journalism American The United States Of America

Main Characters

Michael Dukakis Dick Gephardt Gary Hart Joe Biden Bob Dole George H. W. Bush

Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 1072 pages
  • Publisher Vintage
  • Publication Date June 1st 1993
  • First Publication 06/23/92
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780679746492
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category Other
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