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What It Takes
- Author
- Richard Ben Cramer
- Narrator
- Keith Sellon-Wright
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 31 March 2020
- Run Time
- 54 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Richard Ben Cramer
- Narrator
- Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duration
- 54 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 March 2020
- ISBN
- 9781541438927
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Politics and government, Central / national / federal government, Elections and referenda, Political campaigning and advertising, Political structure and processes
Synopsis
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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