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The Way to the White House
Vintage
June 1993
On Sale: June 1, 1993
1072 pages ISBN: 0679746498 EAN: 9780679746492 Paperback
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Non-Fiction Political
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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