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What It Takes, June 1993
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WHAT IT TAKES
By: Richard Ben Cramer

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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