Full name: What It Takes: The Way to the White House

Author: Richard Ben Cramer Year: 1992 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, History, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780679746492 0679746498

A masterpiece of political reportage that exposes the emotional reality of the modern American campaign system Pulitzer Prize'€“winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer cracks open the heart of the American political system in this classic exploration of the 1988 presidential campaign. Cramer delves into the personal, intimate lives of the key candidates, including George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, Joe Biden, and Michael Dukakis, as he seeks to understand the drives, passions, egos, and failings that transform an individual into a president. Exhaustively researched from thousands of hours of interviews, What It Takes creates powerful portraits of the men who would be president, and how the campaign for the highest office transforms them. Similar books: Rogue States by Noam Chomsky Our Divided Political Heart by E. J. Dionne Jr. Right Is Wrong by Arianna Huffington The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Frank Rich Worse than Watergate by John W. Dean Doctrines and Visions by Noam Chomsky See, I Told You So by Rush Limbaugh Conservative Victory by Sean Hannity How to Overthrow the Government by Arianna Huffington Crashing the Party by Ralph Nader Great American Hypocrites by Glenn Greenwald Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank High Crimes and Misdemeanors by Ann Coulter The Hunting of the President by Joe Conason 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America by Bernard Goldberg Living My Life, Vol. 1 by Emma Goldman Angler by Barton Gellman The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind Days of Fire by Peter Baker Rendezvous with Destiny by Craig Shirley