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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. "From the Trade Paperback edition.
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What it Takes, Richard Ben Cramer
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1992
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- Titel
- What it Takes
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Richard Ben Cramer
- Verlag
- Random House
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1992
- Einband
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0394562607
- ISBN13
- 9780394562605
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Sozialwissenschaften, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Politikwissenschaft, Politik, Journalismus, Politikerbiografien, Geschichte der USA, Präsidenten
- Bewertung
- 4,55 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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. "From the Trade Paperback edition.