
What It Takes
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Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times-bestselling author Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes is "a perfect-pitch rendering of the emotions, the intensity, the anguish, and the emptiness of what may have been the last normal two-party campaign in American history" ( Time).
An up-close, in-depth look at six candidates-George H. W. "Poppy" Bush, Bob Dole, Joe Biden, Michael Dukakis, Richard Gephardt, and Gary Hart-this account of the 1988 US presidential campaign explores a unique moment in history, with details on everything from Bush at the Astrodome to Hart's Donna Rice scandal. Cramer also addresses the question we find ourselves pondering every four years: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that allows them to throw their hat in the ring as a candidate for leadership of the free world?
Exhaustively researched from thousands of hours of interviews, What It Takes creates powerful portraits of these Republican and Democratic contenders, and the consultants, donors, journalists, handlers, and hangers-on who surround them, as they meet, greet, and strategize their way through primary season chasing the nomination, resulting in "a hipped-up amalgam of Teddy White, Tom Wolfe, and Norman Mailer" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review).
With timeless insight that helps us understand the current state of the nation, this "ultimate insider's book on presidential politics" explores what helps these people survive, what makes them prosper, what drives them, and ultimately, what drives our government-human beings, in all their flawed glory ( San Francisco Chronicle).
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Content
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author's Note
- BOOK I
- 1 The Price of Being Poppy
- 2 The Other Thing
- 3 Flyin' Around
- 4 1944
- 5 1945
- 6 To Know
- 7 1947
- 8 1948
- 9 God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
- BOOK II
- 10 Right from the Start
- 11 Don't Tell Michael
- 12 Stelian
- 13 1951
- 14 The Diddybop Bostons
- 15 1952
- 16 1953
- 17 The Night of the Bronco
- 18 They Expect to Be Cold
- 19 1954
- 20 1955
- 21 Like They Always Did
- 22 Gary and Oletha
- 23 Family Values
- 24 1960
- 25 The Tinsel and the Tree
- 26 The Steaming Bouillabaisse
- 27 1961
- 28 No Choice, Mike
- 29 1964
- 30 1965
- 31 Saturday Night
- 32 Bill and Gary and Lynn and Donna
- 33 Saturday Night II
- 34 Sunday
- 35 Monday
- 36 Tuesday
- 37 Wednesday
- BOOK III
- 38 Pukin' in the Basket
- 39 Excessive Consultitis
- 40 Leadership!
- 41 The River of Power
- 42 Error-Free Ball
- 43 The Age of Dukakis
- 44 Their Kinda Guy
- 45 Shit Happens
- 46 There's This Couple in Bed ...
- 47 A Platform upon Which to Stand
- 48 Six-Seven-One
- 49 The Secret Weapon
- 50 The Badge of the Big Gee
- 51 A Weanling Woodlouse
- 52 White Men at Play
- 53 Into the Death-Star
- 54 1968
- 55 1970
- 56 1972
- 57 Phyllis
- 58 1973
- 59 The Cavalcade of Stars
- 60 The Big Guy
- 61 What Sasso Loved
- 62 Destiny
- 63 What Perfect Was
- 64 Where Do They Stop?
- 65 Just, Why?
- 66 That Is the Process
- 67 Biden's Waterloo?
- 68 Missss-ter Eagle Scout!
- 69 Matt
- 70 Happy to Be Alive
- 71 1974
- 72 Betrayed
- 73 Dr. Dukakis
- 74 Wilting from the Heat
- 75 Old Friends
- 76 Apology Weekend
- 77 It's Hard to Smile
- 78 Jill
- 79 One of the Great Sins
- 80 I Am a Man
- 81 It All Began in Russell!
- 82 No Future at All
- 83 A Fight for His Life
- 84 1975
- 85 1976
- 86 Vision Music
- 87 What Else?
- 88 Bambi
- 89 God Is Doing It
- 90 Roll Up the Net
- 91 Gorby Juice
- 92 Like Old Times
- 93 Serious About the Business
- 94 Out of the Monkey Suit
- 95 Who Would Have Thought?
- 96 1978
- 97 Sasso
- 98 A Cornered Marmot
- 99 Hollywooood!
- 100 President Dick
- 101 Time's Up!
- 102 Thermonuclear
- 103 Into the Bubble
- 104 Ucch, God ... Their Life Was Over
- 105 Juice
- 106 We Won the Bronze
- 107 President Bobster
- 108 White Men at War
- 109 Believe Me, Bob
- 110 Doing Damage
- 111 Sandbagged
- 112 What Joe Biden Knew
- 113 Dangerous Magic
- 114 Lobster Salad
- 115 The Plane from Hell
- 116 Back to the Bible
- 117 The White Lightning Curve
- 118 The Alamo
- 119 Tough Night
- 120 That Slow-Motion Horror
- 121 The Secret Plan
- 122 Jesseee!
- 123 The Priesthood Is Obeyed
- 124 1982
- 125 The Big Enchilada
- 126 Mercury in Retrograde
- 127 Science at Kennebunkport
- 128 Monos Mou
- 129 I'll Take Care of This Guy
- 130 The Mission
- EPILOGUE
- Afterword
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