The latter comes across as particularly rich, with his distinctive third-person speaking style and tossed-off “Aghs,” all rendered with Cramer’s painterly eye. Bush, Michael Dukakis, Joe Biden and particularly Bob Dole. The book contains astute and sympathetic profiles of George H.W. It’s fueled by Cramer’s determination to find out just exactly why people are crazy enough to run the obstacle course in pursuit of the nation’s highest office. “What It Takes” reads like Tom Wolfe on speed, like Theodore H. “I was this new kid on the block, and he’d been around and knew Maryland politics very well, and he was smart and a brilliant writer – and kind to a new reporter on the beat,” she said.Ĭramer put all his fury, emotion and eye for detail on the page in such works as “Joe DiMaggio: A Hero’s Life” (2000), “How Israel Lost” (2004) and especially “What It Takes,” a 1,047-page account of the 1988 presidential race. Cramer, then with The (Baltimore) Sun, took her under his wing. She was a cub reporter for the old Washington Star when she was assigned to the Maryland statehouse beat. Biden and Cramer became friendly when the author was working on “What It Takes.”ĬNN senior political analyst Gloria Borger, echoing many, attests to his generosity. I will miss him,” said Vice President Joe Biden in a statement. “He was an unmatched talent who set an enormously high bar for political journalism.
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