Recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race, exploring how presumably normal people acquire the courage, ambition, and shamelessness that make a true candidate.
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Explores the lives of the candidates who ran for president in 1988 and tries to discover what convinced them they could lead the United States.
Recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race, exploring how presumably normal people acquire the courage, ambition, and shamelessness that make a true candidate.
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? A…
Once in a great while, a book comes along that not only discusses a topic of interest, it changes the boundaries of that discussion forever. This is such a book. In How Israel Lost Richard Ben Cramer analyzes the four questions that have bedeviled Israel and Palestine for almost…
This title is a study how of the once-triumphant country of Israel has failed in the eyes of the world. Richard Cramer gets to the core of what is troubling so many Westerners about Israel: the contradiction between its humanistic foundation and its harsh treatment of the Palest…
[This book] comes along that not only discusses a topic of interest, it changes the boundaries of that discussion forever. [In the book, the author] analyzes the four questions that have bedeviled Israel and Palestine for almost forty years: Why Do We Care About Israel? ... Why …