![]() ![]() Cramer captures plenty of behind-the-scenes drama while delivering in-depth portraits of Biden and five other candidates as human beings, not just candidates: Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, who became the Democratic nominee George Bush, who beat Dukakis to become president Bob Dole Gary Hart and Dick Gephardt.Ĭertain parallels between Biden Then and Biden Now jump out from the book’s pages. I really wish he had been able to see tonight.”įirst published in 1992 and written in a style that decidedly reflects the influence of Tom Wolfe, “What It Takes” nonetheless pulses with a life of its own. His affection for Biden, for the man’s decency and unstoppable Joe-ness, is palpable in “What It Takes.” On Saturday, Cramer’s daughter, Ruby Cramer, tweeted: “Thinking always but especially tonight about my dad, Richard Ben Cramer, who wrote more beautifully about Joe Biden, the candidate and the man, than anyone has or will. ![]() ![]() Biden needed, always, to feel that connect it “fed his own engine.” And the crowd? “They loved how Joey made them feel,” Cramer writes.Ĭramer died in 2013. ![]()
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