Richard Ben Cramer was an American journalist and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1979 for his coverage of the Middle East. His work as a political reporter culminated in What It Takes: The Way to the White House, an account of the 1988 presidential election that is considered one of the seminal journalistic studies of presidential electoral politics.
Books in order of publication:
Ted Williams: The Seasons of the Kid (1991)
What It Takes: The Way to the White House (1992)
Bob Dole (1994)
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life (2000)
What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now? A Remembrance (2002)
How Israel Lost: The Four Questions (2004)
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