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'What It Takes' Author Remembered As An Engrossing Figure

by David Folkenflik, NPR
January 8, 2013

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer has died. He covered politics and the Middle East for The Baltimore Sun and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Cramer wrote the book What It Takes, about the 1988 presidential campaign and one of the defining treatments of American presidential politics.

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  • All Things Considered, January 8, 2013
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