# What It Takes

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- Book: [What It Takes](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-ben-cramer/what-it-takes) ([What It Takes.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-ben-cramer/what-it-takes.md))
- Authors: [Richard Ben Cramer](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-ben-cramer)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7974-649-2
- Pages: 1072
- Published: 1993-06-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

" Quite possibly the finest book on presidential politics ever written, combining meticulous reporting and compelling, at times soaringly lyrical, prose." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer An American Iliad in...