Ben cramer what it takes5/19/2023 ![]() With the book due off the presses in barely a month, the epilogue remained unfinished. Now editors at Random House were editing like a daily newspaper, a chunk at a time, sending proofs down to Cramer's rented waterfront house in Cambridge, Maryland, for Cramer and his wife to read even as Cramer tried to write the next installment. The book was supposed to have been published a year before. Who would want to read it? It would be ancient history.Īt this point, the manuscript was 18 months late. If it didn't come out before the fall election, forget it. This was last April, and Cramer's book in progress, What It Takes: The Way to the White House, was about the candidates in the 1988 presidential campaign. ![]() It was D-Day, it was get-the-book-to-the-publisher-or-this-all-becomes-an-academic-exercise day, and Richard Ben Cramer was still on the phone. Editor's note: This profile of Richard Ben Cramer '71 was originally published by Johns Hopkins Magazine in November of 1992, the same year that What It Takes: The Way to the White House was released.įinally, after six years and thousands of interviews, it had come down to one last phone call. ![]()
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