Review: What it Takes

What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This book has been on my shelf for years, but I was waiting for the perfect moment. My plan was to tackle it during the summer of a presidential election, to fully appreciate the book’s insights. But COVID prevented me from coming home during the last race, and so the book languished until the next election.

And here we are. When I read the first page of this book, Biden was still the presumptive Democratic nomi...