What It Takes: The Way to the White House — How Campaigns Shape Candidates
What does a presidential campaign reveal about a candidate—and what does the process itself change?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using What It Takes: The Way to the White House by Richard Ben Cramer as our lens, this episode examines the 1988 presidential campaign through George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, Gary Hart, Dick Gephardt, Joe Biden, and Michael Dukakis.
Cramer’s investigation moves beyond campaign tactics toward the people undertaking the quest itself: the ambition, discipline, self-belief, endurance, and personal histories that make…
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