![]() ![]() Richard cared far more about the people he wrote about than about party or policy. ![]() He had a beard and a gravely voice and wore absurd, baggy gardening pants he lived in a big house on Maryland's Eastern Shore that Joe Biden had helped him select. Richard was a character as large as the politicians and ballplayers he wrote about or at least, as large as he made those men, some of them superficially fairly dull, seem - once he had climbed into their heads and learned to speak their voices. The writer Richard Ben Cramer, who died Monday at the age of 62 at Johns Hopkins, wrote one of the very few enduring books about presidential politics, "What It Takes." Published during the 1992 campaign, far too late, the book sank like a stone (in his recollection at least), only to rise slowly until it became a model and a talisman for a new generation of political writers. ![]()
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