A tabloid fired several bullets into the air, and the rest of the herd began to stampede.” “We’re still in the ditch,” he claims, “and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. Asked if the press has improved its performance, Cramer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, says it’s gone from bad to worse. The question is no less relevant in 1992. I’m just an old storyteller, and I always wanted to know, what the hell were these candidates really like? “ “The press and the political process demeaned all of these guys four years ago by turning them into empty suits on our television screens,” he says. Cramer says the public never got to see them as human beings and thus missed out on the real drama of the 1988 race. Bob Dole as a nasty, brooding presence, they’ll discover a decent, generous man whose presidential campaign was shipwrecked by his free-spending advisers.Īt a time of mounting hostility toward Washington, some may wonder if readers are ready for a book that celebrates, rather than eviscerates, politicians, let alone a bunch who ran four years ago. Cramer portrays a thoughtful, intensely private man who wanted to run on the issues but was destroyed by the press. Forget the image of Gary Hart as a skirt-chaser and national joke.
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