Richard Ben Cramer's WHAT IT TAKES remains one of the greatest volumes about American politics ever written. You might even call Cramer's work a litmus test or sort. Because only the worst and least brightest critical practitioners -- people like Jonathan Yardley and Maureen Dowd -- have gone out of their way to condemn Cramer. This s probably because these two fools have neither talent nor original voices of their own.

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