What It Takes: The Way to the White House

What It Takes: The Way to the White House

1992 • 1,072 pages

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Average rating4.5

15

Sigh. After reading this book on and off for four months, I'm finally conceding, with 58% of the book finished. It really is quite well-researched, the back stories for each of the six candidates featured from the 1988 primaries (Bush Sr., Dole, Hart, Dukakis, Gephardt and Biden) are entertaining, and all the various scandals that befell them all were juicy election gossip, but it just got to be too long and too much. I probably picked a bad time to start it too, and I got too burnt out on politics. It's really a shame because I liked what I read of this one overall, but I think I just have to admit that I'm probably not going to pick it up again.