You can say you're going to take a vacation, and you can even take the time, but you might as well not, because the book is still sitting in your head.

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• Richard Ben Cramer:

  Certainly no man could be such an irredeemable 'schlub' as the American press portrays its losers.

• Richard Ben Cramer:

  This book-promotion stuff is like a political campaign. You work your butt off, and at the end of t

• Richard Ben Cramer:

  I'm just an old storyteller, and I always wanted to know, what the hell were these candidates reall

• Richard Ben Cramer:

  We're still in the ditch, and the Gennifer Flowers story about Bill Clinton says it all. A tabloid

• Richard Ben Cramer:

  I used to think that the image of the press in the 1940s - a bunch of guys in hats screaming on the

• Richard Ben Cramer:

  We strove for more than 60 years to give Joe DiMaggio the hero's life. From his debut at Yankee Sta

• Richard Ben Cramer:

  People feel overloaded, that politics has become kind of a public utility: hot- and cold-running po

• Richard Ben Cramer:

  The whole point of Israel was to create a place where Jews could live the best life - and liveliest

• Richard Ben Cramer:

  Losing the presidency is not like losing any other office. More than any other office, it's a vote

• Richard Ben Cramer:

  After the presidency, there's nowhere else to go in politics.