Joe Biden, stutterer, the toughest kid in school somehow now a US senator, climbing into an abandoned DuPont mansion, claiming it for his own, and pouring money into it until friends think he is mad. Cramer's images are indelible: Shy, thoughtful Gary Hart, who soon will be destroyed by the press, noticing things that others do not (``The Soviet Union is rotting from within,'' he's quoted as saying ``.the Cold War rules do not have to apply''). The author's candidates are tough and clever, driven to a life so complicated by power that ordinary behavior is impossible-as when George Bush, ever eager to please (his intelligence ``a silken windsock.so responsive to the currents''), tries to throw a baseball while wearing a bulletproof vest even as his son, bumped from the presidential box by an aide, throws a tantrum. Irreverent, highly knowledgeable look at the 1988 presidential primaries by Pulitzer-winning journalist Cramer.
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