Richard Ben Cramer was an American journalist and writer. Cramer worked as a journalist at several well-known publications, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, Esquire Magazine, and Rolling Stone. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1979 for his coverage of the Middle East. His work as a political reporter culminated in *What It Takes: The Way to the White House*, an account of the 1988 presidential election that is considered one of the seminal journalistic studies of presidential electoral politics. His book, *Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life* was a New York Times bestseller in 2000. - Wikipedia
