What It Takes in Bush Politics, and the Middle East- August 31, 2004 &160;&160;&160;&160; Listen up. It&8217;s not for the squeamish, this business of looking closely at the Bush family definition of &8220;what it takes&8221; to succeed in politics. &8220;You know, the family is ferocious from start to finish,&8221; says my foremost living authority. Richard Ben Cramer is the author of the classic What It Takes about the ...http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydondev/2004/08/31/what-it-takes-in-bush-politics-and-the-mi... Dem Bones, Dem Bones and The Magic of Yale- August 30, 2004 &160;&160;&160;&160; Listen up: The conversations here are with William F. Buckley and Ron Rosenbaum&8211;the first trying stylishly to obscure, the second earnestly to decipher, the strangest, almost unmentionable development in our politics: that the presidential campaign rivals George Walker Bush and John Forbes Kerry were each and both inducted, two years apart, into the most ...http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydondev/2004/08/30/dem-bones-dem-bones-and-the-magic-of-yale... Mailer Time- August 30, 2004 The literature of our party conventions is not Mencken. It&8217;s Mailer. Starting with his still-breathtaking Esquire account of the 1960 Democratic convention that nominated John F. Kennedy in Los Angeles (Superman Comes to the Supermarket), Norman Mailer&8217;s is an astonishing record of observation, invective, prophecy and lyricism&8211;something of each mixed all together in one ...http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydondev/2004/08/30/mailer-time/ |