When Richard Ben Cramer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of WHAT IT TAKES (1992), the influential 1988 presidential campaign chronicle, died January 7 from complications of lung cancer only days after being diagnosed with the illness, he had just been served by a lawsuit from his onetime publisher, Hachette Book Group’s Twelve imprint, for failing to deliver a manuscript on now-disgraced New York Yankees baseball player Alex Rodriguez. At the time of Cramer’s death, a spokesperson for Hachette told us “we were very surprised to hear of Mr. Cramer’s illness. We had been trying to contact him for well […]