Richard Ben Cramer on William Donald Schaefer

Now that all the Schaefer hoopla has subsided, it's a good time to check out the Schaefer profile Richard Ben Cramer wrote for Esquire in 1984. It's been posted on Esquire's politics blog, and as profiles go, it's right up there with Cramer's definitive Ted Williams piece. The article's deck sets the perfect tone—"William Donald Schaefer is committed to saving one glorious, goddam thing: Baltimore."