Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
by Richard Ben Cramer
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0684853914
- ISBN 13
- 9780684853918
- Seller
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About This Item
NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a stunning feat of meticulous reportage, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ben Cramer ultimately puts to rest the "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" question with iconoclastic bravura. In Cramer's evaluation, the hero America held onto so desperately for so long was really a creation of a nation's communal imagination. The Joe DiMaggio that America tried so hard to believe in was never really here at all. There was, of course, a Joe DiMaggio, and he had a splendid career in Yankee pinstripes--once hitting safely in an unimaginable 56 consecutive games--and a troubled marriage with Marilyn Monroe, each augmenting the other in our national mythology. But myths tend to be skin-deep, and Cramer's biography thrives in an internal geography well below the surface. The map he charts is of a cold, small, often nasty, uncaring, resentful, self-centered man, a man of public grace and private misery who broke friendships, shunned family, and chased money with the same focused energies he once harnessed to run down fly balls. Record # 379253
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 379253
- Title
- Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
- Author
- Richard Ben Cramer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0684853914
- ISBN 13
- 9780684853918
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Sports, Baseball, , .
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