Richard Ben Cramer
All Books By Richard Ben Cramer
Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life
- By: Richard Ben Cramer
- Narrator: Richard Ben Cramer
- Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2000
- Language: English
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3.96(3469 ratings)
In the hard-knuckled thirties, Joe DiMaggio was the immigrant boy who made it big. He was the dominant star in the New York Yankees dynasty. As World War II loomed, Joltin’ Joe launched a fifty-six game hitting streak — and the nation literally sang his name. In the age of postwar ease and plenty, he became Broadway Joe, the icon of elegance and class — marrying Marilyn Monroe, the most beautiful girl in America.
In 1962, when he lost that girl for good, Joe was everyman embarking on a decade of national bereavement. Joe DiMaggio was a mirror of our best self, but he was also the loneliest hero we ever had. A nation of fans would give him anything, but what he wanted most was to hide the life he chose.
In this groundbreaking biography, Richard Ben Cramer presents a stunning, often shocking portrait of the hero nobody knew. It is a story that sweeps through the twentieth century, bringing to light America’s national game, movie stars, mobsters, as well as the birth — and the price — of modern national celebrity.
This is the story Joe DiMaggio never wanted to tell. It is the story of his grace and greed, his dignity, pride and his hidden shame.
What It Takes
- By: Richard Ben Cramer
- Length: 54 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish date: March 31, 2020
- Language: English
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4.4(2800 ratings)
An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race-and scours the psyches of contenders from George Bush and Robert Dole to Michael Dukakis and Gary Hart-Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer comes up with the answers, in a book that is vast, exhaustively researched, exhilarating, and sometimes appalling in its revelations.
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