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Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
by Richard Ben Cramer
Cramer's unsparing portrait: the grace on the field, the coldness off it, Marilyn, the money. A great biography of a guarded man.
Read it if…
you want the complicated truth about an American icon.
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Skip it if…
you want to keep the legend.
Try instead: Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero →
Three things you will actually use
- Image has costs.
- Greatness and warmth are separate.
- Look behind the hero.
Do this first
Read the chapters on the streak.
Our verdict
DiMaggio.
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