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Laddar... Joe DiMaggio : The Hero's Life (urspr publ 2000; utgåvan 2001)av Richard Ben Cramer (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Not a very flattering account of the man. I didn't know much about Joe D. before reading the book. No reason to think the author's account is inaccurate, and it makes me wonder why Joe D. was such a jerk. Hard to get through mostly because I really didn't like the person I was reading about. ( ) I am of two minds about this book. It is definitely readable and informative about the contexts in which DiMaggio lived. But, there are some real problems with the new-journalistic liberties Cramer takes. For instance, again and again throughout the book we get interior passages from DiMaggio, who didn't cooperate with Cramer. In fact he was actively hostile, urging his close associates to not speak with Cramer either. So where does this interiority come from? From Cramer's imagination largely. And that's an imagination that is very, very hostile to Joe DiMaggio. Who on balance *does* seem like a very strange cat. But we seldom get very much insight into him except in the Marilyn Monroe section where Cramer does have indirect access to the thoughts of a DiMaggio intimate (Monroe). Cramer manages to remind us how interesting the social phenomenon called DiMaggio was. He gets some good answers as to what the DiMaggio myth meant to us. He gets very few as to who the man really was. This far, he has done well given the circumstances. To the extent he pretends to more than this, he really loses credit as a journalist and a biographer. I highly recommend WIlfrid Sheed's NYT review (linked to on this page) 3488. Joe DiMaggio A Hero's Life, by Richard Ben Cramer (read Sept 25, 2001) This is a gossipy, warts and all biography, and since I was always against the Yankees I did not mind at all the depiction of DiMaggio as a thoroughly despicable human being, albeit a fantastic player. The book has no footnotes, and its note on sources basically gives only names, without attributing anything in the book to any specific name. I am not sorry I read the book, but it is not a very worthwhile book.
So in ''Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life,'' Cramer is faced with the daunting task of reading the mind of a man totally unlike himself or any of us, and he decides to wade right in, starting his book with a bravura feat of ESP in re DiMaggio's last, dying appearance at Yankee Stadium in 1998, which, it turns out, was chiefly about ''money, mostly money, as it mostly was with Joe. . . . The fact was, DiMaggio was never wistful. (At that moment, he was furious.) And he never spent an instant in his life to marvel at the beauty of anything. Except maybe a broad.'' The fact was? Never? Obviously, clairvoyance is not going to be a problem for this author. But there's also a twin problem of seeing Joe's world exactly as he saw it, and this may be even tougher, because it requires leaping over several generation gaps and landing on one's feet. PriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
This is the life story of Joe DiMaggio, including his first game with the New York Yankees in the 1930s, his marriage to Marilyn Monroe & his rise to hero status. Richard Ben Cramer tells of the ways in which fame can both build & destroy. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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