The DiMaggios

Author: Tom Clavin
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062183796
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
In The DiMaggios, acclaimed sportswriter Tom Clavin reveals the untold Great American Story of three brothers, Joltin’ Joe, Dom, and Vince DiMaggio, and the Great American Game—baseball—that would consume their lives. A vivid portrait of a family and the ways in which their shifting fortunes and status shaped their relationships, The DiMaggios is a exploration of an era and a culture. This comprehensive biography that recalls the work of Jane Leavy offers a trove of insight into one of the game’s greatest players and his family, sure to be treasured by Yankees fans, Red Sox Fans, and baseball aficionados around the world.

Joe DiMaggio

Author: Richard Ben Cramer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684865475
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566

Book Description
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.

Joe and Marilyn

Author: C. David Heymann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439191778
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 448

Book Description
Traces the passionate and sometimes volatile relationship between Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, covering their sensational 1954 elopement and the troubles that led to their divorce nine months later.

Lucky to be a Yankee

Author: Joe DiMaggio
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baseball
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description

Dinner with DiMaggio

Author: Rock G. Positano
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501156845
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
"Revealing and little-known stories of the great Yankees Hall of Famer from the man who knew him best in the last ten years of his life"--

The Silent Season of a Hero

Author: Gay Talese
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802777538
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
Chronicles the writing of the legendary sports journalist, from his first high school job, to becoming the sports reporter for the New York Times, including his pieces on Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali's visit to Fidel Castro and never-before-published articles. Original.

Joe & Marilyn

Author: Roger Kahn
Publisher: Diversion Books
ISBN: 1938120469
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
“Two legendary figures assume humanity…Poignant, humorous, and convincing.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY To the public, it was a match made in heaven. In private, it was nine months of hell. This is the riveting story of what went wrong with one of the world’s most dazzling romances. His dark jealousy…her need for love. His temper…her affairs. His pride…her ambition. A searing drama of powerfully clashing egos. A tense tragedy of taut emotions and driving passions. And, finally, a bittersweet monument to the devoted friendship that endured despite it all. Praise for Roger Kahn: "As a kid, I loved sports first and writing second, and loved everything Roger Kahn wrote. As an adult, I love writing first and sports second, and love Roger Kahn even more." —Pulitzer Prize winner, David Maraniss "He can epitomize a player with a single swing of the pen." —TIME magazine "Roger Kahn is the best baseball writer in the business." —Stephen Jay Gould, New York Review of Books "Kahn has the almost unfair gift of easy, graceful writing." —BOSTON HERALD

National Defense Migration

Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee Investigating National Defense Migration
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Migrant labor
Languages : en
Pages : 1354

Book Description

The Art of Fact

Author: Kevin Kerrane
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684846306
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564

Book Description
A comprehensive and illuminating survey of literary journalism with both historical and international scope, this anthology is the only one of its kind. In a series of sparkling readings, Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda trace the evolution of the so-called "new" journalism back to the 18th century.

Norma Jean

Author: Fred Lawrence Guiles
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1684424763
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371

Book Description
Marilyn Monroe remains the most provocative female legend of the twentieth century. What you may have known about her before was only the tip of the iceberg. For twenty years, the men and women who knew Marilyn best saw what they knew suppressed because certain important people were still living, and the tenor of the times prohibited frankness. Instead, rumors ballooned. This book finally sets the record straight. Fred Guiles—whom Norman Mailer acknowledges as the chief source of fact about Marilyn—has written the life behind the legend. He reveals what really happened in the careening career of the pretty waif named Norma Jean Mortensen, who married the boy next door, became a model, an actress, movie star, married an incompatible legend named Joe DiMaggio, sought to improve the mind that came with her near-perfect body, married playwright Arthur Miller, lent herself to the Svengalilike ministrations of Paula and Lee Strasberg, became the mistress of John and then Robert Kennedy when they ran the country, kept camera crews and studios waiting—but not death, which took her under the most unusual circumstances by the age of thirty-six. A legend, by definition, is unaltered by fact, but the enthralled reader will find the revelations in this book no deterrent to the love of Marilyn Monroe by understanding at last what happened to the Queen of Need. Among the people interviewed for this book are Arthur Miller; James E. Dougherty, her first husband; Frank Taylor, the producer of The Misfits; Lee Strasberg; Otto Preminger; Billy Wilder; Joshua Logan and John Huston.