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Suite101.com, February 1, 2010
...this collection, and I wanted to write about it for the same reason I wanted to write about Richard Ben Cramer's book on Joe DiMaggio. Gods had walked the earth in my time, and I wanted to boast about being there when they did it." Baker remains...
STLtoday.com, January 17, 2010
...result of all this is that none of White's evil spawn have broken new ground. Except for Richard Ben Cramer's magisterial 'What it Takes,' about the 1988 campaign, few of them have told anyone who closely followed the campaigns in newspapers and on...
NPR, January 14, 2010
...following a robust non-tradition, especially in political books. They pointed to the classic about the 1988 campaign by Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes. 'From the very outset, we wanted to try to write a book that was narrative driven, that was...
New York Post, October 19, 2009
...home-run hitting, there's a new cloud on the horizon: another unauthorized bio, this one by Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Ben Cramer, who ripped Joe DiMaggio to shreds in a 2000 book. Cramer depicted the Yankee Clipper as a "cold, small, often nasty,...
OurSports Central, August 22, 2009
...a 'beautifully told tale of love, fate and forgiveness' by former New York Times sports columnist Robert Lipsyte. Richard Ben Cramer, author of 'Joe Dimaggio: The Hero's Life', was quoted that 'It's a story of hard luck in a hard game but, in the lives...
Green Valley News and Sun, July 4, 2009
...Red Smith, W.C. Heinz, Hunter S. Thompson, Rick Reilly, Bill Simmons, Ralph Wiley, Frank Deford, Gary Talese, Richard Ben Cramer and a few under-the-radar gems. If you have any suggestions, please e-mail them to me. I want this to be a community proje...
Asiaone, July 3, 2009
...and St John paints an emotional, fascinating portrait of him. 9) Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life By Richard Ben Cramer I don't watch baseball, but this man, an American icon, a private man yet married to Marilyn Monroe, intrigued me. Cramer's book,...
PublishersWeekly.com, March 5, 2009
...Bestseller; Two Comics to the Big Screen; Ramona and Beezus Heads to Film; and Cindy Adams on Blagojevich, Richard Ben Cramer Sara Nelson has a piece in the Los Angeles Times about the round-about way Wallaces last book, The Pale King, will find its...
MSNBC, March 4, 2009
...Pulitzer Prize winner writing A-Rod book Richard Ben Cramer, a Pulitzer Prize winning author who penned a noted biography of Joe DiMaggio, is working on a book about Alex Rodriguez. Unlike DiMaggio, who refused to interview with...
PublishersWeekly.com, March 4, 2009
...Bestseller; Two Comics to the Big Screen; Ramona and Beezus Heads to Film; and Cindy Adams on Blagojevich, Richard Ben Cramer Sara Nelson has a piece in the Los Angeles Times about the round-about way Wallaces last book, The Pale King, will find its...
PublishersWeekly.com, March 4, 2009
...Bestseller; Two Comics to the Big Screen; Ramona and Beezus Heads to Film; and Cindy Adams on Blagojevich, Richard Ben Cramer Sara Nelson has a piece in the Los Angeles Times about the round-about way Wallaces last book, The Pale King, will find its...
The Fix, January 8, 2010
...an amazing work. I try to read this at least once a year. Nonfiction: What it Takes by Richard Ben Cramer. The best look ever at how politics is really conducted through the lens of the 1988 presidential campaign. If you don't own both of these books, go...
Glam Media Network Blog Posts for - Celebrities, October 19, 2009
...home-run hitting, there’s a new cloud on the horizon: another unauthorized bio, this one by Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Ben Cramer, who ripped Joe DiMaggio to shreds in a 2000 book. Cramer depicted the Yankee Clipper as a “cold, small, often...
PopMatters, September 8, 2009
...Hansen’s stirring stigmata drama, Mariette in Ecstasy ; the riveting biography, Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life by Richard Ben Cramer, and Bruce Wagner’s devastating L.A. satire, Still Holding . But nothing in my worst sleepless psoriatic...
Ron Kaplan's Baseball Bookshelf, May 5, 2009
...Durocher ’s “Nice Guys Finish Last” will teach you more baseball than a year of “Baseball Tonight.” And Richard Ben Cramer’s biography of Joe DiMaggio is impossible to put down, as is Robert Creamer’s bio of The Babe. These are just a few...
Out Of Left Field, April 3, 2009
...the people he/she is writing about, you don't have a book worth plunking $20-30 on; you have Richard Ben Cramer 's Joe DiMaggio biography from about 10 years ago. Rocket works by inviting the reader to re-imagine Roger Clemens as part tragic hero, part...
