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As the New York Yankees star centerfielder from to Joe DiMaggio is enshrined in Americas memory as the epitome in sports of grace dignity and that ineffable quality called class But his career after retirement starting with his nine-month marriage to Marilyn Monroe was far less auspicious Writers like Gay Talese and Richard Ben Cramer have painted the private DiMaggio as cruel or self-centered Now Jerome Charyn restores the image of this American icon looking at DiMaggios life in a more sympathetic lightDiMaggio was a man of extremes superbly talented on the field but privately insecure passive and dysfunctional He never understood that for Monroe on her own complex and tragic journey marriage was a career move he remained passionately committed to her throughout his life Heallowed himself to beturned into a sports memorabilia money machine In the end unable to define any role for himself other than Greatest Living Ballplayer he became trapped in a horrible kind of minutia But where others have seen little that was human behind that minutia Charyn in Joe DiMaggio presents the tragedy of one of American sports greatest figures.



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