Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life. Rich...

Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life. Richard Ben Cramer. novel York: Simon & Schuster, 2000 346 pp $2600; $Can41.50.

"Cramer sketches a Yankee Clipper who was not simply peculiar but also selfish, Self-indulgent, and self-centr Plus cheap. And a little mobbed-up.... He was untutored greedy, manipulative, self-absorbed and spoiled. He was also forage to the hero machine; America emergencyed a hero and it settle out to make one of Joe"

David M Shribman. Globe and Mail, Oct 31