Jerome Charyn: Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil (USA 2012) From the Publisher: DiMaggio 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. He allowed himself to be turned 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. Jerome Charyn: Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil. Yale University Press, ISBN: 9780300181470 (March, 2012), 170 p., $15.00.
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Jerome Charyn: Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil (USA 2011) From the Publisher: DiMaggio 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. He allowed himself to be turned 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. Jerome Charyn: Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil. Yale University Press, ISBN: 9780300123289 (March, 2011), 170 p., $24.00.
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