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The Best American Sports Writing 2004by Glenn Stout, Richard Ben CramerISBN 0618251391 (0-618-25139-1)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Bob Doleby Richard Ben CramerISBN 051719967X (0-517-19967-X)
Softcover, Random House Value Publishing
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How Israel Lost: The Four Questionsby Richard Ben CramerISBN 074325029X (0-7432-5029-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Israel Lost: The Four Questions'Book summary:It may seem surprising that a lengthy exploration of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians could be entertaining. But Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Ben Cramer manages to pull off just such a feat while sacrificing neither the gravity of the situation nor the intricacies of a political and religious war that seems to grow perpetually more bloody and intractable. He argues that Israel is being slowly destroyed by their continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, which is in turn destroying the Palestinians' hopes for a homeland of their own. Cramer's book is divided into four questions about the conflict ("Why do we care about Israel?", "Why don't the Palestinians have a state?", "What is a Jewish state?", and "Why is there no peace?") modeled after the questions asked at a Passover seder. It's tricky to bring fresh insight to the situation in the Middle East since the cycle of attacks and subsequent retaliations is so depressingly perpetual. But Cramer ! strikes just the right tone to spark reader interest: irreverent without being inappropriate, blunt and direct without oversimplifying, and passionate without being biased. He's at his best in the book's final chapter, offering advice for hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ("Give back the land - the West Bank and Gaza") and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat ("bring one actual lawyer and someone to talk English on TV"). And while the history lessons provided in How Israel Lost are worthwhile, particularly to those whose knowledge of the conflict doesn't reach past the morning papers, it's Cramer's personal anecdotes of the human beings in the middle of the crisis and his own experiences covering it, combined with his lively writing, that make this such a compelling read. --John Moe [via]
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- How Israel Lost : The Four Questions: ISBN 0743267982 (0-7432-6798-2)
Softcover, Free Press - How Israel Lost : The Four Questions: ISBN 0743250281 (0-7432-5028-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - How Israel Lost: The Four Questions: ISBN 0786269707 (0-7862-6970-7)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr - How Israel Lost: The Four Questions: ISBN 074325029X (0-7432-5029-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
- How Israel Lost : The Four Questions: ISBN 0743267982 (0-7432-6798-2)
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Joe DiMaggioby Richard Ben CramerISBN 0684865475 (0-684-86547-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joe DiMaggio'Book summary:In a stunning feat of meticulous reportage, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ben Cramer ultimately puts to rest the "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" question with iconoclastic bravura. In Cramer's evaluation, the hero America held onto so desperately for so long was really a creation of a nation's communal imagination. The Joe DiMaggio that America tried so hard to believe in was never really here at all.
There was, of course, a Joe DiMaggio, and he had a splendid career in Yankee pinstripes--once hitting safely in an unimaginable 56 consecutive games--and a troubled marriage with Marilyn Monroe, each augmenting the other in our national mythology. But myths tend to be skin-deep, and Cramer's biography thrives in an internal geography well below the surface. The map he charts is of a cold, small, often nasty, uncaring, resentful, self-centered man, a man of public grace and private misery who broke friendships, shunned family, and chased money with the same focused energies he once harnessed to run down fly balls. It's not a pretty picture.
Scrupulously researched and elegantly written, The Hero's Life is filled with stories and reminiscences, both on and off the field, from others--not surprisingly, DiMaggio offered no cooperation--that both illumine the man and, more fascinatingly, explain our very need for him. Amid all the success and adulation, there was little joy in DiMaggio's life, and few moments--beyond the real heartache he felt over Monroe--of connection with others beyond Joe's personal need for others to serve him. "No one really knew what it meant to have spent a half-century being precisely and distinctly DiMaggio," Cramer writes, "what we required Joe DiMaggio to be. No one knew, as he did, what it cost to live the hero's life. And no one knew, as he did, precisely what it was worth." It seems our nation turned its lonely eyes to a proud, but empty shell; Cramer's superb book helps us understand why we did, and how DiMaggio was able to take all the good will extended him and give so little back. --Jeff Silverman [via]
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Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Lifeby Richard Ben CramerISBN 0684853914 (0-684-85391-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Joe DiMaggio : The Hero's Life'Book summary:In a stunning feat of meticulous reportage, Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ben Cramer ultimately puts to rest the "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?" question with iconoclastic bravura. In Cramer's evaluation, the hero America held onto so desperately for so long was really a creation of a nation's communal imagination. The Joe DiMaggio that America tried so hard to believe in was never really here at all.
There was, of course, a Joe DiMaggio, and he had a splendid career in Yankee pinstripes--once hitting safely in an unimaginable 56 consecutive games--and a troubled marriage with Marilyn Monroe, each augmenting the other in our national mythology. But myths tend to be skin-deep, and Cramer's biography thrives in an internal geography well below the surface. The map he charts is of a cold, small, often nasty, uncaring, resentful, self-centered man, a man of public grace and private misery who broke friendships, shunned family, and chased money with the same focused energies he once harnessed to run down fly balls. It's not a pretty picture.
Scrupulously researched and elegantly written, The Hero's Life is filled with stories and reminiscences, both on and off the field, from others--not surprisingly, DiMaggio offered no cooperation--that both illumine the man and, more fascinatingly, explain our very need for him. Amid all the success and adulation, there was little joy in DiMaggio's life, and few moments--beyond the real heartache he felt over Monroe--of connection with others beyond Joe's personal need for others to serve him. "No one really knew what it meant to have spent a half-century being precisely and distinctly DiMaggio," Cramer writes, "what we required Joe DiMaggio to be. No one knew, as he did, what it cost to live the hero's life. And no one knew, as he did, precisely what it was worth." It seems our nation turned its lonely eyes to a proud, but empty shell; Cramer's superb book helps us understand why we did, and how DiMaggio was able to take all the good will extended him and give so little back. --Jeff Silverman [via]
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The Subway Series Readerby Richard Ben CramerISBN 0743218086 (0-7432-1808-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?: A Remembranceby Richard Ben CramerISBN 0743246489 (0-7432-4648-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?: A Remembrance'Book summary:When legendary Red Sox hitter Ted Williams died on July 5, 2002, newspapers reviewed the stats, compared him to other legends of the game, and declared him the greatest hitter who ever lived. Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner and acclaimed biographer of Joe DiMaggio, decodes this oversized icon who dominated the game and finds not just a great player, but also a great man.
In 1986, Richard Ben Cramer spent months on a profile of Ted Williams, and the result was the Esquire article that has been acclaimed ever since as one of the finest pieces of sports reporting ever written. Given special acknowledgment in The Best American Sportswriting of the Century and adapted for a coffee-table book called Ted Williams: The Seasons of the Kid, the original piece is now available in this special edition, with new material about Williams' later years. While his decades after Fenway Park were out of the spotlight -- the way Ted preferred it -- they were arguably his richest, as he loved and inspired his family, his fans, the players, and the game itself. This is a remembrance for the ages. [via]
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What It Takesby Richard Ben CramerISBN 0517286858 (0-517-28685-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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What It Takes: The Way to the White Houseby Richard Ben CramerISBN 0679746498 (0-679-74649-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What It Takes: The Way to the White House'Book summary:An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race -- and scours the psyches of contenders from George Bush and Robert Dole to Michael Dukakis and Gary Hart -- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer comes up with the answers, in a book that is vast, exhaustively researched, exhilarating, and sometimes appalling in its revelations.
From the Trade Paperback edition. [via]More editions of What It Takes: The Way to the White House:
- What It Takes: The Way to the White House: ISBN 0394562607 (0-394-56260-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - What It Takes: The Way to the White House: ISBN 0517117193 (0-517-11719-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - What It Takes: The Way to the White House: ISBN 0679746498 (0-679-74649-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- What It Takes: The Way to the White House: ISBN 0394562607 (0-394-56260-7)
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