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050	0	0	_aGV865.D5 _bC73 2000
082	0	0	_a92 DIM
100	1		_aCramer, Richard Ben
245	1	0	_aJoe DiMaggio _b: the hero's life _c/ Richard Ben Cramer
260			_aNew York _b: Simon & Schuster _c, c2000
300			_a546 p. _b: illus. _c; 25 cm.
500			_aIncludes index
520			_aFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer, here is the definitive story of Joe DiMaggio's life -- the story that DiMaggio never would tell. This groundbreaking biography of DiMaggio -- from his first game with the Yankees in the 1930's through his rise to national hero status, and onto his lonely and mysterious death last year -- reveals startling information about his life, but becomes much more than one man's story. In Cramer's hands, DiMaggio's complicated life befomes, too, the story of America's media machine, the invention of a national celebrity in America, and the ways in which fame can both build and destroy.
600	1	0	_aDimaggio, Joe _d, 1914 - 1999
650		4	_aBaseball players _z-United States _v--Biography
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