Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life by Richard Ben Cramer

In this masterful biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer delivers a profound and unflinching portrait of Joe DiMaggio — one of America’s most revered yet enigmatic sports legends. From his meteoric rise with the New York Yankees to his turbulent marriage with Marilyn Monroe and his reclusive later years, Joe DiMaggio: The Hero’s Life captures the tension between the man and the myth. Cramer strips away the layers of celebrity and nostalgia to reveal DiMaggio’s ambition, isolation, and the cost of greatness in the American imagination.