American - Journalist | June 12, 1950 - January 7, 2013
This book-promotion stuff is like a political campaign. You work your butt off, and at the end of the day, you can't tell if it's made a damned bit of difference.
Richard Ben Cramer
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DiMaggio was never a rube. He was very smart and very urban. Coming out of the Great Depression, he was the immigrant boy who made it big. Coming back from World War II, he had all the wealth and power that New York aspired to. When New York saw itself as the center of the world, he was its paragon of class.
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The first time I met Alex Rodriguez, he was in the fight of his life. He was the guy who was supposed to have everything - good looks, good health, good habits - all the talent in the world and most of the money.
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Few men try for best ever, and Ted Williams is one of those.
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At some point... Israel ground away, or gave away, her birthright of loyalty from the West.
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When there are fewer and fewer publishers of scale, it's just not good for authors.
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At every step in his life, DiMaggio was what New Yorkers wanted in a hero.
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The expectations for a nonfiction writer are awful high.
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When you're working on a project that's going to take six years, you're weird from the jump.
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I had every stress-related illness you can get.
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You can say you're going to take a vacation, and you can even take the time, but you might as well not, because the book is still sitting in your head.
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Certainly no man could be such an irredeemable 'schlub' as the American press portrays its losers.
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