Dimaggio: Setting the Record Straight

by Morris Engelberg

Widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, Joe DiMaggio transcended sports and was a true American icon. Beyond his public life in a New York Yankee uniform and his glamorous if brief marriage to Marilyn Monroe, DiMaggio was an intensely private individual who rarely, if ever, revealed himself to biographers attempting to tell his life story. Until now. Morris Engelberg, DiMaggio's closest friend and confidante over the last 16 years of his life, had rare access and insight to the man behind the legend. Teamed up with longtime AP journalist Marv Schneider, Engelberg corrects inaccuracies in recent biographies of DiMaggio and reveals the true, inside story of the great "Joltin' Joe."

Genres: Sports

464 pages, Paperback

First published March 27, 2004

Reviews

[Brendan Boelke · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a terrible read, and definitely offers insight into Joe D's personality that I'd never read before. However, by the end of the book it is transparently self-serving as the author paints himself, outside of a few family members a couple of his trusted employees (!) to be Joe's only friend and the only one who is really looking out for him. By the end my cynicism radar was way up...

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