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  • Joe DiMaggio

    The Hero's Life

    by Richard Ben Cramer ...
    Joe DiMaggio was, at every turn, one man we could look at who made us feel good.In the hard-knuckled thirties, he was the immigrant boy who made it big—and spurred the New York Yankees to a new era of dynasty. He was Broadway Joe, the icon of elegance, the man who wooed and won Marilyn Monroe—the most beautiful girl America could dream up.Joe DiMaggio was a mirror of our best self. And he was also ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • How Israel Lost

    The Four Questions

    by Richard Ben Cramer ...
    In this “powerful polemic that deserves to be read” (The New York Review of Books), the major issues that have haunted Israel and Palestine for decades are insightfully explored and analyzed.With personal observation and sharp and challenging arguments, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Ben Cramer insists that Israel is losing her soul by maintaining her occupation of the lands conquered in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • What It Takes: The Way to the White House

    The Way to the White House

    by Richard Ben Cramer ...
    A masterpiece of political reportage that exposes the emotional reality of the modern American campaign systemPulitzer Prize–winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer cracks open the heart of the American political system in this classic exploration of the 1988 presidential campaign. Cramer delves into the personal, intimate lives of the key candidates, including George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, Joe Biden ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Strange and Mysterious Death of Mrs. Jerry Lee Lewis: A True Story of Rock N' Roll and Murder.

    The Stacks Reader Series, #13

    by Richard Ben Cramer ...
    Series Book 13 - The Stacks Reader Series
    Was rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis' fourth wife murdered, and did her husband, a man nicknamed "the Killer" do it? A literary whodunnit by one of the greats of artful and hard-hitting narrative journalism. Including an introduction by imprint editor Alex Belth and a note from publisher Mike Sager, a Cramer acolyte.With an introduction by series editor Alex Belth and a tribute by series publisher, ... Read more

    $1.01 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Big Data Was Small

    My Life in Baseball Analytics and Drug Design

    by Richard D. Cramer ...
    Richard D. Cramer has been doing baseball analytics for just about as long as anyone alive, even before the term “sabermetrics” existed. He started analyzing baseball statistics as a hobby in the mid-1960s, not long after graduating from Harvard and MIT. He was a research scientist for SmithKline and in his spare time used his work computer to test his theories about baseball statistics. One of ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?

    A Remembrance

    by Richard Ben Cramer ...
    Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner and acclaimed biographer of Joe DiMaggio decodes baseball icon Ted Williams and finds not just a great player, but also a great man.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.In 1986, Richard Ben Cramer spent ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    What It Takes

    The Way to the White House

    by Richard Ben Cramer ...
    Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright ...

    Unabridged

    54 hours 35 min

    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 ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy

    Edited by Arkebe Oqubay, Christopher Cramer, Ha-Joon Chang, Richard Kozul-Wright ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Industrial policy has long been regarded as a strategy to encourage sector-, industry-, or economy-wide development by the state. It has been central to competitiveness, catching up, and structural change in both advanced and developing countries. It has also been one of the most contested perspectives, reflecting ideologically inflected debates and shifts in prevailing ideas. There has lately ... Read more

    $172.79 USD

  • Being Poppy

    A Portrait of George Herbert Walker Bush

    by Richard Ben Cramer ...
    The most intimate portrait of George H.W. Bush ever published.George Herbert Walker Bush, the forty-first president of the United States and the patriarch of America’s most powerful political dynasty, never wrote a memoir. But bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Richard Ben Cramer took the full measure of President Bush in his thousand-page epic, What It Takes—one of the most ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life

    The Heros Life

    by Richard Ben Cramer ...
    Narrated by Richard Ben Cramer ...

    Abridged

    6 hours 17 min

    In the hard-knuckled thirties, Joe DiMaggio was the immigrant boy who made it big. He was the dominant star in the New York Yankees dynasty. As World War II loomed, Joltin' Joe launched a fifty-six game hitting streak -- and the nation literally sang his name. In the age of postwar ease and plenty, he became Broadway Joe, the icon of elegance and class -- marrying Marilyn Monroe, the most ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Old Fields

    Dynamics and Restoration of Abandoned Farmland

    by Richard J. Hobbs ...
    Series series Science Practice Ecological Restoration
    Land abandonment is increasing as human influence on the globe intensifies and various ecological, social, and economic factors conspire to force the cessation of agriculture and other forms of land management. The “old fields” that result from abandonment have been the subject of much study, yet few attempts have been made to examine the larger questions raised by old field dynamics.Old Fields ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

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    Luckiest Man

    The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig

    by Jonathan Eig ...
    Narrated by Edward Herrmann ...

    Abridged

    5 hours 47 min

    The definitive account of the life and tragic death of baseball legend Lou Gehrig.Lou Gehrig was a baseball legend—the Iron Horse, the stoic New York Yankee who was the greatest first baseman in history, a man whose consecutive-games streak was ended by a horrible disease that now bears his name. But as this definitive new biography makes clear, Gehrig’s life was more complicated—and, perhaps, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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