It’s not fit work for an adult just dragging idols off the shelf. It’s too easy. Richard Ben Cramer Read Quote
The average-guy routine works only so much, and then people begin to want something more. Richard Ben Cramer Read Quote
When your friend causes you trouble, a president gets rid of those friends. Richard Ben Cramer Read Quote
There is not often much policy discussion with the Bushes. There isn’t much introspection. Several generations of Bush men could pass by in which the great questions of humankind will go undiscussed. Richard Ben Cramer Read Quote
What good was being the king of the rackets in Newark, N.J., if you couldn’t have DiMaggio at your dinner table? Richard Ben Cramer Read Quote
People think of DiMaggio as the exemplar of a ‘golden age,’ and in some ways, he was. But in the most fundamental ways, he was really the first modern athletic superstar because, number one, he ushered in the era of big money; and number two, he never did anything except that – he never really took another job in another industry. Richard Ben Cramer Read Quote
He was J. DiMaggio, and that was his business. He always was served and hosted – he was America’s guest. And I really I don’t think we would have the athletes that we have today and the social system in which they live without DiMaggio and what he did. Richard Ben Cramer Read Quote
I was with the mujaheddin, the rebels, and they were fighting against the Russians, and they would bring me along. Some of the adventures, when I look back at them now, it’s a wonder I’m still around. Richard Ben Cramer Read Quote
I think the story of DiMaggio was alluring precisely for its impossibility. Richard Ben Cramer Read Quote
