Joe & Marilyn : A Memory of Love, CD/Spoken Word by Kahn, Roger; Hill, Dick (...

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Joe & Marilyn : A Memory of Love, CD/Spoken Word by Kahn, Roger; Hill, Dick (NRT), ISBN 1469240505, ISBN-13 9781469240503, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
He was the most famous and best ballplayer of his generation. She was America&;s blonde. They were intense, impassioned lovers, and, long after that, gentle and loving friends. The only thing that didn&;t work between Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe was their marriage.
Joe & Marilyn
is a portrait of DiMaggio, as godlike as his legend on the field, but vulnerable and intensely human off and of a stormy Marilyn of whom it was said, &;She doesn&;t need a husband. She needs salvation.&;
After DiMaggio retired from baseball, he saw a publicity photo of Marilyn and his courtship began. She was reluctant to meet him fearing an old, vulgar ballplayer and instead finding a poised and graying man&;"a little shy, like me"&;impeccably tailored and financially secure. When they married in 1954, reporters called them &;Mr. and Mrs. America.&; But their married life was strained from the start. She was messy. He was compulsively neat. He wanted a certain primness and she liked to show her storied body. The marriage lasted nine months.
In later years as Marilyn drifted through mental illness, DiMaggio reappeared as a stalwart friend. But even he could not rescue her. In the end all that was left for him was to plan her funeral. He barred some of Hollywood&;s most famous names. Why? "Because they killed her," he told a friend.
W.E.B Griffin
The Traffickers Unabridged audio book in great condition.  Sounds Great.  Box a little worn
11 CDs  Read by Scott Brick