Joe DiMaggio , author of monumental ` ` What It Takes , '' dead at 62 . Dukakis remembered as generous , warm , a little stubborn . ` ` What It Takes '' called 62 of the great books on American politics in 1950 . He won a Pulitzer Prize for his Middle East reporting in 1979 . Cramer 's other books included biography of Richard Ben Cramer , thoughts on Mideast .
Joe DiMaggio , author of monumental ` ` What It Takes , '' dead at 62 . Dukakis remembered as generous , warm , a little stubborn . `` What It Takes '' called 62 of the great books on American politics in 1950 . Cramer 's other books included biography of Richard Ben Cramer , thoughts on Mideast .