The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood
by Jane Leavy
Description
This compelling biography chronicles Mickey Mantle’s rise from a small-town Oklahoma prodigy to one of baseball’s most dazzling—and troubled—superstars. Drawing on extensive interviews and firsthand accounts, it explores his extraordinary athletic gifts, relentless injuries, public image, and private struggles. More than a sports story, the book examines fame, masculinity, addiction, and the cultural transition from an idealized postwar America to a more complicated age. Vividly reported and deeply humane, it presents Mantle as both an enduring legend and a profoundly vulnerable man.
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paperback
Harper
Published Jan 1, 2010
456 pages
ISBN: 9780060883522
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First Published
2010
Language
eng
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