Never Grow Old
Keith Olbermann’s review of The Last Boy in the New York Times Book Review.
The Mick in triumph and despair: Review in the Philadelphia Inquirer
Bill Lyon: “It is a tale deftly told, rich in detail, unvarnished and unsparing, researched to a fare-thee-well, alternatively fluid and florid, and without staleness because Leavy has found a new angle from which to come at a well-worked-over subject.”
Dan Shaughnessy in the Boston Globe
“Do not walk — sprint — to the bookstore to get a copy of ‘The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood’ by Jane Leavy.”
Interview on NYMag.com
Jane Leavy on Her New Mickey Mantle Biography Jane Leavy, whose book Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy was a New York Times bestseller, had profiled Mickey Mantle before — in 1983, for the Washington Post. But her new book, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End...Mickey Mantle book delves into drunkenness, sexual abuse
USA TODAY | Stephen Borelli
Mantle Biography Delves Into Traumas and Myths
Richard Sandomir: “And through more than 500 interviews over five years, she delves further than other biographers have into Mantle’s alcoholism”