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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 of...
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”
Jane Leavy on Mike’d Up
Watch a video excerpt from Jane’s live interview with Mike Francesca.
Jane Leavy’s ‘The Last Boy’ digs deep into Mickey Mantle’s past, dispels myths about Yankee slugger
Daily News: “She crafts a compelling account of who Mantle was and what made him tick.” Excerpts of the book run in Daily News beginning Wednesday, October 13
Mantle biography hits for the cycle
The Last Boy review by Bob Hoover in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Last Boy Reviewed on Salon.com
Allen Barra: “‘The Last Boy’ goes further than any biography yet in capturing the baseball legend — and the mess he became”
The Mick in SI
Read The Last Boy excerpt in the October 11 Sports Illustrated. On newsstands now