The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood - Hardcover

[THE LAST BOY] 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. --Philadelphia Inquirer

The Last Boy is something new in the history of the histories of the Mick. It is hard fact, reported by someone greatly skilled at that craft...and presented so that the reader and not the author draws nearly all the conclusions. --Keith Olberman, The New York Times Book Review

Definitive --Sports Illustrated

Engrossing The Last Boy is a fresh, thorough examination of Mickey Mantle s life. --New York Newsday

Do not walk - sprint - to the bookstore to get a copy of The Last Boy. --Boston Globe

The Last Boy is stunning. Jane Leavy captures the beautiful, imperfect Mickey Mantle with equal measures of depth and empathy. She finds the buried answers to the riddle of what drove and haunted the Mick. --David Maraniss, author of Clemente and Lombardi: When Pride Still Mattered

"With storytelling bravado and fresh research...[in] Leavy's hands, the life of Mantle no longer defies logic. She hits a long home run."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"The only thing about this book that is better than Jane Leavy's vivid prose is her astonishing reporting. To my knowledge, no one has ever investigated the life of an American athlete with Leavy's rigor and thoroughness."--Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition and Nine Innings

""The Last Boy" is stunning. Jane Leavy captures the beautiful, imperfect Mickey Mantle with equal measures of depth and empathy. She finds the buried answers to the riddle of what drove and haunted the Mick."--David Maraniss, author of Clemente and Lombardi: When Pride Still Mattered

"Definitive."--Sports Illustrated

Drawing on more than 500 interviews with loved ones and fellow baseball players, the author crafts a deeply personal biography of the Yankee great, weaving her own memories of the major-league slugger with an authoritative account of his life on and off the field. By the best-selling author of Sandy Koufax. 200,000 first printing.