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Jane Leavy, the acclaimed writer of the New York Times best vendor Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy, comes back with a biography of your American original: #7 7, Mickey Mantle. Drawing on more than 500 interviews with relatives and buddies, teammates, and competitors, she provides the definitive consideration of Mantle's life, mining the mythology with the Mick for the true story of your luminous and illustrious expertise with an achingly broken soul. Meticulously reported and elegantly written, The Last Boy is a football tapestry that weaves collectively episodes from the author's weekend with all the Mick in Atlantic City, where she interviewed her hero in 1983, after he was banned from football, with reminiscences from relatives and buddies of the son from Business, Oklahoma, who would lead the Yankees to seven world championships, be voted the North american League's Most Valuable Player three times, win the Triple Crown in 1956, and duel teammate Roger Maris for Babe Ruth's home run crown in the summer of 1961 - the same son who would never expand up. As she performed so memorably in her biography of Sandy Koufax, Jane Leavy transcends the hyperbole of hero worship to uncover the man behind the coast-to-coast giggle, who grappled with a wrenching childhood, crippling injury, and a genetic predisposition to alcoholism. In The Last Boy she chronicles her search to discover more about the person he was and, given what she discovers, to describe his mystifying hold on a generation of baseball followers, who were seduced by that lopsided, gap-toothed grin. It really is an uncommon biography, with literary overtones: not only a portrait of your icon, but an investigation of ram itself. "I believe in ram, not memorabilia," Leavy writes in her preface. However in The Last Boy, she discovers that that which you remember of our own heroes - and even what they keep in mind of themselves - is merely where the history begins.
