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”
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