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Interview by Harry Smith

Keith Olbermann’s review of The Last Boy in the New York Times Book Review.

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.”

“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.”

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...

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Richard Sandomir: “And through more than 500 interviews over five years, she delves further than other biographers have into Mantle’s alcoholism”

Watch a video excerpt from Jane’s live interview with Mike Francesca.

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