Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son - Couverture souple

Castro, Tony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1597971715 ISBN 13 : 9781597971713

Editeur : Potomac Books Inc, 2008

Synopsis

More than any other athlete, Mickey Mantle was the American hero whose life personified the great expectations and unfulfilled dreams of the twentieth century. Hailed by Casey Stengel as the next Ruth and successor to DiMaggio, Mantle would become the first true sports icon of the television age. In Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son, formerSports Illustrated writer Tony Castro recounts a story of fathers and sons, rebels and heroes, and a youth's rite of passage. He interviewed over 250 of Mantle's friends, teammates, lovers, acquaintances, and drinking partners,producing an explosive biography of one of the world's most fascinating sports heroes and a telling look at the American society of his time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

TONY CASTRO is a Harvard and Baylor University-educated historian, Napoleonic and Hemingway scholar and the best-selling author of the literary biography 'Looking for Hemingway' and the landmark civil rights history 'Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America,' which Publishers Weekly acclaimed as "brilliant... a valuable contribution to the understanding of our time."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Potomac Books Inc
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1597971715
• ISBN 13: 9781597971713
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 336
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• Personne responsable: non disponible