Howard Bryant's The Last Hero is the saga of the beguiling Henry Aaron and his journey. In this beautifully written and culturally important biography, Howard Bryant tells the Aaron story with gusto and a ferocious sweep. There is plenty of baseball, but just as important the book includes front-office politics and the struggles of those who, like Aaron, came up right behind Jackie Robinson. It is also a deft examination of how white writers and black writers wrote about Aaron.
(From the Washington Post 5/23/10)
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