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Editorial Reviews

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“Beautifully written and culturally important . . . tells the Aaron story with gusto and a ferocious sweep. . . . Bryant may just have given us a classic.”
The Washington Post

“Illuminating and rigorously researched.”
New York Times Book Review

“A welcome and long-overdue portrait . . . thoughtful, insightful and deeply engaging. . . . It easily stands as one of the most impressive profiles of a ballplayer in years.”
San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Bryant is a great writer for a great subject. . . . Mr. Aaron’s story is the epic baseball tale of the second half of the 20th century.”
Atlanta Journal Constitution

“Impressive. . . . Nuanced. . . . For baseball junkies,
The Last Hero offers enough about ballplayers of the era and the game to amply satisfy. But fortunately this book offers more. This is not mere hagiography. This is the tale of a man performing in the public eye, laboring under a persona projected by others with preconceptions of their own, but who gradually moves forward in his quest for self-determination.”
—Bill Nowlin,
The Boston Globe
 
“Brawny. . . .
The Last Hero had the forceful sweep of a well-struck essay as much as that of a first-rate biography.”
The New York Times
 
“The best baseball biography to come along in years, a work that fuses the storytelling acumen of a David Halberstam with the sensitivity for race and sport embodied by writers such as Dave Zirin and William Rhoden. . . . For readers eager to know the man behind the numbers and the footage, Bryant hits one out of the park.”
The Bay State Banner
 
“Perfect for the sports fan and the history buff.”
—Good Morning America
 
“No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron.”
—Ken Burns
 
“Marvelous. . . . Wrists, legs, heart, brain—here is the full picture of a great man and ballplayer who finally gets his due.”
—David Maraniss, author of
Clemente
 
“There will surely be other books on Hank; there may never be a better book on Henry Aaron than Bryant’s
The Last Hero.”
Mobile Press-Register
 
“A fascinating and at times a troubling book, which revivified the lovely old game for me.”
—Tracy Kidder
 
“A must read for baseball fans of every generation.”
Booklist
 
“We already know Henry Aaron as one of the greatest players in the history of baseball.  Now, in Howard Bryant’s impeccably researched and nuanced biography, we know Henry Aaron not just as a great ballplayer, but as a remarkable man. In
The Last Hero Bryant asks the hard questions and cuts through the myths to create a timeless and unflinching portrait of an American icon and his times.  And as in any great biography, in learning about Aaron’s life we also learn something about our own.”
—Glenn Stout, series editor,
The Best American Sports Writing

About the Author

Howard Bryantis the author ofShut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, which was a finalist for the Society for American Baseball Research’s 2003 Seymour Medal, and Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball. He is a senior writer forESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine; appears regularly on ESPN’s The Sports Reporters, ESPN First Take, and Outside the Lines; and serves as sports correspondent for NPR’s Weekend Edition Saturday. He lives in western Massachusetts.
 
Visit the author’s website at: www.howardbryant.net.


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Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Anchor; Reprint edition (May 3, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 640 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0307279928
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0307279927
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.12 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 1.4 x 8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 287 ratings

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Howard Bryant is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine. He has also served as the sports correspondent for National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Saturday since 2006.

Prior to joining ESPN in 2007, Mr. Bryant spent the previous two years at The Washington Post. He has worked at the Boston Herald, The Bergen Record, The San Jose Mercury News and The Oakland Tribune.

A native of Boston, Mr. Bryant is the author of three books: Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston, Juicing the Game: Drugs, Power and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball and The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron.

He has also contributed to five other books: Thinking Black: Some of the Nation's Best Black Columnists Speak Their Mind (1995), Red Sox Century, Yankees Century, The Dodgers and The Good City: Writers Explore 21st Century Boston.

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Rick
5.0 out of 5 stars So many reasons BEYOND baseball to read this book ...and the baseball’s great too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on Hank Aaron!
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