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The Last Hero: A Life Of Henry Aaron (2010)

by Howard Bryant(Favorite Author)

4.01 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0375424857 (ISBN13: 9780375424854)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Pantheon

review 1: If all you know about Henry Aaron is "he hit a lot of home runs," then you do not know Henry Aaron. This bio (one of the few that Aaron endorsed) tells as complete of the story about his life that can be told. From his beginnings growing up in Mobile to he really thought about Bonds and breaking his all-time home run total. Even though I am a baseball fan, my only gripe about this book (and this is a small one) is there wasn't a lot of time spent on exploring how successful Henry has been in the business world.
review 2: Except for occasional sportswriting cliches, this biography of Henry Aaron is an excellent book. There is plenty of baseball in this volume--pennant races, home run records, etc.--but like the recent Willie Mays biography, it is more than a... more baseball book, for it explores the role of race in the last half of the twentieth century in America. Racial issues deeply affected Aaron, who wanted to be seen as more than a baseball player but was caught in a world that defined and limited him by its racial expectations. Aaron was not always an easy individual to relate to but he comes across in this book as a genuine and thoroughly admirable human being. The volume is highly readable and is well worth reading, even by those who are not baseball fans. less

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