In the life of the great cultural icon baseball slugger Mickey Mantle, we see America\'s romance with boldness, its celebration of muscle, and its comfort in power during a time when might did make right.
Mickey Mantle: America\'s Prodigal Son is both an explosive biography of one of the world\'s mo.
But if his life symbolized the great expectations of America in the 1950s, it also epitomized the dashed dreams of a troubled generation in the 1960s and its unrealistic hopes for achievement.
In the life of the great cultural icon baseball slugger Mickey Mantle, we see America\'s romance with boldness, its celebration of muscle, and its comfort in power during a time when might did make right