"Brilliant... a valuable contribution to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxthe understanding of our time."                                      Publishers Weekly on 'Chicano Power'  "Tony Castro has always brought a remarkable talent for inhabiting the very essence and spirit of his subjects, and the same is true in his new biography, 'Looking for Hemingway.' Castro seems to sense that Hemingway is acutely aware … Please Read More

 Prologue “I guess you could say I’m what this country’s all about."  -- Mickey Mantle   IF MICKEY MANTLE HADN'T lived, broadcaster Mel Allen once said, he would have been invented. In a sense, then, Mickey Mantle, like most heroes, was a construction; he was not real. He was all that America wanted itself to be, and he was also all that America feared it could never be. The … Now available as an e-book at Amazon.com

Gehrig & The Babe

"Gracefully written, deeply researched, full of passion, insights and surprising twists. A triumph."                                                                   — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ira Berkow AS THE GREATEST pair of sluggers to play together in baseball history, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig helped found the first Yankees dynasty. Together, the two men enjoyed unparalleled fame, all while being … Read More

Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America

An excerpt from Chicano Power: IT WAS MIDSUMMER 1972, two weeks after he had turned down a place on his party's presidential ticket, and Senator Edward M. Kennedy, in that flat Boston twang so reminiscent of the voices of the other Kennedys, was recalling the past for a people whose own history on the continent predated that of his New England constituents. But it was the recent past that Kennedy recalled, … Read More