BOOKS | mick

THE BOOKS

To order one of Tony's books, click on the 'Buy It' buttons below to go the the appropriate Amazon.com page.

Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son

ISBN-978-1597971713

More than any other athlete, Mickey Mantle was the American hero whose life personified the great expectations and unfulfilled dreams of the twentieth century. Hailed by Casey Stengel as the next Ruth and successor to DiMaggio, Mantle would become the first true sports icon of the television age.

In Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son, former Sports Illustrated writer Tony Castro recounts a story of fathers and sons, rebels and heroes, and a youth's rite of passage. He interviewed over 250 of Mantle's friends, teammates, lovers, acquaintances, and drinking partners, producing an explosive biography of one of the world's most fascinating sports heroes and a telling look at the American society of his time.

The Prince of South Waco

ISBN-978-1475983906

In an ideal universe, theirs might have been the perfect love story from two separate worlds. But in the heart of the Bible Belt South, in America of the mid-twentieth century, their young love was forbidden because of their skin color. She was white, lovely, and privileged, growing up in a Tara-like Victorian home. He was Latino, dark-skinned, and working class—the grandson of a Mexican revolutionary who had fought with Pancho Villa.

In The Prince of South Waco, author Tony Castro narrates his sensitive rite-of-passage memoir of growing up Latino in the segregated South in an age when being different in America often brought the cruel, hard reality of the time, along with heartbreak and despair...

Chicano Power: 40th Anniversary Ed.

ISBN-978-1491708231

"Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America is a magnificent tour de force and masterpiece of contemporary American history -- as close to a Chicano Iliad as we will ever have... With Chicano Power,author Tony Castro established himself as the leading historian of a remarkable period of American Latino social, political and cultural change."

Those are the words of the late Carlos Guerra, the activist who co-founded the 1960s Chicano movement in Texas and who later became a columnist writing about Latinos for the San Antonio Express- News. This 40th anniversary commemorative edition celebrates the 1974 publication by E. P. Dutton/Saturday Review Press of Chicano Power, which became a seminal work in the contemporary history of Latinos in America..

Chicano Power

ISBN-978-1491708231

Chicano Power tells the whole story of what in the 21st century has become America's largest ethnic group. It is an inside view of the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s, tracing the Latino progress of disappointment, accommodation, and radicalism, concentrating particularly on the decade after historic civil rights legislation changed the direction of America.

At the heart of the book are Castro's portraits of the men who pushed the Chicano movement forward, by turns uniting and splintering it: Cesar Chavez, the California farm worker organizer; New Mexico firebrand Reies Lopez Tijerina, who tried to redistribute land in the Southwest; Jose Angel Gutierrez, the founder of La Raza Unida; and Denver-based Corky Gonzales, the movement's theorist, who popularized the name Chicano and the concept of Aztlan, the ancient Mexican-Indian name for the American Southwest.

BUY IT