Gift ideas for that rare dad who reads Boston Globe

13.06.10

I introduce this up because you have exactly one week to get something for Father’s Day for dear old Dad if he still exists, or for yourself if, like me, you enjoy books that men would read if only people would pull up insulting them. Let’s begin with history: sports history, in fact. An excellent history of the Amalgamated States could be written through the prism of baseball. Politics, economics, demographics, business, race and labor relations, transportation, agriculture, manufacturing, technology, communications, war, and doctrine — it’s all reflected in the development of baseball. Howard Bryant’s huge and truthfully magnificent “The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron” (Pantheon, $29.95) explores almost every one of those aspects for the decades it covers. It is also, and most importantly, an crafty character study and account of the life, career, triumphs, and tribulations of Henry Aaron, one of baseball’s greatest players. If I were big White Chief’s father, it would be first on my wish list.

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