Tony Castro
Author and Historian in Los Angeles, CA
TONY CASTRO is a Harvard and Baylor University-educated historian and bestselling author of several books, including the landmark civil rights history 'Chicano Power: The Emergence of Mexican America,' which Publishers Weekly acclaimed as “brilliant… a valuable contribution to the understanding of our time.”
Tony's newest book, 'Mantle: The Best There Ever Was,' will be released May 22, 2019, by Rowman & LIttlefield. It completes his Mickey Mantle Trilogy that includes 'Mickey Mantle: America's Prodigal Son'and 'DiMag & Mick: Sibling Rivals, Yankee Blood Brothers.'
He is also the author of critically recognized biographies of Ernest Hemingway, 'Hemingway and The Lost Generation '(Lyons Press), and of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, 'Gehrig & The Babe: The Friendship and The Feud'(Triumph Books).
Tony is currently working on a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte.