Last Man Standing: Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy

James Curtis

University Press of Mississippi Hardcover $39.95 (400pp) 978-1-4968-0928-5

Last Man Standing is a thoughtful and exhaustive account of the life of Mort Sahl.

With Last Man Standing, James Curtis offers a comprehensive and generally admiring biography of Mort Sahl, a stand-up comedian who brought the improvisational riffs of jazz to political and social commentary.