Hank Greenberg was intelligent but, on the evidence Mr. Rosengren provides, without keen self-knowledge.

WSJ: Book Review: Hank Greenberg

The unconscious comic touches I think of as empty historical montage also play through Mr. Rosengren's pages.

WSJ: Book Review: Hank Greenberg

Mr. Rosengren's book contains a number of anecdotes about Greenberg facing down anti-Semites on the field and in the locker room.

WSJ: Book Review: Hank Greenberg

Louis Fed (who has the potential to be a dissenter, according to Barclays), along with ultra-doves Charles Evans and Eric Rosengren.

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Mr. Evans will easily fill the shoes of Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren, a consistent dove in 2010 who moves off the voting rotation.

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As my colleague Ylan Mui reported earlier, this is partly why Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren worries that our cyclical unemployment problems could become structural and long-lasting.

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One comes away from Mr. Rosengren's biography with a firm notion of Hank Greenberg as a decent human being, a man of integrity and honor, what Jews call a mensch.

WSJ: Book Review: Hank Greenberg

" As Mr. Rosengren recounts: "No one moved.

WSJ: Book Review: Hank Greenberg

" Or, to quote an example from Mr. Rosengren: "Two days after a U.S. B-29 dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Hank collected three hits, including two doubles, in the first game of a twin bill at Briggs Stadium against the Red Sox.

WSJ: Book Review: Hank Greenberg