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Boxing's last Golden Age gets the book it deserves. Kimball's breezy, detailed-packed book . . . provides vivid, knowledgeable accounts of the action. He also draws clear portraits of four fighters whose styles in and out of the ring were so markedly different and shows how interwoven their lives became. --Richard O'Brien, Sports Illustrated , on Four Kings

George Kimball's latest book, Manly Art, is a must-read for boxing fans as Kimball compiles the best of his commentary over the last decade -- George Willis New York Post Manly Art is a book that even the mildest fight fan will snuggle up with and wish for a hundred pages more. Kimball writes about people - colourful, intense people - and does it to a turn -- Vincent Patrick Manly Art offers Big George at his best -- Michael Katz

Manly Art offers Big George at his best -- Michael Katz Manly Art is a book that even the mildest fight fan will snuggle up with and wish for a hundred pages more. Kimball writes about people - colourful, intense people - and does it to a turn -- Vincent Patrick George Kimball's latest book, Manly Art, is a must-read for boxing fans as Kimball compiles the best of his commentary over the last decade -- George Willis * New York Post *

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George Kimball spent a quarter-century as a sports columnist for the Boston Herald and wrote the popular American At Large column in the Irish Times from 1997. In 1985 he was awarded the Nat Fleischer Award for Excellence in Boxing Journalism from the Boxing Writers Association of America. He covered nearly 400 world-title fights in a four-decade long sports writing career and his bestselling book Four Kings has been acclaimed as one of the best books ever written on boxing. Sadly, George Kimball died in July 2011.

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