
Four Kings
The intoxicating and captivating tale of four men who changed the face of boxing from award-winning sports writer George Kimball
$37.99
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2008
Summary
The first book to comprehensively tell the story of how four middleweight boxing giants came to dominate the sport throughout the 1980s. Sports fans and boxing enthusiasts alike will love this compelling study of the resurgence of boxing in the early 1980s - and the four ‘greats’ who effected that change. Four Kings captures the contests, fighters and the period with wonderful perception and vividly conjures up those by-gone smoky and raucous ringside nights in Vegas.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781845963590 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1845963598 |
| Author: | George Kimball |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Mainstream Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2008 |
| Weight: | 476g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 153mm x 233mm |

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Critics Review
An epic poem of a book … a book that lifts the heart
An epic poem of a book … a book that lifts the heart – Frank McCourt
A distinguished and entertaining addition to our library of classic boxing literature – Budd Schulberg
Kimball writes with insight and humour. The bigger the fight, the better he tells it – Tom Hauser,
Thrilling, insightful and often humourous … [Kimball] captures the contests, the fighters and the period with a wonderful perception * The Independent *
An intoxicating, captivating tale of great boxers in a fatally flawed environment * The Herald *
A flawless and singular account of fights that remain potent and important decades after the final bell … Four Kings will, unquestionably, be ranked as a classic boxing book that will take future generations back to those smoky, raucous ringside nights in Vegas * Irish Times *
Fight fans wanting a good read on their summer holidays should grab a copy – Colin Hart * The Sun *
Certainly the best value of any book out there at the minute as well as being comfortably among the best … probably the best boxing book since Kevin Mitchell’s War, Baby * Sunday Tribune *
A born storyteller, [Kimball] throws in enough yarns and anecdotes to fill three or four books * Sunday Business Post *
George Kimball
George Kimball was an award-winning sports writer and covered boxing from the era of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier to the present day. He died in July 2011.
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