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Maclean’s Books: Pulling no punches

The fighter’s life of George Chuvalo, the craziness before JFK was killed, and the life of Raymond Chandler

Our latest book reviews:

Chuvalo: A Fighter’s Life, The Story Of Boxing’s Last Gladiator, by George Chuvalo with Murray Greig, reviewed by Jonathan Gatehouse
Would You Kill The Fat Man? The Trolley Problem And What Your Answer Tells Us About Right And Wrong by David Edmonds, reviewed by Jonathan Gatehouse
Dallas 1963, By Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis, reviewed by Jaime Weinman
The Great & Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms (How One Man Scorched the Twentieth Century But Didn’t Mean To), by Ian Thornton, reviewed by Mike Doherty
A Mysterious Something In the Light: The Life of Raymond Chandler, by Tom Williams, reviewed by Brian Bethune

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