© 2013 by Stephen Mansfield

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Original illustrations by Clint Hansen.

Interior page design by Walter Petrie.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mansfield, Stephen, 1958–

Mansfield’s book of manly men : an utterly invigorating guide to being your most masculine self / Stephen Mansfield.

      pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-59555-373-7

1. Men—Conduct of life. 2. Men Christian theology) I. Title.

BJ1601.M36 2013

248.8'42—dc23

2013016866

Printed in the United States of America

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