title: The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man
author:  Brett McKay 
description: "This couple shows that you can be a man without being a jerk." ---MDAA, Toronto Star.com
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  # The Art of Manliness
  
  ## Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man
  
  ![](Image00000.gif)
  
  ## Brett and Kate McKay
  
  ![HOW Books logo with a mustache](Image00001.gif)  
  Cincinnati, Ohio  
  
  
  # DEDICATION
  
  To William Hurst and George Novak, members of the Greatest Generation and men
  who truly lived the art of manliness.
  
  ![William Hurst and George Novak](Image00002.jpg)
  
  William Hurst and George Novak
  
  
  “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how 