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An entertaining read, the book is short on [[American]] political history but long in academic arguments. Professor Mansfield sees manliness in athletes (too many to mention, he says), and also in a few women such as [[Margaret Thatcher]] (a favorite of right-of-center professors). | An entertaining read, the book is short on [[American]] political history but long in academic arguments. Professor Mansfield sees manliness in athletes (too many to mention, he says), and also in a few women such as [[Margaret Thatcher]] (a favorite of right-of-center professors). | ||
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Revision as of 03:20, August 2, 2021
Manliness is a book by conservative-leaning Harvard Professor Harvey Mansfield, who identifies and extols this trait which has been recognized since Ancient Greece.
An entertaining read, the book is short on American political history but long in academic arguments. Professor Mansfield sees manliness in athletes (too many to mention, he says), and also in a few women such as Margaret Thatcher (a favorite of right-of-center professors).
The book is excellent but has notable omissions: it admittedly avoids the issue of homosexuality, and it predates the rise of the very manly Donald Trump. The book has only a very superficial reference to Phyllis Schlafly and fails to recognize the significance of the defeat of the Equal Rights Amendment.