Harvey C. Mansfield is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of
Government, Harvard University.
"Thoughtful, vexing, and ultimately irresistible book . . . neither
a chest-thumping celebration of masculinity nor a scientific snore
on 'biological maleness.'"-O TheOprah Magazine
"It's a subtle exploration about the virtues and vices of the
thymotic urge."-Frank Rich, New York Times
"Quaint."-Maureen Dowd, New York Times
"This is a book no-one else could have written . . . few American
professors can be so unsackably eminent that they can afford to
stroll through such a minefield of political incorrectness. . . .
This is a fascinating book - part co-ed, part philosophy treatise,
part cri de coeur. Unthinking liberals will dismiss it;
thinking radical feminists will hate it. The rest of us (including
thinking liberals, but perhaps excluding humourless ones) will find
its jokes deliciously dry, and its arguments subtle and
strong."-Noel Malcolm, The Sunday Telegraph
"Mansfield draws on a rich variety of sources . . . a treatise on
how American society reached the point that it has."-Shane Hegarty,
The Irish Times
"Harvey C Mansfield's Manliness . . . [is an] urgent and
timely clarion call. So you nerds and sensitive, liberal,
left-leaning wimps out there, listen carefully to what Mansfield, a
political scientist of some note, has to say. . . . Save the
future, assert your manliness, and go forth to rule the
world."-Ziauddin Sardar, New Statesman
Selected as a 2007 AAUP University Press Book for Public and
Secondary School Libraries
"Annoying at times (often!), but never uninteresting, this book has much of importance to say."-Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan
"A work of thought as well as a provocation, Manliness deserves to be widely read, argued over, and pondered."-David Bromwich, Yale University
"Mansfield argues that manliness-in its combination of
stubbornness and rationality-provides a ground for political life.
His work is a thoughtful attempt to move us to think more clearly
about who we are, and about the future of our liberal
society."-Mary Nichols, Baylor University
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