Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform - Kevin Murphy - Books - Columbia University Press - 9780231129961 - July 2, 2008
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Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform

Kevin Murphy

Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform

In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt warned against becoming "too fastidious, too sensitive to take part in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world." This work reveals how the popular ideals of American masculinity coalesced around these two distinct categories.


320 pages, 13 illus.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released July 2, 2008
ISBN13 9780231129961
Publishers Columbia University Press
Pages 320
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 25 mm   ·   566 g

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