‘Every Inch a King’: Some Books About Manhood

‘Every Inch a King’: Some Books About Manhood
The books below urge men, young and old, to pursue “arête,” or excellence. Branislav Nenin/Shutterstock
Jeff Minick
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In my home library are several books about manhood. All of them share one attribute: they begin by pointing out our culture’s antipathy to the concepts of “manhood” and “manliness.”

In the first pages of “Manliness,” for instance, Harvard University professor Harvey Mansfield recounts this incident:

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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