Manly Men

I've been meaning to mention this all week, but haven't gotten the chance: a Boston Globe article about Harvey Mansfield's new book, Manliness. I haven't read the book, but I've read a little of Mansfield's stuff. I suspect it's worth the purchase price. Excerpt from article:

Mansfield's definition of manliness is maddeningly imprecise: Basically, he says, you know it when you see it. Mansfield sees it in firefighters, warriors, and great thinkers, but also, interestingly, in Margaret Thatcher. It is a ''quality of the soul," he writes in one typically opaque passage. ''A manly man asserts himself," he writes in another, ''so that he and the justice he demands are not overlooked."

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