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

by Kevin Murphy (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2008

  $97.24

  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.