The Code of Man: Love Courage Pride Family Country"In many ways," Waller R. Newell writes, "young men today are in deep spiritual trouble. But they are also yearning for a way back to the noblest ideals of American manhood." The Code of Man represents a deep and thought-provoking effort to help guide contemporary men back to those ideals, as embodied in what Newell calls the five paths to manliness: love, courage, pride, family, and country. At the dawn of the twenty-first century, he argues, we have grown so concerned about the roles of sex and violence in our society that we have forgotten the older virtues: romance and eros, courage and patriotism, the blend of love and bravery it takes to raise a family. In The Code of Man, he exhorts us to look to the traditional virtues of the past for inspiration. Contrasting the time-honored lessons of traditional voices -- Shakespeare and Abraham Lincoln, Jane Austen and Teddy Roosevelt -- with the chaotic signals emanating from sources like Eminem, video games like Thrill Kill, and Goth culture, Newell illustrates how we have come to associate courage with violence, "transgression" with wisdom. Most disturbing, he argues, the essential triumph of Western culture may have left us with a building reserve of untapped aggressive energy, and no consensus about how to channel it -- a situation that threatens to weaken us at the core. Seamlessly weaving together literary references from a diverse body of sources, Waller Newell offers an open-eyed look at what it means to be a man in America today, and a clarion call to recapture our traditions if we are to preserve our character as a society ... and avoid catastrophe. |
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... thing to have a keen , fine intellectual development in a nation , to produce orators , artists , successful business men ; but it is an infinitely greater thing to have those solid qualities which we group together under the name of ...
... things , my wife , Jacqueline Etherington Newell , was my chief partner , providing generous amounts of insight , needed criti- cism , and inspiration . I would like to dedicate this book to the memory of my brother , Richard Newell ...
... things to buy and always have a snarl at the ready . The approved cultural style is one of detachment , narcissism , and casual , unfeeling sex . As the poet Phyllis Gotlieb puts it in a way that sums up this culture of disaffection ...
... thing as male or fe- male behavior by nature , and this can be done by exposing them to the more idiosyncratic excesses of the sexual contrarian . Sexual plasticity is taken to imply freedom from other bourgeois hang - ups , like ...
... thing as human nature and no intrin- sic distinction between coarseness and delicacy . We are infinitely mal- leable and , once we liberate ourselves from the shackles of middle - class morality , free from any sexual restraints . What ...
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