The Book of Man, William J. Bennett
The Book of Man, William J. Bennett
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The Book of Man
Readings on the Path to Manhood

Author: William J. Bennett

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Unabridged: 20 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/04/2011

Synopsis

New York Times best-selling author William J. Bennett uses stories, essays, historical vignettes, and contemporary profiles to explore and explain what it means to be a man. Fashioning men has never been easy, but today it seems particularly tough. Boys need heroes to embody the everlasting qualities of manhood: honor, duty, valor, and integrity. Without such role models, boys will naturally choose perpetual childhood over the rigors of becoming a man-as many women, teachers, coaches, employers, and adults in authority can quickly attest. Too many boys and men waste time in pointless and soulless activities, unmindful of their responsibilities, uncaring in their pursuits. Have we forgotten how to raise men, how to lead our boys into manhood?

In The Book of Man, Bennett charts a clearer course, offering a positive, encouraging, uplifting, realizable idea of manhood, redolent of history and human nature, and practical for contemporary life. Like his classic, The Book of Virtues, Bennett uses profiles, stories, letters, poems, and myths to bring his subject to life, defining what a man should be, how he should live, and to what he should aspire in several key areas of life.

About William J. Bennett

Dr. William J. Bennett is one of America’s most influential and respected voices on cultural, political, and educational issues. Host of The Bill Bennett Show podcast, he is also the Washington Fellow of the American Strategy Group. He is the author and editor of more than twenty-five books. Dr. Bennett served as the secretary of education and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities  under  President  Ronald  Reagan  and  as  director  of  the  Office  of  National  Drug  Control  Policy  under  President  George  Herbert  Walker Bush.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ann on November 07, 2011

Great Tool for Raising Men with Character and Purpose If you liked William Bennett’s Book of Virtues, you are sure to like his newest book, The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood. This beautifully bound book has 500+ pages of inspiring and educational stories. He shares statistics on boyhoo......more

Goodreads review by Brian on August 18, 2022

This type of book is full of quotes and stories and nuggets about being a better and more righteous version of yourself. The quotes provided become the type of things that motivate and discipline a man to serve God and others as well as to accomplish his pursuits.......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on May 28, 2020

Very good book if you like history stuff, but a really good read for Men to read or teenage boys to learn what being a man is all about.......more

Goodreads review by Abdullah on April 03, 2025

This book was too American for my appetite. It talks about the art of manliness and how men should be acting in their life. So, it is a collection of speeches, short stories, letters and acts. The book is divided into six chapters: One: Man in War, Two: Man at Work, Three: Man in Play, Sports, and L......more

Goodreads review by Chainsaw on December 30, 2022

With so many fathers today passing up the responsibility to raise up their sons in a constructive way, and with society's positive reinforcement of "heroes" as role models seemingly having gone the way of the dinosaur, the author provides an outstanding collection of brief historical biographies, wo......more

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