Political Manhood : : Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform / / Kevin Murphy.
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." Roosevelt asserted that colleges should never "turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men,&...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 13 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Of Mugwumps and Mollycoddles: Patronage and the Political Discourse of the "Third Sex"
- 2. The Tammany Within: Good Government Reform and Political Manhood
- 3. White Army in the White City: Civic Militarism, Urban Space, and the Urban Populace
- 4. Socrates in the Slums: "Social Brotherhood" and Settlement House Reform
- 5. Daddy George and Tom Brown: Sexual Scandal, Political Manhood, and Self- Government Reform
- 6. The Problem of the Impracticables: Sentimentality, Idealism, and Homosexuality
- Epilogue: Red Bloods and Mollycoddles in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index