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Political Manhood : Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia University Press
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover13;
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Of Mugwumps and Mollycoddles: Patronage and the Political Discourse of the 8220;Third Sex8221;
- 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: 8220;Social Brotherhood8221; 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 theTwentieth Century and Beyond
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.