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The book that Sparked a National Conversation Boys and men are struggling. Profound economic and social changes of recent decades have many losing ground in the classroom, the workplace, and in the family. While the lives of women have changed, the lives of many men have remained the same or even worsened.In this widely praised book, Richard Reeves, father of three sons, a journalist, and now the president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood. He argues that our attitudes, our institutions, and our laws have failed to keep up. Conservative and progressive politicians, mired in their own ideological warfare, fail to provide thoughtful solutions.Reeves looks at the structural challenges that face boys and men and offers fresh and innovative solutions that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue.
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Richard V. Reeves is the author most recently of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It (Brookings, 2016) . His previous books include All Minus One (with Jonathan Haidt) , and John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand (Atlantic, 2007) .Richard is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. He tweets from @richardvreeves and his website is www.richardvreeves.com. He is also a regular a contributor to New York Times, The Atlantic, National Affairs, Democracy Journal, and the Wall Street Journal. Between 2010 and 2012, Richard was director of strategy to the UK's Deputy Prime Minister. He has also been director of Demos, the London-based political think-tank, principal policy advisor to the Minister for Welfare Reform, research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, among other roles. He is a former European Business Speaker of the Year. A former journalist on the Guardian and Observer newspapers, Richard earned a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Warwick University.
