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WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MANRaising up men has never been easy but today is seems particularly tough nbspThe young and old need heroes to embody the eternal qualities of manhood honor duty valor and integrity nbspIn The Book of Man William J Bennett points the way offering a positive encouraging uplifting realizable idea of manhood redolent of history and human nature and practical for contemporary lifeUsing profiles stories letters poems essays historical vignettes and myths to bring his subject to life The Book of Man defines what a man should be how he should live and to what he should aspire in several key areas of life war work leisure and more nbspWhether we take up the sword the plow the ball the gavel our children or our Bibles says Bennett we must always do it like the men we are called to be The Book of Man shows how.
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William J. Bennett served as Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George H. W. Bush and as Secretary of Education and Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under President Reagan. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy from Williams College, a doctorate in political philosophy from the University of Texas, and a law degree from Harvard. He is the author of such bestselling books as The Educated Child, The Death of Outrage, The Book of Virtues, and the two-volume series America: The Last Best Hope. Dr. Bennett is the host of the nationally syndicated radio show Bill Bennett's Morning in America. He is also the Washington Fellow of the Claremont Institute and a regular contributor to CNN. He, his wife, Elayne, and their two sons, John and Joseph, live in Maryland.
