Product Description: As Bill Clinton said in his second inaugural address, “The divide of race has been America’s constant curse.” In Honor Bound, David Leverenz explores the past to the present of that divide. He argues that in the United States, the rise and decline of white people’s racial shaming reflect the rise and decline of white honor...read more

Product Description: Between the Civil War and World War I, David Leverenz maintains, the corporate transformation of American work created widespread desire for upward mobility along with widening class divisions. In his view, several significant narrative constructs, notably the daddy’s girl and the daddy’s boy, emerge at the intersection between paternalist practices and more democratic possibilities for self-advancement...read more

Discusses nineteenth century attitudes toward masculine social roles, and examines how these influenced male and female writers

Discusses nineteenth century attitudes toward masculine social roles, and examines how these influenced male and female writers

Product Description: Book by Leverenz, David