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Monday, March 14, 2005

The manliness of Theodore Roosevelt by Harvey Mansfield

The manliness of Theodore Roosevelt by Harvey Mansfield

Thus, according to TR, manliness is in the main a construction, an individual construction of one’s own will-power. To make the construction, a man should engage in “the manly art of self-defense” against other men, but he should also seek encounters with nature in the form of dangerous animals. He must hunt.