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Rediscovering America's heroes: a decades-long war on masculinity is reducing the American man to a sniveling shadow of his former greatness. Real Men by R. Cort Kirkwood recovers man's glorious heroic past.(Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans to Know and Admire)(Book review)

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Real Men: Ten Courageous Americans to Know and Admire, by R. Cort Kirkwood, Nashville, Tennessee: Cumberland House Publishing, 2006, 182 pages, paperback. (For ordering information, see the ad on page 6.)

Quite unexpectedly, a television series has illustrated just how far out of favor masculinity has fallen among the cultural elite. The show is Battlestar Galactica and in its current iteration has garnered its fair share of praise. Peter Suderman's laudatory essay in National Review is similar to the praise heaped on the show by others. Galactica, Suderman says, is "a show about spaceships and killer robots that is also arguably the most potent, dramatically ...

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