Mansfield's Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self - Hardcover

Mansfield, Stephen

 
9781595553737: Mansfield's Book of Manly Men: An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self
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ISBN 10: 1595553738 ISBN 13: 9781595553737
Verlag: Thomas Nelson, 2013

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Witty, compelling, and shrewd, Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men is about resurrecting your inborn, timeless, essential, masculine self.

The Western world is in a crisis of discarded honor, dubious integrity, and faux manliness. It is time to recover what we have lost. Stephen Mansfield shows us the way. Working with timeless maxims and stirring examples of manhood from ages past, Mansfield issues a trumpet call of manliness fit for our times. 

In Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men, you’ll see that:

  • This book is about doing. It is about action.
  • It is about knowing the deeds that comprise manhood and doing those deeds.
  • Habits have to be formed, and actions have to be aligned with the grace received.

“My goal in this book is simple,” Mansfield says. “I want to identify what a genuine man does?the virtues, the habits, the disciplines, the duties, the actions of true manhood?and then call men to do it.”

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Stephen Mansfield is the New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln's Battle with God, The Faith of Barack Obama, Pope Benedict XVI, Searching for God and Guinness, and Never Give In: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Beverly.

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MANSFIELD'S BOOK OF MANLY MEN

An Utterly Invigorating Guide to Being Your Most Masculine Self

By STEPHEN MANSFIELD

Thomas Nelson

Copyright © 2013 Stephen Mansfield
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-59555-373-7

Contents

Foreword by Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (ret.)..............................xiii
PART I.....................................................................
Gentlemen, We Begin .......................................................3
The Manly Maxims...........................................................15
Mansfield's Manly Maxim #1.................................................17
Mansfield's Manly Maxim #2.................................................23
Mansfield's Manly Maxim #3.................................................29
Mansfield's Manly Maxim #4.................................................37
The Four Manly Maxims......................................................41
PART II....................................................................
Show Yourself a Man........................................................45
Honor......................................................................49
Legacy.....................................................................61
Friendship.................................................................73
Blessing...................................................................87
Quest......................................................................101
Humor......................................................................111
Restoration................................................................123
Self-Education.............................................................139
Wildness...................................................................149
Integrity..................................................................161
Forgiveness................................................................175
Suffering..................................................................187
Vision.....................................................................197
Humility...................................................................211
Sacrifice..................................................................221
Presence...................................................................231
Epilogue: The Story of Taylor..............................................241
PART III...................................................................
Fifty Quotes for Manly Men.................................................249
The Ten Essential Books for Manly Men......................................265
The Ten Essential Movies for Manly Men.....................................269
Acknowledgments............................................................273
Notes......................................................................277
About the Author...........................................................281


CHAPTER 1

GENTLEMEN, WE BEGIN ...


Let me start by telling you about the night I becamea man.

Years ago, I was traveling through the Middle East to do reliefwork in a troubled country. A problem arose with my visa. If all hadgone according to plan, I would have flown into Damascus, travelednine hours through the Syrian Desert, crossed the Euphrates River,and entered Iraq. I had done it several times before. On this particulartrip, I never got out of Damascus.

I know this sounds like the start of a great adventure. It wasn't. Ispent my days at the Damascus Sheraton eating bad hamburgers andarguing about Syrian football with the doorman like I knew enoughto have an opinion. Now don't misunderstand: I'm going to tell this tomy grandchildren like I'm Lawrence of Arabia, but you should knowit wasn't true. I was bored. I ate pistachio nuts by the pound. I readeverything I could find that was printed in English. I even got fittedfor a bisht—the elegant outer robe Arab men sometimes wear. I hadit made, put it on once, decided I looked regal, and then never wore itagain. These were not my most productive days.

Fortunately, a friend of mine who was a member of the Syrian parliamentheard I was stranded and came to my rescue. We'll call himNadeem. He was a cool breeze of Arab hospitality. He took me to meetofficials who could help me, feasted me at the finest restaurants in thecity, and insisted that I go with him to his Orthodox church, thoughhe knew I would not understand a word. When I reluctantly went withhim that next Sunday morning, I found language no barrier. Hugs fromlittle old Syrian ladies told me everything I needed to know. Nadeemknew they would. He was a good friend to me during those days.

It was because of Nadeem that I ended up on the roof of a hotel indowntown Damascus with a dozen Arab men. That's where I becamea man.

Nadeem knew I was lonely, and he also wanted to show off hisAmerican friend, so he decided to host a small party. I urged him notto bother, but he insisted as though all honor depended upon it. Severalnights later, I found myself atop a soaring Damascus hotel surroundedby high-ranking government officials, their submachine gun–totingbodyguards, several expensively dressed businessmen, and one man ina shemagh—the traditional Arab cloth headdress—who looked to meas though he had just come in from the desert. Of course, the desertwas about three blocks away.

It was a stunningly clear Syrian night. The tents on that rooftopseemed to breathe with the evening breezes drifting in from the sand.It was mystical, and I wanted desperately to be still and quiet to takeit all in.

Nadeem had other plans. He began by eagerly introducing me tohis friends, and then he insisted I recount my life since birth along witheverything he and I had ever discussed. This got the party started, meaningwe spoke to each other as well as we could—which was badly—whilewe ate cashews the size of a man's thumb and bowls of watermelon. Someof the older ones smoked the nargillah, the intriguing Arab water pipeoften called a hookah. All were gracious and interested, but there wasonly so much we could manage to communicate through our limitedknowledge of each other's languages, and the conversation inevitablylagged.

That's when the more traditional-looking man wearing the shemaghleaned forward and asked a question. There was great wonder inhis face, as though he was inquiring about one of the great mysteriesof God.

It turned out he was.

"A son. Do you have?" he asked. I'm telling you every man on thatroof stopped what he was doing and turned to hear my answer.

"I do," I replied.

"Ah." He grew...

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Verlag
Thomas Nelson
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
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1595553738
ISBN 13 
9781595553737
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