Preface; Introduction; 1 The Culture of Manhood; 2 The Grammar of Manhood; 3 The Bachelor and Other Disorderly Men; 4 The Family Man and Citizenship; 5 The Better Sort and Leadership; 6 The Heroic Man and National Destiny; 7 The Founders' Gendered Legacy.

What role did manhood play in early American Politics? In A Republic of Men, Mark E. Kann argues that the American founders aspired to create a "republic of men" but feared that "disorderly men" threatened its birth, health, and longevity. Kann demonstrates how hegemonic norms of manhood-exemplified by "the Family Man," for instance--were deployed as a means of stigmatizing unworthy men, rewarding responsible men with citizenship, and empowering exceptional men with positions of leadership and authority, while excluding women from public life. Kann suggests that.

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