Sen. Josh Hawley’s long-awaited book—'Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs'—isn’t even out yet, but the reviews are in. “I hear they’re making the book out of glass, so it will be as fragile as his ‘masculinity,’” one reviewer wrote.
promises to showcase why manliness, however Hawley defines it, is an essential tenet of American society. Hawley argues that, without manhood, society will crumble. In the preview blurb of the book, Hawley invokes everything from the founding fathers, to Greek and Roman philosophers, to Jesus of Nazareth, to Theodore Roosevelt as part of his case for what manliness is and why we need it.
The concept is rooted in conservative rhetoric. The GOP has been on a tirade of claiming men don’t act like men anymore, as culture wars over gender and sexuality percolate through the political soil. That’s bait to his base—and fuel for those who loathe the senator. Many framed the idea of Hawley writing a book on manliness as ironic, pointing to the senator’s behavior at the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection—when footage captured him running away from rioters, just hours after he raised a fist in solidarity with them earlier that day., the book has a beefy 3.8 stars out of 5. But there, reviewers seem to be throwing in some higher reviews in jest.
One four-star review, which can only logically be read in the style of Donald Trump, reads: “All the best people are reading about Josh Hawley’s manhood and how he showed America how to take up running to protect his health. He even waves his fist in the air like a strongman, let me tell you. His hands are almost as bigly as mine!”“You can tell he’s good with his hands the way he scribes all those sentences. No REAL man would be able to put this down.
Ahead of publishing, Hawley has done the typical media blitz, teasing his book on friendly networks like Fox News. But even those short clips have drawn pushback online. In reviews from
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