Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

The book of man : readings on the path to manhood / William J. Bennett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Nashville, Tenn. : Thomas Nelson, c2011.Description: xxix, 546 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1595552715
  • 9781595552716
Subject(s):
Contents:
Let's bring back heroes -- Man in war -- Man at work -- Man in play, sports, and leisure -- Man in the polis -- Man with woman and children -- Man in prayer and reflection --
Let's bring back heroes -- Man in war. Profile : Donovan Campbell ; Saint Crispin's Day Speech by William Shakespeare ; Response to the Archbishop of Canterbury by Colin Powell ; "Character of the Happy Warrior" by William Wordsworth ; "The Campaigns of Alexander the Great" by Alexander the Great, told by Arrian, the Roman historian ; Profile : Joshua Marcellino ; "Concord hymn" by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; "This was their finest hour" by Winston Churchill ; David and Goliath : Samuel 17:1-58 ; Profile : Rick Rescorla ;Funeral Oration by Pericles ; "Before Action" by W. N. Hodgson ; "Battle is a Joyous Thing" by Jean de Brueil ; The Navy SEAL Creed ; Profile : Nathan Burckenthal ; From "Bivouac of the Dead" by Theodore O'Hara ; Profile : Red Falvey ; "Be Ye the Avengers of Noble Blood" by William the Conqueror ; Profile : Alvin York ; Remarks on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day by Ronald Reagan ; From The Apology by Plato ; From "The Soldier's Faith" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ; "Of Man" by Thomas Hobbes ; "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" by Winston Churchill ; Ares : Greek God of War by Homer ; Profile : John Leone ; From Beowulf by an unknown Saxon poet, translated by Francis B. Gummere ; "In Flanders Fields" by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae ; Horatius at the Bridge by Livy ; "Duty, Honor, Country" by General Douglas MacArthur ; War sonnets by Rupert Brooke ; Profile : Audie Murphy -- Man at work. Profile : Terry Toussaint ; "Work" by Eliza Cook ; "The Plough Boy" by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith ; "How Do You Tackle Your Work?" by Edgar A. Guest ; The Gift of God : Ecclesiastes 3:10-15 ; From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana ; The Parable of the Talents : Matthew 25:14-30 (also in Luke 19:12-28) ; "The Strenuous Life" by Theodore Roosevelt ; "No Man Is Happy If He Does Not Work" by Theodore Roosevelt ; Saving time by Seneca ; Profile : Incwell ; From Works and Days by Hesiod ; From The Sea Wolf by Jack London ; Profile : Coach Ken ; A Humorist's Confession by Mark Twain ; "Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; The Spiritual Value of Work by Mark Judge ; From The Future of the American Negro by Booker T. Washington ; From Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington ; From The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin ; Charmides by Plato ; Profile : George Gershwin ; Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier from American Patriot's Almanac by William J. Bennett and John T. Cribb ; From Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville ; Profile : Michel Faulkner ; Selections from Middlemarch by George Eliot ; The Four Chaplains of World War II from American Patriot's Almanac by William J. Bennett and John T. Cribb ; From Paradise Lost by John Milton ; From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus Washington Greely ; "Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey" ; Inaugural address at Edinburgh University by Thomas Carlyle ; On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by William Ellery Channing ; Profile : David Aikman ; Emerson on Labor by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Some Fruits of Solitude by William Penn ; Selections from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius ; Pensées by Blaise Pascal --
Man in play, sports, and leisure. Profile : "Pistol" Pete Maravich ; "Do You Fear the Wind?" by Hamlin Garland ; "It is a Pleasant Day" by Peter Parley ; "The Answer" by Grantland Rice ; "Playing the Game" by anonymous ; From "The Quitter" by Robert W. Service ; Profile : Eddie Aikau ; From "The American Boy" by Theodore Roosevelt ; A President and His Leisure by Theodore Roosevelt ; Coin Collecting by the Numissmatist ; Coney Island by The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine ; A Nation's Pastime by A. G. Spalding ; "Leisure" by William Henry Davies ; On Gardening by Francis Bacon ; Finding Troy by Heinrich Schliemann ; A Father to His Son, Upon Leaving for Collete by John D. Swain ; Tragedy on K2 ; Abe Lincoln Wrestles Jack Armstrong by John G. Nicolay and John Hay ; From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ; The Traffic Guard by Christopher Beach ; The Art of Fencing by Louis and Regis Senac ; A Day at the Ancient Olympic Games by Anacharsis of Scythia ; Learning Languages for Fun by Benjamin Franklin ; From "An Autumn Effect" by Robert Louis Stevenson ; Filling Days and Finding Relaxation by Pliny the Younger ; Angler Grover Cleveland by A. M. Stoddart ; Profile : Milan High School and the 1954 Indiana State Championship ; Leo Tolstoy the Chess Player by Edward Winter ; Profile : Cal Ripken Jr., the iron man of baseball ; In Defense of Sports by William J. Bennett ; Buster Douglas defeats Mike Tyson, Tokyo, 1990 ; The National Game by Charles A. Peverelly ; Practice make perfect ; Profile : Aaron Rodgers ; Little Bob's First Bass by Will H. Dilg ; Hunting the Grisly by Teodore Roosevelt ; 1980 U. S. ice hockey team miracle on ice ; On Leisure by Seneca ; The thrilla in Manila ; Prepared for a Rain by Will H. Dilg ; Profile : Mario Andretti ; Piers Paul Read's Alive : The Story of the Andes Survivors by William J. Bennett -- Man in the polis. "Not Yours to Give" by David Crockett ; Profile : Zuhdi Jasser ; The Athenian oath ; A Politician and a Hero by Richard J. Hinton ; From Politics by Aristotle ; "A Nation's Strength" by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Profile : a Navy SEAL ; "Of the Beginning of Political Societies" by John Locke ; Profile : Dave Pereda ; National Greatness by Pericles ; "Love of Country" by Sir Walter Scott ; From De Officiis (On Duties) by Marcus Tullius Cicero ; "Power Tends to Corrupt" by Lord Acton ; Lectures and Miscellanies by Henry James ; Hávamál ; From A Man and His Money by Harvey Reeves Calkins ; From "Acres of Diamonds" by Russell Conwell ; The Duties of Citizenship by William Jennings Bryan ; From The Royal Art by William Jennings Bryan ; The Ethics of Politics by Bishop Charles B. Galloway ; "Duties of American Citizenship" by Theodore Roosevelt ; Profiles of law enforcement ; Reflections on the Revolution of France by Edmund Burke ; Civil and Political Association by Alexis de Tocqueville ; The Political Duties of Christian Men and Minsters by Rev. J. S. Smart ; From "The Capacity for Greatness" by Theodore Roosevelt ; Profile : Álvaro Uribe Vélez ; Good Citizenship by Grover Cleveland ; Good Citizenship Dependent Upon Great Citizens by William Jewett Tucker ; Cato the Younger by Plutarch ; Taking Command by George Washington ; From Arthur James Balfour by Bernard Alderson ; From Foundations of the Republic by Calvin Coolidge ; Duty by Horatio Kitchener ; Profile : Jaime Escalante ; A Story of Civic Improvement by Benjamin Franklin ; The Story of Cincinnatus by James Baldwin ; Compromise by Henry Clay Sr. ; Five Keys to Democratic Statesmanship by Paul Johnson "Hello, Freedom Man" by Ronald Reagan ; Choosing Just Men by Noah Webster ; Heroes of Science by Albert Ross Vail and Emily McClellan Vail ; "To Defend and Enjoy His Own" by Daniel Webster ; Profle : Marco Rubio ; Profile : Ray Sorensen and the Freedom Rock ; What You Can Do for Your Country by John F. Kennedy ; In Harm's Way for Others by George P. Little ; Irrationally Patriotic by G. K. Chesterton ; Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum address --
Man in prayer and reflection. The Our Father (or the Lord's Prayer) ; The Glory Be ; A child's grace ; "We Thank Thee" by Rebecca Weston ; Profile : Os Guinness "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" ; Tuning the Soul by Robert Murray M'Cheyne ; Unspoken Prayer by anonymous ; "May I Know Thee More Clearly" by Saint Richard ; Harry S. Truman's daily prayer ; "On Self-improvement" by Lord Robert Baden Powell of Gilwell ; Matins (Morning Prayer) by Robert Herrick ; A Prayer for Guidance by George Washington ; A Prayer for Peace by Abraham Lincoln ; A Prayer in Dark Times by Franklin D. Roosevelt ; A Prayer of Gratitude by John F. Kennedy ; A Prayer for a Meaningful Life by Jimmy Carter ; A Prayer for Healing by Ronald Reagan ; A Prayer to Help Others by George H. W. Bush ; A Prayer for the Departed by George W. Bush ; "The Examined Life" by Plato ; Aids to Reflection by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; "A Student's Prayer" by Saint Thomas Aquinas ; "That Which...Had Been Long Looked For" by George Müller ; An Instrument of Peace by Saint Francis of Assisi ; Profile : Saint Damien de Veuster ; Call to Prayer by General Robert E. Lee ; Times That Try Men's Souls by Thomas Paine ; "Forms of Prayer at Sea" by William Wordsworth ; "The Pilgrim Fathers" by William Wordsworth ; The Amidah ; A soldier's prayer ; Thanksgiving Proclamation by George Washington ; "My God Shall Raise Me Up" by Sir Walter Raleigh ; From The Power of Prayer by Samuel Prime ; "Matins" by George Herbert ; Eulogy for Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Simpson ; "In Prayer" edited by Arthur Bennett ; Prayer and the Individual Life by Henry B. F. MacFarland ; Four Thoughts on Prayer by Saint Augustine of Hippo ; From Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo ; Prayer of Saint Benedict ; Homily 6 on Prayer by Saint John Chrysostom ; "Universal Prayer" by Alexander Pope ; National Day of Prayer by Abraham Lincoln ; A Prayer Under the Pressure of Violent Anguish by Robert Burns ; Begin the Day with Prayer by Edward McKendree Bounds ; From "Praying Men Are God's Mightiest Leaders" by Edward McKendree Bounds ; "A Prayer in Darkness" by G. K. Chesterton ; Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral by Rev. Billy Graham ; "Let My Thoughts Abide in Thee" by Robert Louis Stevenson ; New Year's Prayer by Samuel Johnson ; Resolutions by Samuel Johnson ; The martyrdom of Polycarp of Smyrna ; "The Upward Look" by Boethius ; "Prayer of Columbus" by Walt Whitman ; Litany of Humility by Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val ; Praying in Faith by Martin Luther ; What a Great Gift We Have in Prayer by Martin Luther ; A Prayer for a Good Death by Thomas More ; The Anima Christi ; Agnus Dei ; Man : at the end ; Obituary ; Funeral meditation.
Man with woman and children. Profile : Chris Scott ; "When You Are Old" by W. B. Yeats ; "Down by the Salley Gardens" by W. B. Yeats ; Robert E. Lee by Orison Swett Marden ; "Love Among the Ruins" by Robert Browning ; Duff Cooper's letter to Diana, his future wife ; Leo Tolstoy's letter to his fiancée, Valeria Arsenev ; "A Father's Gift to His Son on His Becoming an Apprentice" by anonymous ; Advice to Boys by Rev. Lewis Johnston ; Profile : Nolan Ryan ; From She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ; Excerpt from Bleak House by Charles Dickens ; Two poems by Robert Browning ; From Don Juan by Lord Byron ; Penelope by Homer ; Telemachus by Homer ; George Washington to Martha ; Pierre Curie by Marie Curie ; "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe ; Antony and Cleopatra by John Dryden ; Abraham Lincoln and Grace Bedell ; Marcus Cato by Plutarch ; The Influence of a Father by John Stuart Mill ; The Farmer and His Sons by Aesop ; Things to Tell Your Children or Grandchildren by Charles Sykes ; Fatherhood by Ronald Reagan ; The Best Things in Life by Theodore Roosevelt ; Teddy Roosevelt with his Children by Ernest Ruse ; Jonathan Edwards with His Children by S. E. Dwight ; "On My First Sonne" by Ben Jonson ; "A Boy of Much Promise" by Calvin Coolidge ; "Bone of My Bones" : Genesis 2:19-24 ; Finding a good wife : Proverbs 31:10-31 ; From Sketches of Young Couples by Charles Dickens ; What is Love? by George Eliot ; True and False Manliness by James Freeman Clarke ; From Canal Boy to President by Horatio Alger ; Thomas Carlyle's Advice to Young Men by Thomas Carlyle ; Are You Well Bred? by The American Magazine ; Profile : David Gelernter ; Courtship and Matrimony by Rober Morris ; From Self-control, Its Kingship and Majesty by William George Jordan ; A Father's Legacy by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler ; "A Manly Boy" by Andrew Sloan Draper ; From The Marriage Guide for Young Men by George W. Hudson ; Letter to a Sickly Child by Sydney Smith ; Response to a Fan Letter of Sorts by Charles Dickens ; A Father's Prayer by Douglas MacArthur ; "Only a Dad" by Edgar A. Guest ; Letter to a Bereaved Husband by Samuel Johnson ; Nathaniel Hawthorne's letter to his daughter ; Profile : "A Shau Valley" ; Thomas Jefferson's letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith ; Dr. Johnson and his father ; Profile : Bill Phillips --
Summary: This book explores the life of men in various contexts: work, play, prayer, war, home, and friendship. Using essays and stories, myths and history, to bring life to the subject, Bennett defines what a man should be, how he should live, and to what he should aspire.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 808.8035 B472 Available 33111005191172
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN

Raising up men has never been easy, but today is seems particularly tough.  The young and old need heroes to embody the eternal qualities of manhood: honor, duty, valor, and integrity.  In The Book of Man , William J. Bennett points the way, offering a positive, encouraging, uplifting, realizable idea of manhood, redolent of history and human nature, and practical for contemporary life.

Using profiles, stories, letters, poems, essays, historical vignettes, and myths to bring his subject to life, The Book of Man defines what a man should be, how he should live, and to what he should aspire in several key areas of life: war, work, leisure, and more.  "Whether we take up the sword, the plow, the ball, the gavel, our children, or our Bibles," says Bennett, "we must always do it like the men we are called to be." The Book of Man shows how.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Let's bring back heroes -- Man in war -- Man at work -- Man in play, sports, and leisure -- Man in the polis -- Man with woman and children -- Man in prayer and reflection --

Let's bring back heroes -- Man in war. Profile : Donovan Campbell ; Saint Crispin's Day Speech by William Shakespeare ; Response to the Archbishop of Canterbury by Colin Powell ; "Character of the Happy Warrior" by William Wordsworth ; "The Campaigns of Alexander the Great" by Alexander the Great, told by Arrian, the Roman historian ; Profile : Joshua Marcellino ; "Concord hymn" by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; "This was their finest hour" by Winston Churchill ; David and Goliath : Samuel 17:1-58 ; Profile : Rick Rescorla ;Funeral Oration by Pericles ; "Before Action" by W. N. Hodgson ; "Battle is a Joyous Thing" by Jean de Brueil ; The Navy SEAL Creed ; Profile : Nathan Burckenthal ; From "Bivouac of the Dead" by Theodore O'Hara ; Profile : Red Falvey ; "Be Ye the Avengers of Noble Blood" by William the Conqueror ; Profile : Alvin York ; Remarks on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day by Ronald Reagan ; From The Apology by Plato ; From "The Soldier's Faith" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ; "Of Man" by Thomas Hobbes ; "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson ; "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" by Winston Churchill ; Ares : Greek God of War by Homer ; Profile : John Leone ; From Beowulf by an unknown Saxon poet, translated by Francis B. Gummere ; "In Flanders Fields" by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae ; Horatius at the Bridge by Livy ; "Duty, Honor, Country" by General Douglas MacArthur ; War sonnets by Rupert Brooke ; Profile : Audie Murphy -- Man at work. Profile : Terry Toussaint ; "Work" by Eliza Cook ; "The Plough Boy" by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith ; "How Do You Tackle Your Work?" by Edgar A. Guest ; The Gift of God : Ecclesiastes 3:10-15 ; From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana ; The Parable of the Talents : Matthew 25:14-30 (also in Luke 19:12-28) ; "The Strenuous Life" by Theodore Roosevelt ; "No Man Is Happy If He Does Not Work" by Theodore Roosevelt ; Saving time by Seneca ; Profile : Incwell ; From Works and Days by Hesiod ; From The Sea Wolf by Jack London ; Profile : Coach Ken ; A Humorist's Confession by Mark Twain ; "Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; The Spiritual Value of Work by Mark Judge ; From The Future of the American Negro by Booker T. Washington ; From Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington ; From The Way to Wealth by Benjamin Franklin ; Charmides by Plato ; Profile : George Gershwin ; Chuck Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier from American Patriot's Almanac by William J. Bennett and John T. Cribb ; From Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville ; Profile : Michel Faulkner ; Selections from Middlemarch by George Eliot ; The Four Chaplains of World War II from American Patriot's Almanac by William J. Bennett and John T. Cribb ; From Paradise Lost by John Milton ; From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus Washington Greely ; "Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey" ; Inaugural address at Edinburgh University by Thomas Carlyle ; On the Elevation of the Laboring Classes by William Ellery Channing ; Profile : David Aikman ; Emerson on Labor by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Some Fruits of Solitude by William Penn ; Selections from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius ; Pensées by Blaise Pascal --

Man in play, sports, and leisure. Profile : "Pistol" Pete Maravich ; "Do You Fear the Wind?" by Hamlin Garland ; "It is a Pleasant Day" by Peter Parley ; "The Answer" by Grantland Rice ; "Playing the Game" by anonymous ; From "The Quitter" by Robert W. Service ; Profile : Eddie Aikau ; From "The American Boy" by Theodore Roosevelt ; A President and His Leisure by Theodore Roosevelt ; Coin Collecting by the Numissmatist ; Coney Island by The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine ; A Nation's Pastime by A. G. Spalding ; "Leisure" by William Henry Davies ; On Gardening by Francis Bacon ; Finding Troy by Heinrich Schliemann ; A Father to His Son, Upon Leaving for Collete by John D. Swain ; Tragedy on K2 ; Abe Lincoln Wrestles Jack Armstrong by John G. Nicolay and John Hay ; From War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ; The Traffic Guard by Christopher Beach ; The Art of Fencing by Louis and Regis Senac ; A Day at the Ancient Olympic Games by Anacharsis of Scythia ; Learning Languages for Fun by Benjamin Franklin ; From "An Autumn Effect" by Robert Louis Stevenson ; Filling Days and Finding Relaxation by Pliny the Younger ; Angler Grover Cleveland by A. M. Stoddart ; Profile : Milan High School and the 1954 Indiana State Championship ; Leo Tolstoy the Chess Player by Edward Winter ; Profile : Cal Ripken Jr., the iron man of baseball ; In Defense of Sports by William J. Bennett ; Buster Douglas defeats Mike Tyson, Tokyo, 1990 ; The National Game by Charles A. Peverelly ; Practice make perfect ; Profile : Aaron Rodgers ; Little Bob's First Bass by Will H. Dilg ; Hunting the Grisly by Teodore Roosevelt ; 1980 U. S. ice hockey team miracle on ice ; On Leisure by Seneca ; The thrilla in Manila ; Prepared for a Rain by Will H. Dilg ; Profile : Mario Andretti ; Piers Paul Read's Alive : The Story of the Andes Survivors by William J. Bennett -- Man in the polis. "Not Yours to Give" by David Crockett ; Profile : Zuhdi Jasser ; The Athenian oath ; A Politician and a Hero by Richard J. Hinton ; From Politics by Aristotle ; "A Nation's Strength" by Ralph Waldo Emerson ; Profile : a Navy SEAL ; "Of the Beginning of Political Societies" by John Locke ; Profile : Dave Pereda ; National Greatness by Pericles ; "Love of Country" by Sir Walter Scott ; From De Officiis (On Duties) by Marcus Tullius Cicero ; "Power Tends to Corrupt" by Lord Acton ; Lectures and Miscellanies by Henry James ; Hávamál ; From A Man and His Money by Harvey Reeves Calkins ; From "Acres of Diamonds" by Russell Conwell ; The Duties of Citizenship by William Jennings Bryan ; From The Royal Art by William Jennings Bryan ; The Ethics of Politics by Bishop Charles B. Galloway ; "Duties of American Citizenship" by Theodore Roosevelt ; Profiles of law enforcement ; Reflections on the Revolution of France by Edmund Burke ; Civil and Political Association by Alexis de Tocqueville ; The Political Duties of Christian Men and Minsters by Rev. J. S. Smart ; From "The Capacity for Greatness" by Theodore Roosevelt ; Profile : Álvaro Uribe Vélez ; Good Citizenship by Grover Cleveland ; Good Citizenship Dependent Upon Great Citizens by William Jewett Tucker ; Cato the Younger by Plutarch ; Taking Command by George Washington ; From Arthur James Balfour by Bernard Alderson ; From Foundations of the Republic by Calvin Coolidge ; Duty by Horatio Kitchener ; Profile : Jaime Escalante ; A Story of Civic Improvement by Benjamin Franklin ; The Story of Cincinnatus by James Baldwin ; Compromise by Henry Clay Sr. ; Five Keys to Democratic Statesmanship by Paul Johnson "Hello, Freedom Man" by Ronald Reagan ; Choosing Just Men by Noah Webster ; Heroes of Science by Albert Ross Vail and Emily McClellan Vail ; "To Defend and Enjoy His Own" by Daniel Webster ; Profle : Marco Rubio ; Profile : Ray Sorensen and the Freedom Rock ; What You Can Do for Your Country by John F. Kennedy ; In Harm's Way for Others by George P. Little ; Irrationally Patriotic by G. K. Chesterton ; Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum address --

Man in prayer and reflection. The Our Father (or the Lord's Prayer) ; The Glory Be ; A child's grace ; "We Thank Thee" by Rebecca Weston ; Profile : Os Guinness "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" ; Tuning the Soul by Robert Murray M'Cheyne ; Unspoken Prayer by anonymous ; "May I Know Thee More Clearly" by Saint Richard ; Harry S. Truman's daily prayer ; "On Self-improvement" by Lord Robert Baden Powell of Gilwell ; Matins (Morning Prayer) by Robert Herrick ; A Prayer for Guidance by George Washington ; A Prayer for Peace by Abraham Lincoln ; A Prayer in Dark Times by Franklin D. Roosevelt ; A Prayer of Gratitude by John F. Kennedy ; A Prayer for a Meaningful Life by Jimmy Carter ; A Prayer for Healing by Ronald Reagan ; A Prayer to Help Others by George H. W. Bush ; A Prayer for the Departed by George W. Bush ; "The Examined Life" by Plato ; Aids to Reflection by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; "A Student's Prayer" by Saint Thomas Aquinas ; "That Which...Had Been Long Looked For" by George Müller ; An Instrument of Peace by Saint Francis of Assisi ; Profile : Saint Damien de Veuster ; Call to Prayer by General Robert E. Lee ; Times That Try Men's Souls by Thomas Paine ; "Forms of Prayer at Sea" by William Wordsworth ; "The Pilgrim Fathers" by William Wordsworth ; The Amidah ; A soldier's prayer ; Thanksgiving Proclamation by George Washington ; "My God Shall Raise Me Up" by Sir Walter Raleigh ; From The Power of Prayer by Samuel Prime ; "Matins" by George Herbert ; Eulogy for Abraham Lincoln by Matthew Simpson ; "In Prayer" edited by Arthur Bennett ; Prayer and the Individual Life by Henry B. F. MacFarland ; Four Thoughts on Prayer by Saint Augustine of Hippo ; From Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo ; Prayer of Saint Benedict ; Homily 6 on Prayer by Saint John Chrysostom ; "Universal Prayer" by Alexander Pope ; National Day of Prayer by Abraham Lincoln ; A Prayer Under the Pressure of Violent Anguish by Robert Burns ; Begin the Day with Prayer by Edward McKendree Bounds ; From "Praying Men Are God's Mightiest Leaders" by Edward McKendree Bounds ; "A Prayer in Darkness" by G. K. Chesterton ; Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral by Rev. Billy Graham ; "Let My Thoughts Abide in Thee" by Robert Louis Stevenson ; New Year's Prayer by Samuel Johnson ; Resolutions by Samuel Johnson ; The martyrdom of Polycarp of Smyrna ; "The Upward Look" by Boethius ; "Prayer of Columbus" by Walt Whitman ; Litany of Humility by Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val ; Praying in Faith by Martin Luther ; What a Great Gift We Have in Prayer by Martin Luther ; A Prayer for a Good Death by Thomas More ; The Anima Christi ; Agnus Dei ; Man : at the end ; Obituary ; Funeral meditation.

Man with woman and children. Profile : Chris Scott ; "When You Are Old" by W. B. Yeats ; "Down by the Salley Gardens" by W. B. Yeats ; Robert E. Lee by Orison Swett Marden ; "Love Among the Ruins" by Robert Browning ; Duff Cooper's letter to Diana, his future wife ; Leo Tolstoy's letter to his fiancée, Valeria Arsenev ; "A Father's Gift to His Son on His Becoming an Apprentice" by anonymous ; Advice to Boys by Rev. Lewis Johnston ; Profile : Nolan Ryan ; From She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith ; Excerpt from Bleak House by Charles Dickens ; Two poems by Robert Browning ; From Don Juan by Lord Byron ; Penelope by Homer ; Telemachus by Homer ; George Washington to Martha ; Pierre Curie by Marie Curie ; "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe ; Antony and Cleopatra by John Dryden ; Abraham Lincoln and Grace Bedell ; Marcus Cato by Plutarch ; The Influence of a Father by John Stuart Mill ; The Farmer and His Sons by Aesop ; Things to Tell Your Children or Grandchildren by Charles Sykes ; Fatherhood by Ronald Reagan ; The Best Things in Life by Theodore Roosevelt ; Teddy Roosevelt with his Children by Ernest Ruse ; Jonathan Edwards with His Children by S. E. Dwight ; "On My First Sonne" by Ben Jonson ; "A Boy of Much Promise" by Calvin Coolidge ; "Bone of My Bones" : Genesis 2:19-24 ; Finding a good wife : Proverbs 31:10-31 ; From Sketches of Young Couples by Charles Dickens ; What is Love? by George Eliot ; True and False Manliness by James Freeman Clarke ; From Canal Boy to President by Horatio Alger ; Thomas Carlyle's Advice to Young Men by Thomas Carlyle ; Are You Well Bred? by The American Magazine ; Profile : David Gelernter ; Courtship and Matrimony by Rober Morris ; From Self-control, Its Kingship and Majesty by William George Jordan ; A Father's Legacy by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler ; "A Manly Boy" by Andrew Sloan Draper ; From The Marriage Guide for Young Men by George W. Hudson ; Letter to a Sickly Child by Sydney Smith ; Response to a Fan Letter of Sorts by Charles Dickens ; A Father's Prayer by Douglas MacArthur ; "Only a Dad" by Edgar A. Guest ; Letter to a Bereaved Husband by Samuel Johnson ; Nathaniel Hawthorne's letter to his daughter ; Profile : "A Shau Valley" ; Thomas Jefferson's letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith ; Dr. Johnson and his father ; Profile : Bill Phillips --

This book explores the life of men in various contexts: work, play, prayer, war, home, and friendship. Using essays and stories, myths and history, to bring life to the subject, Bennett defines what a man should be, how he should live, and to what he should aspire.

Powered by Koha