Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: The Crisis of Masculinity and the Problem of Identity 1
5. Part One: Recovering Masculinity in the 1960s
6. 1. American Dreams, Gendered Nightmares 27
7. 2. Cooling It with James Baldwin 60
8. Part Two: “The Richness of Life Itself” in the 1970s
9. 3. Low-Rent Tragedies of Beset Manhood 91
10. 4. True Men and Queer Spaces in Truman Capote’s Answered Prayers 112
11. Part Three: Cold Warriors of the 1980s
12. 5. Sexual Fallout in Tim O’Brien’s The Nuclear Age 139
13. 6. Don DeLillo in the American Kitchen 175
14. Conclusion: How to Be a Man 205
15. Notes 213
16. Works Cited 247
17. Index 269