| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

K. A. Cuordileone. Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War. New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xxiii, 282. $24.95.

K. A. Cuordileone offers a fine addition to the crowded field of studies on gender and sexuality during the Cold War. Initiated partly by nonacademicians like Barbara Ehrenreich and Garry Wills, that field now includes a wealth of scholarship, most recently by Robert D. Dean and David K. Johnson. Cuordileone's book is distinctive in part for its focus on manhood, although manhood is too slippery to be isolated from gender and sexuality, as she well knows. Indeed, in the end Cuordileone identifies a "gender imaginary through which Americans process the political world" (p. 243), setting "manhood" itself aside. Thus this book often goes over familiar ground. This reader groaned at the prospect of another scholar (I have done so myself) beating up on Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.'s The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (1949).

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