Men: this book is a time-out from the battle. As men, we tend to postpone our own peace of mind and delay personal happiness until the job is done, the task is complete. Every day is a new battle, and another chance for us to prove ourselves worthy. I am more than enough transparent and plenty vulnerable as I dig deep into 'manly' topics. My hope is that my vulnerability, my transparency, my 'weakness' will inspire you. How I 'measured up' as a man, according to what society said, was what almost killed me. Men, we are in the midst of a national crisis. Not only is masculinity under the radar, it is being redefined by women. Men are more depressed than ever before; and killing themselves at an alarming rate. For me, there were three areas that formed the foundation that I built my life upon: The Illusion of the American Dream, The Misconception of Manhood, and the wrong view of God. Man-Made in America, Memoirs of an American man's Pursuit of Happiness. By Mitch McMullen

The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm than Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him as part of the city's working homeless and with a toddler son. Motivated by the promise he made to himself as a fatherless child to never abandon his own children, the two spent almost a year moving among shelters, "HO-tels," soup lines, and even sleeping in the public restroom of a subway station. Never giving in to despair, Gardner made an astonishing transformation from being part of the city's invisible poor to being a powerful player in its financial district. More than a memoir of Gardner's financial success, this is the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle of men abandoning their children. Mythic, triumphant, and unstintingly honest, The Pursuit of Happyness conjures heroes like Horatio Alger and Antwone Fisher, and appeals to the very essence of the American Dream.

"The first, definitive recasting of George Washington in the context of eighteenth-century practices and ideals of masculinity. It answers the fundamental question that no biography has ever asked in such a direct way: What do we know, really, about Washington as an actual eighteenth-century Virginia upper-class male?"--

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