{"product_id":"defending-boyhood-how-building-forts-reading-stories-playing-ball-and-praying-to-god-can-change-the-world-9781505137019","title":"Defending Boyhood: How Building Forts, Reading Stories, Playing Ball, and Praying to God Can Change the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eWestern civilization has no more eloquent defender than Anthony Esolen, a man who has counted the cost, and paid it, of leading the way in that defense. Following on his compelling prior volume, \u003ci\u003eDefending Marriage: Twelve Arguments for Sanity\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor Esolen returns, this time in defense of boys and an experience of boyhood that is on the wane, if not extinguished in many quarters of the modern world--and to illuminate the threats our precious sons face from harridans, harpies, and all purveyors and promoters of political correctness and of the misguided and ultimately doomed-though not before it has done much mischief-project of blurring the distinctions between boys and girls. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on his own, in many ways all-American boyhood, Esolen, at times wistfully, at times, playfully, and at times prophetically--in the literal sense of employing the thunder of an Old Testament prophet, details what a good boyhood once was and what it can be again. He does so in chapters inspiringly titled: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Arena to Enter\u003cbr\u003eBrothers to Gather\u003cbr\u003eMountains to Climb\u003cbr\u003eThe Man to Follow\u003cbr\u003eWork to Do\u003cbr\u003eSongs to Sing\u003cbr\u003eEnemies to Slay\u003cbr\u003eLife to Give \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAnthony Esolen prescribes a return to sanity to an insane world. He may not be able to change the world, but enter into the world of boyhood with him and he just might change you and the lives of the boys you love.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tan Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781505137019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.10h x 0.10w x 0.10d","brand":"Anthony Esolen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52959418908853,"sku":"9781505137019","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/defending-boyhood-how-building-forts-reading-stories-playing-ball-and-praying-to-god-can-change-the-world-9781505137019","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}