| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxvi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
What Do Men Want? -- It's a Guy Thing -- Are You Prepared for Another Life? -- But I'm Not Ready! -- The Need to Know and the Fear of Knowing -- The Eight-Hundred-Pound Gorilla -- The New Map of Adult Life -- The Wife's Nightmare -- What to Do with All This Leftover Life? -- Flourishing Forties -- Why Do I Still Feel Like a Kid? -- The Vanity Crisis -- A Flagrant Freedom -- The Father-Son Midlife Power Struggle -- When You Comin' Home, Son? -- The Dead Father -- The Midlife Delinquent -- Manhood on Trial -- Yuppie Playing Catch-up -- Banker "Excessed" at Home -- The Sole Breadwinner's Insecurities -- The Idealist's Angst -- A Hard Time to Be a Man in His Forties -- Confronting the "False Self" -- Are You What You Smoke? -- "The Big Impossible" -- The Reluctant Father -- First Fatality Jitters -- Moving Up the Mortality Markers -- Honor Among Men -- Manly Sports: More Than Just a Game -- Current Manhood Models -- Married and Mortal -- The Aha! Moment -- The Heart of the Matter -- The Stonewaller's Defense -- The Trouble with Wives -- Fearless Fifties -- Passage to Your Second Adulthood -- The Samson Complex -- Mature Masculinity -- Former Pro Football Star -- Geezer in Graduate School -- Globe-trotting Journalist Turns Gardener -- The Fearless Professor -- Beyond Power -- Barry Diller's Search for Self -- Prospero's Passage -- Welcome to the Age of Influence -- Redirect Your Life Before the Hammer Falls -- The Dark Night of Joe O'Dell -- Destructive Defenses -- The Comeback of Joe O'Dell -- They'll Never Fire Me. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-273) and index. |
| Subject |
Middle-aged men -- United States.
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Masculinity -- United States.
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Maturation (Psychology)
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| ISBN |
0679452737 hardcover |
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