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The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood Paperback – September 8, 2009

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The Good Men Project: Real Stories from the Front Lines of Modern Manhood is a collection of first-person stories about what it means to be a man in America today -- from Pulitzer winners and Poet Laureates to ex-cons, Pro Football Hall of Famers and just regular guys. The authors describe their defining challenges, losses and triumphs through honest and simple truths, and are hoping to spark conversations about what it means to be a good man today. Reviews "The stories in The Good Men Project are powerful, poignant, funny, and courageous. The book has what few other books dealing with the subject of what it means to be a man in today's society have: balls." - David Kohan, creator and executive producer of Will and Grace "The essays pack unusual power, just plain, healthy, straightforward, emotional power. It's wonderful that such a book exists. Such a grand and truthful rarity, it's in a class by itself." - F. D. Reeve, author of The Toy Soldier and Other Poems and The Blue Cat Walks the Earth

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September 8, 2009
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Good Men Foundation; First Edition (September 8, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 268 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0615316743
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0615316741
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.61 x 9 inches

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Perry is the author of the forthcoming 2-volume novel, AMERICAN MAYHEM--Burn It Down and Blow Up the Ashes, a young adult novel, THE GHOST OF AMELIA PARKHURST, RIVERTON NOIR, the crime "novel of exaggeration and ribaldry. Big, vibrant, laugh-out-loud funny, fearless about sex and violence, which in Riverton can seem like the same thing."
DANGEROUS PLACES, a collection of short fiction, received the 2008 G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize from BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In 2009 the book was named the recipient of the National "Best Books 2009" Award--Fiction & Literature: Short Story Fiction by USA Book News.
He has also published two prior collections of short fiction, SUSPICIOUS ORIGINS (St. Paul: New Rivers Press) and SINGING ON THE TITANIC (Urbana and Chicago: The University of Illinois Press), a book recorded by the Library of Congress for the blind.
His work has twice been read on National Public Radio's " and has three times won P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Awards. He has been named at fellow at Norman Mailer House, Ucross, Yaddo and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. In consecutive years he was named a winner of the annual Boston Fiction Festival prize. His memoir, "Iowa Black Dirt," about being a single parent, won First Prize in a contest sponsored by The Good Men Foundation, and appears in that anthology.
In 2012 he was named a Fellow in Creative Nonfiction by the Massachusetts Arts Council.
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"I am a sucker for real-life heroes, particularly the ones that get overlooked. My profile work grew from my first published piece, THE RACE, which describes my own life altering experience in an athletic event barely worthy of the local paper. Coaches and athletes in the sport of rowing were my initial focus before expanding to mainstream sports like professional basketball. Music, film, and television have proven fertile ground for heroic journeys of a different, but related, kind. Finally, I have continued to write bits and pieces of my own story in an attempt to inspire and enlighten."
Thomas Matlack was Chief Financial Officer of The Providence Journal until 1997. He was the lead investor in Art Technology Group, which reached $5 billion in market capitalization in 2001. He started companies like American Profile and Telephia, before turning to freelance writing. His work has appeared in Rowing News, Boston Common, Boston Magazine, Boston Globe Magazine and Newspaper, Wesleyan, Yale, Tango, and Pop Matters.
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Stephen B. Siegel

a first rate definition of what being a goom man means

Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2009

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As a Urologist, I thought that I knew all there was to know about men. Thanks to the authors of this book, I have learned so much more. It's rare that men get together and talk about these type of issues- most of us run out of things to say after we talk about our favorite sports team and the car we want to buy. It is so important as individuals and, especially at times like these, that we define for ourselves and for our children, what it really takes to be a Good Man. This book breaks down our roles as Fathers, Husbands, Workers, etc and tells amazing stories of people that either are good men or figured out how to become one. We need these examples. We need to see that it is possible to fail initially, but succeed in the end. We need to show ourselves and our children that we get "it." Most of us will never be on the cover of Sports Illustrated or People magazine, but we need to know that getting there certainly doesn't define anyone as good. Fame and fortune are so far down the list of what's important. If you need to have that lesson retold to you, this is the book. Good men come from all walks of life and we all have it in us, its just a matter of finding it. I am thankful that these authors understand the importance of that lesson and are so willing to share their stories. This book is one that truly makes a great gift for anyone, but, really, I think it is a great gift to give yourself.

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Good Men Project

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Jesse Kornbluth writes an excellent chapter in the Good Men Project. I purchased three copies: Kindle plus hard cover editions for friends.

Jesse dares to say what others may have thought but didn't dare express. He's smart about sex and its value in making a man what he becomes. Buy it, and be glad about your personal sexual history.

Diana Blomgren
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I love the idea that the writer(s) had for this book had but having countless men write a paragraph about their struggles from their perfect world doesn't show me much about what it means to be a good man. The book needed one write who gave examples of what he thought makes a good man. I do think that young men (often fatherless) need examples of what makes a good man but I think this book tried to be everything to everyone who wanted to be involved. I hope someone, someday will try this again but tis book is just a mess of one paragraph stories, some of which have litle to do with being a man at all,

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Elliott Fitzgerald

What is your idea of being good?

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2009

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If you want a frame of reference to define your own idea of what it means to be a good father, son, husband, or worker this book is for you. It's tough to be cool discussing showing up for the people in your life or taking care of your responsibilities. Men are much more likely to talk about sports, girls, or money. This book gives men a jumping off point to think about or talk about their own experiences and how they relate to what is really important to them. It also gives hope to men who have gone off track that they can get their lives back together and live with meaning.

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This book is an attempt to begin a badly needed discussion. Its fate is that it is only a beginning.

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2022

I am so disappointed with The Good Men Project. Since I did not have a father or a positive male influence during my growing-up years, I looked forward to inspirational stories and gaining modern insights about men from men. A book about men's experiences written by males is rare. But regrettably, I gave a generous three stars because I took exception when the craft of writing by professional writers and exceptionally talented men bested the subject's seriousness. I just cannot bear writing a negative and discouraging review of a needed and extremely rare book. I will try to be objective.

I welcomed the sheer diversity of all the authors, whether the writers' race, sexuality, social, or economic status. But their thinking and process about the male experience, whether a father, former felon, a worldwide NY Times correspondent or an NFL Hall of Famer, was identical—super macho, super gifted and a so-so storyteller specific to the only a special social class of the male experience in the 21st Century America. Not much said about vulnerability, feeling insecure, incompetent, lost, or plain scared of your own shadow. Is it a significant role model for boys by being the very best, almost perfect, or conquering and competing no matter what? I didn’t relate to the stories of the challenges and confusions of my life as a boomer generation man. I feel bad for young men and boys who read these stories that might not know that growing up to be a tough competitive guy is not the answer.

I was distracted at the beginning. Two of the editors graduated from Harvard and are former venture capitalists. Talk about competition! One of the editors admitted that he had social, educational, and talent advantages that most men don't. So consequently, not surprisingly, most of the essays they chose for this book were written by people who also graduated from Ivy League universities or possess accomplishments that few men have: accomplished authors, screenwriters, producers, and even a former CEO of Corning. This honest admission was self-evident and indisputable 100%, and reflected throughout all the stories unfortunately.

With a couple of exceptions, the chosen authors wrote about their accomplished fathers, grandfathers, and children. A great great grandson author had the audacity to say he was the first of his family to go to Harvard! His predecessors all graduated from Yale! Seriously? My choice in life when I was 19 was not to go to Yale, Harvard, or MIT but a choice between living at home with my belligerent and disturbed older brother or enlisting in the Marines and getting sent to Nam.

I am scratching my head and wondering why I couldn't relate. Was it because I am not a father and from the lower social-economic class with no advantages and no natural talents? Perhaps. But what I do know is that most of us know that Ivy League graduates are at the top of this country's economic and political power systems. Where does a reader who was born into a 19th-century Italian immigrant and ineffective father who died when I was 13, and had a bipolar bullying older abusive brother, with a guilt-ridden Catholic mother with an 8th-grade education fit in? When the stories were not about work or academic success or never even graduating from high school, these authors bragged about how much money they made as a drug dealer or how many women they conquered. Yes, these are legitimate stories, and interesting but I didn’t relate, and they could have been written by women too. Last I heard, drug dealing, and sexual conquests do NOT make a man.

The story of the copper mines of Montana was interesting. It reflected the massive and historical change from a manufacturing to a service economy, leaving bleated small towns behind. The author talked about yet another attorney-father who told stories about the copper mines. However, the attorney never worked in the copper mines or the factory, nor was there any connection with being a man. Yeah, the author had an excellent relationship with his father as he collected data for the story. But the data he collected was more about the economy or the vanishing of small towns' economic vibrancy in American culture of the mid-20th century. It was a financial story of a small American town that could come from a man or woman.

Published in 2010, I believe most of these stories are not unique to men. However, they are legitimate human stories, especially the two men that turned their lives around and now are helping convicted felons stay out of jail. But women are also producers, screenwriters, attorneys, venture capitalists, combat soldiers, correspondents on dangerous assignments, convicted felons, and CEOs. And they had children who were drug addicts and died tragically too. President Biden was the one perfect example of a father-son love relationship who died of cancer. He was grieving so deeply that he could not run for president in the 2016 campaign. That's a man as he showed how vulnerable he was to the world who decided to grieve for his son, instead of running for president!

I do not recommend this book. I am not alone; almost half of the readers who wrote a review scored it a 3 star or less!

The Good Men Project website is much more diverse in thinking and captures the problems and challenges ordinary men like me face. But all is not lost. My money to buy this book went to a good cause the Good Men Project supports.

Read Iron John by Robert Bly is THE book written for men and Bly tells us men exactly why. It is still eerily current with today's men's problems that have gotten worse since Bly's days a generation ago.

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