Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States

Author/Contributor(s):	McCurdy, John Gilbert
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Date:	12/15/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In 1755 Benjamin Franklin observed "a man without a wife is but half a man" and since then historians have taken Franklin at his word. In Citizen Bachelors, John Gilbert McCurdy demonstrates that Franklin's comment was only one side of a much larger conversation. Early Americans vigorously debated the status of unmarried men and this debate was...