Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States

Citizen Bachelors: Manhood and the Creation of the United States

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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...