Harvey Mansfield has got a book forthcoming on manliness. If this excerpt on Teddy Roosevelt is any indication, it’s going to be tremendous. In 2001, in “Harvard’s Book Problem, and Ours,” I noted that Harvard University Press had turned down Mansfield’s proposal for a book on manliness for fear that it would be anti-feminist. Mansfield’s manliness book will be published by Yale University Press. Harvard’s shameful conduct here is proof, if any was needed, that the problems don’t end with Larry Summers. But don’t let the publication controversy overshadow the book itself. This essay is Mansfield at his best, studded with insights from start to finish.