Lost.Disaffected.Adrift.Checkedout.Dislocated.Withdrawn.Whatishappeningwithsomanyofourboysandmen?Economistslamentinexplicabledropsinmalelaborforceparticipation.Publichealthofficialspointtodisproportionatelymale“deathsofdespair“fromsuicideoroverdose.Parentsseetheirsonsstrugglingandworrywhatitmeansfortheirfuture.InOfBoysandMen,RichardReevesprovidesagroundbreakingdiagnosisofthecontemporarymalemalaise.Manyoftherapideconomic,social,andculturalchangesoverrecentdecadesposenewchallengestoboysandmen--especiallythoseatthebottomoftheeconomicladder.Blackboysandmenfacethemostacutechallengesofall.Politiciansonbothleftandrighthavefailedtoengageconstructivelywiththeproblemsofboysandmen.Viewsonwhatitmeanstobeamaninthetwenty-firstcenturyhavehardenedalongpartisanlines.ButasReeveswrites:“Wecanholdtwothoughtsinourheadatonce.Wecanbepassionateaboutwomen’srightsandcompassionatetowardvulnerableboysandmen.“Drawingonyearsofdeepresearchaswellashispersonalexperienceasafatherofthreesons,Reevesoffersacompellingdiagnosisoftheproblemsofboysandmen--andaboldsetofsolutions.
