[PDF.00dw] The Overflowing of Friendship: Love between Men and the Creation of the American Republic

The Overflowing of Friendship: Love between Men and the Creation of the American Republic

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 | #1304988 in Books |  2013-12-16 |  2013-12-16 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.65 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Eye opening and interesting.|By Ruth F.|Very interesting book. If nothing else, it highlights the care which must be taken not to read our cultural assumptions into other cultures. The time period covered in this book is most certainly another culture than 21st century America. It does highlight how much our current culture misses out on genuine, non-sexual friendships among th| ||"A sophisticated analysis of sources that have long confused historians. Offering a thoughtful window onto the world of early American men, it demonstrates that sympathy and affection were important qualities for the founding fathers." (John Gilbert McCurdy <

When eighteenth-century American men described "with a swelling of the heart" their friendships with other men, addressing them as "lovely boy" and "dearly beloved," celebrating the "ardent affection" that knit their hearts in "indissoluble bonds of fraternal love," their families, neighbors, and acquaintances would have been neither surprised nor disturbed.

Richard Godbeer’s groundbreaking new book examines loving and sentimental friendships among men in...

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