Following on hisDefending Marriage,Esolen returns, this time in defense of boys and an experience of boyhood that is on the wane, if not extinguished in many quarters of the modern world. He masterfully illuminates the threats our precious sons face from all manner of purveyors and promoters of political correctness, too often hiding in plain sight. And he tackles head-on the misguided and ultimately doomed—though not before it has done much mischief—project of blurring the distinctions between boys and girls.

Drawing on his own all-American boyhood, Esolen, at times wistfully, at times, playfully, and at times prophetically—in the literal sense of employing the thunder of an Old Testament prophet—details what a good boyhood once was and what it can be again.

Here, Esolen shows the parents of boys how raise sons who will:

• Enter the arena and fight for what is right
• Join with a band of brothers to defend the weak
• Sing songs that give glory to God and honor to honorable men
• Slay the enemies of God, Family, and Country
• Give—and protect—life, especially children and family.