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Fatherhood: A History of Love and Power

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“Superbly intelligent…[a] rewarding Sapiens-style big history.” —The Times (London)

A bold and original history of the invention and transformation of masculinity’s most important institution, from the Bronze Age to the contemporary “crisis of men”, told through a collective portrait of emblematic fathers who have helped to define our fundamental ideas of familial love, political power, and what it means to be a man.


What makes a father? At least since the beginning of the written historical...