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Index
Title Page
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
ONE - WHO IS THE PERFECT MAN?
FROM ADONIS TO HERCULES
THE RECOVERY OF LOST MANHOOD
THE CHALLENGE OF SANDOW’S BODY
ASSAULTS ON MANHOOD
LOOKING AND TOUCHING
MODERN GLADIATORS
TWO - THE MANLY ART OF ESCAPE
ORIGINS OF AN ILLUSIONIST
THE ROLE OF THE MAGICIAN
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF JULIAN ELTINGE
FROM DIME-MUSEUM MAGICIAN TO ESCAPE ARTIST
THE HANDCUFF KING
THE PRISON DEFIER
MARVELS AND MYSTERIES OF THE IMPRISONED MALE BODY
CHALLENGES OF MODERNITY
“NEARLY DYING FOR A LIVING”
MASCULINE VERSUS FEMININE MAGIC
AN UNSOUGHT CHALLENGE
THREE - “STILL A WILD BEAST AT HEART”
BURROUGHS’S BELATEDNESS
MANLINESS IN THE PAGES OF SYSTEM
MASCULINE REVITALIZATION AND THE REASSERTION OF HIERARCHY
BURROUGHS’S LITERARY EXPERIMENT
WILD BOYS AND MEN
PRIMATE RELATIONS
TARZAN AND THE REDISCOVERY OF WHITE MALE IDENTITY
THE TARZAN MACHINE
CONCLUSION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ALSO BY JOHN F. KASSON
NOTES
INDEX
Copyright Page
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