# The Man They Wanted Me to Be

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- Book: [The Man They Wanted Me to Be](https://www.bookquiver.com/jared-yates-sexton/the-man-they-wanted-me-to-be) ([The Man They Wanted Me to Be.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jared-yates-sexton/the-man-they-wanted-me-to-be.md))
- Authors: [Jared Yates Sexton](https://www.bookquiver.com/jared-yates-sexton)
- Publisher: counterpoint
- ISBN: 978-16-4009-385-0
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2020-04-14
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This provocative, “critically important” memoir of working-class boyhood in rural Indiana offers a searing cultural analysis of toxic masculinity in American culture (NPR). As progressivism...