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Wrong Man For The Job

John Blakeslee
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A chronicle on modern manhood written by someone spectacularly unqualified.

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    Former CIA officer turned writer, policy researcher, and dad. Essays on masculinity and family estrangement. Wrong man for the job, trying anyway.

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