The Decline of Men: How the American Male Is Getting Axed, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His Future

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HarperCollins, Oct 13, 2009 - Social Science - 320 pages

Why are so many of today's supermen super-clueless ?

Why do so many men prefer the escapist digitized world of Spike TV and Grand Theft Auto to the reality of their own lives?

An entire generation of men is slacking off. The struggle to redefine what being a man means in today's world has resulted in widespread male confusion, leading to rampant malaise, alienation, and disconnection. In this eye-opening exploration of this crisis of contemporary American manhood, award-winning journalist Guy Garcia sheds light on a problem that has wreaked havoc on the American family. Packed with startling statistics, informed by pop culture, and narrated in the entertaining style for which Guy Garcia is known, The Decline of Men is an important wake-up call to the distressing reality of the American male

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About the author (2009)

Guy Garcia is an award-winning journalist, novelist, and multimedia entrepreneur and a former staff writer at Time magazine. He is the founder and CEO of MentaMetrix, Inc., a multicultural research and marketing firm based in New York City. He is the author of the nonfiction book The New Mainstream and two novels, Skin Deep and Obsidian Sky.

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