The Overflowing of Friendship: Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic by Richard Godbeer

The Overflowing of Friendship: Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic

Richard Godbeer

254 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction gender historical history informative slow-paced
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When eighteenth-century American men described "with a swelling of the heart" their friendships with other men, addressing them as "lovely boy" and "dearly beloved," celebrating the "ardent affection" that knit their hearts in "indissoluble bonds ...

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