Forget that new age sensitivity crap. Forget the testosteronal beer-and-babes approach of your typical Budweiser commercial. The Von Hoffman Brothers, in their Big Damn Book of Sheer Manliness, have taken the tree of
manhood and stripped it down to the bare
roots. It’s surprising how deep and strong those roots are.
Taking the most simple and direct approach, the Brothers Von Hoffman define the transcendental truths of our
gender, covering major league topics like life, women, fighting, and politics. Their logic appeals to the neanderthalic hunter gatherer in us all: we are a gender of explorers. We are driven by a need to learn about everything around us. The next 200+ pages are devoted to the
subjects that men revel in, ranging from sports, booze, movies, and the
manly love of goofing off.
Essentially, this is a book of
history punctuated with pearls of wisdom by Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson, and John Wayne. Subjects cover everything near and dear to us as a gender, including the history of Jack Daniels Sour Mash, Kingsford Charcoal, Worcestershire Sauce, the movie Sparticus, Lockheed aircraft, and Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, the Rembrandt who created our American masterpiece “A Bold Bluff”, better known as the “Dogs Playing Poker” picture.
Every man will find something appealing in this book. Whether you are a hormonially challenged
high schooler or a refined concert pianist, there is something for you to discover (or rediscover) within these pages. Further still, this celebration of manhood does not come at the expense of the fairer sex. Indeed, women (the kind that both challenge us as well as accept our manly quirks) are held up high as the Earth Mothers they truly are. This is most certainly is not a coffee table book. The Big Damn Book of Sheer Manliness is a rite of passage.
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