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What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life - one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past and freed him to become the man he was meant to be.

Through his experience of boxing - learning to get hit and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body - McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a way forward: a new masculinity, inside the ring and out of it.

It has many names: Bigfoot...Yeti...Sasquatch. But whatever it is, it’s out there in the woods and leaving a trail of blood and severed heads behind it. For John Moon, a half-mad Indian, it is a spirit that holds the key to his inner self. He worships its power and he’ll kill to protect it. Desperate, exhausted, half-starved, Moon will follow it wherever it goes. For Raymond Jason, killing it has become an obsession. He was the only survivor of a hunting trip to the Rockies where the hunters became the monster’s prey.

In the age of the American Civil War, this story touches on the spirits of the soldiers embroiled in the war. Page truly gives you an insight on what it means to be a soldier. 

Thomas Page McBee fue el primer boxeador transexual en combatir en el Madison Square Garden, pero este audiolibro no va de eso. McBee nació con cuerpo de mujer, siempre se supo hombre, se operó a los 30 años y entendió que el mundo no volvería a ser igual. Porque cambiar de género lo cambia todo. Y de eso sí que trata este audiolibro. 

The Burial of the Guns is a collection of short stories, including one of the same name. Author and one time US Ambassador to Italy, Thomas Nelson Page, offers these stories. Page popularizes the 'plantation tradition' genre of Southern writing, which told of an idealized version of life before the Civil War, with contented slaves working for beloved masters and their families.