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American Men by Jordan Ritter Conn is a work of deeply reported narrative nonfiction about contemporary masculinity in the United States. Rather than treating men as a single social problem or defending a fixed ideal of manhood, Conn follows four men whose lives expose different pressures created by gender expectations, violence, race, sexuality, class, trauma, military culture, family, and social belonging. The book centers on Ryan, an amateur MMA fighter from the Akwesasne Mohawk territory; Gideon, a West Point graduate and former baseball star associated with conventional white masculine status; Joseph, a Seattle law student confronting childhood sexual trauma; and Nate, a Black trans man seeking stability in rural Ohio. Through alternating, intimate narratives, the book examines how each man measures himself against inherited ideas of strength, control, desire, and worth. Its purpose is less to offer a theory of men than to show how masculinity is lived, performed, resisted, and revised over time.