Waller R. Newell is a professor of political science and philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. The editor of the acclaimed anthology What Is a Man?: 3,000 Years of Wisdom on the Art of Manly Virtue, he is a contributor to The Weekly Standard and other publications. A former fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and a John Adams Fellow at the Institute of United States Studies at the University of London, he lives in Ottawa, Canada.

The Code of Man examines and answers a little understood yet pivotal conundrum facing Americans today: why, after winning the Cold War and defeating the evil empire, American men began to wage a war on themselves. Newell uses scores of fascinating sources to explore the variations of how the manly heart has been understood throughout recorded history. He discovers a fundamental consistency to how, until quite recently, our ancestors understood manly honor and pride.