Introduction: culture, gender, and foreign policy reason
The foreign policy "establishment"
The reproduction of imperial manhood
Heroism, bodies, and the construction of elite masculinity
"Lavender lads" and the foreign policy establishment
The sexual inquisition and the imperial brotherhood
Lavender-baiting and the persistence of the sexual inquisition
John F. Kennedy and the domestic politics of foreign policy
Manhood, the imperial brotherhood, and the Vietnam war
Afterword.