Author: Bly, Robert

In the Grimm Brothers fairy tale "Iron John," a mentor or "wild man" guides a young man through the eight stages of male growth. In this re-issued classic best-seller, Bly - a mentor himself to the worldwide men's movement - uses the story to address the devastating effects of remote fathers and the disappearance of male initiation rites in our culture, and to remind us of long-forgotten images of a deep and vigorous masculinity centered in feeling, protective of the young.