Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. SONS -- 1 The First Duties of a Southern Boy -- 2 Raising ''Self Willed'' Sons -- PART TWO. GENTLEMEN AND SCHOLARS -- 3 The Educational Aspirations of Southern Families -- 4 Creating Southern Schools for Southern Sons -- 5 The (Mis)Behaviors of Southern Collegians -- 6 The Southern Code of Gentlemanly Conduct -- 7 Acting the Part of a Gentleman -- PART THREE. PATRIARCHS -- 8 Supervising Suitors -- 9 Winning a Wife -- 10 Professions and the ''Circle about Every Man'' -- 11 Slaveholding and the Destiny of the Republic's Southern Sons -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.