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Camp Chippewa, 1962. Nelson Doughty, age 13, public outcast and overachiever, is the bugler, sounding the reveille proudly every day. Yet this particular summer marks the start of an uncertain and tenuous companionship with a popular boy known as Jonathan. Over time Nelson, irrevocably scarred from the Vietnam Conflict, becomes scoutmaster of Camp Chippewa while Jonathan marries, divorces, and becomes his father's business into an extremely profitable company. So when something unthinkable happens at a camp get-together with Nelson as scoutmaster and Jonathan's teenage grandson and daughter-in-law as campers, the aftermath demonstrates the depths - and the limits - of Nelson's selflessness and bravery. The Hearts of Men is a sweeping, panoramic book about the slippery definitions of good and bad, family and fidelity, the obstacles and rewards of lifelong friendships, the bounds of morality - and redemption.
