Fifty-five percent of the men who voted in 2024 voted for Donald Trump, by the Pew Research Center's count, and the polls the author read do not ask what those men meant by strong. This independent biography sets the dictionary meaning of macho and the older ideals of manhood beside the dated record, from a Queens boyhood and a Selective Service file to the courts and Butler, Pennsylvania. Each chapter ends on one of four questions, and the last gives the author's own answer, labelled as his. It takes no side in any election.