Richard Reeves is president of the American Institute for Boys and Men, which he founded in 2023 to raise awareness of the problems of boys and men and advocate for effective solutions.
His 2022 book, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It, was described as a “landmark” in The New York Times and named a book of the year by both The Economist and The New Yorker.
Richard is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, where he previously directed the Future of the Middle-Class Initiative and the Center on Children and Families. His research focuses on boys and men, inequality, and social mobility.
Books in order of publication:
John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand – 2008
80 Minute MBA: Everything You’ll Never Learn at Business School – 2009
Saving Horatio Alger: Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream – 2014
Does Character Matter?: Essays on Opportunity and the American Dream – 2015
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It – 2018
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It – 2022
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