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The Camps Promising to Turn You—or Your Son—Into an Alpha Male | The New Yorker

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At the Men of War Crucible, you bear-crawl through rivers. At Warrior Week, you dig your own grave. At the Squire Program, your teen-ager can take part, too.

Save this story Save this story Among the written works credited to Donald Trump is the foreword to a book from 2024 called “Alpha Kings.” The book’s author, Nick Adams, is a bearded and broad-faced former deputy mayor of a suburb of Sydney, where he tried and failed to get rid of the local pigeon population. In the foreword, Trump calls Adams, who is now an American citizen and an internet personality, “one of my favorite authors,” and praises his commitment to “fighting for the qualities that make alpha males so special.” Adams loves the restaurant chain Hooters, “ice cold domestic beers,” a

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