How to Be a Gentleman: A Timely Guide to Timeless Manners

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Author: John Bridges

ISBN-10: 1401603351

ISBN-13: 9781401603359

Category: Etiquette

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How to Be a Gentleman: A Timely Guide to Timeless Manners is the revised and updated edition of the smash-hit How to Be a Gentleman and offers practical advice on being a gentleman in the twenty-first century. Should you take your BlackBerry on vacation? What is the best way to accept a compliment? Is an e-mail an acceptable means of writing a Thank-You note? While the tenets of gracious behavior never change, the situations a gentleman faces do and have changed significantly in the last ten years. In this revised, updated, and expanded version of the bestselling How to Be a Gentleman, Bridges addresses new issues such as airport security, Bluetooth and BlackBerry usage, and appropriate internet and instant message communication. Still featured are topics ranging from how to receive a compliment to how to act at funerals. Certain to be the must-have guide for the modern gentleman, this revised edition will echo the success of its predecessor.

Contents INTRODUCTION....................ixThe Fundamental Things Apply 10 Eternal Truths of the Gentlemanly Life....................xvChapter One A Gentleman Experiences Real Life....................1Chapter Two A Gentleman Gets Dressed....................53Chapter Three A Gentleman Goes to Dinner....................75Chapter Four A Gentleman Says the Right Thing....................94Chapter Five A Gentleman Gives a Party....................117Chapter Six A Gentleman Goes to a Party....................135Chapter Seven A Gentleman and His Friends....................153Chapter Eight A Gentleman Goes to the Office....................179Chapter Nine A Gentleman Gets Equipped....................200Chapter Ten Extreme Etiquette....................212