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How to Be a Gentleman: A Contemporary Guide to Common Courtesy | 
 enlarge | Author: John Bridges
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 20517
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 4.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 1558535969
Dewey Decimal Number: 395.142
EAN: 9781558535961
ASIN: 1558535969
Publication Date: 1998
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Should you take a business call on your cellular phone during a dinner date? How do you act at a funeral? What is the best way to accept a compliment? When do you say, "I'm sorry"? John Bridges answers these questions and more in a book for men that combines Emily Post and Miss Manners without being snobbish, boring, or intimidating. This book is an indispensable guide for men of all ages who aspire to become gentlemen.
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 An excellent guide December 16, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
At first I was afraid this book would be full of platitudes and one-liners on how to be a gentleman but as I read it I began to understand how the book all comes together. I very much enjoyed the reasoning behind some of the "do's and don'ts" listed in the book and while much of the book just seems to be common courtesy, how common ARE some of the courtesies any more?
An excellent book and one I would recommend to just about any gentleman or potential gentleman.
Book for a gentlemen. September 28, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I think this is a good book for people that does know how to be a gentlemen but I found I knew most of the stuff already.
Pithy and full of useful advice, but not stuffy February 5, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I bought this book about eight years ago, and I reread it just about every year. The advice is straightforward and often witty, and the book remains one of my favorites on etiquette.
I have since purchased or received the other books in the Gentlemanners series and enjoyed those as well.
Although you can read this book in lass than a couple of hours (and I recommend reading the book), you will be out of luck if you are looking for information quickly. There is no index, so you are limited to the general guidance of the table of contents.
How to Be a Gentleman January 15, 2007
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Excellent for every high school graduate to read and adopt.
on being kind December 27, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This splendid little Rutledge Hill Press publication is best read as the first in the Press' 'Gentlemanners Books' series.
Based on the conviction that being a gentleman is not a matter of following a strict code of behavior but rather of making life easier and more pleasant for others, the book presents nuggets of advice to real and would-be gentlemen under ten headings. Each begins with 'A Gentleman ...' . The remainder of the chapter titles follows:
Experiences Real Life
Gets Dressed
Goes to Dinner
Says the Right Thing
Gives a Party
Goes to a Party
and His Friends
Goes to the Office
Gets Equipped
The tenth chapter is entitled 'Extreme Etiquette: a Gentleman Faces the Really Big Challenges.
I only recently stumbled upon this series and have already moved on to John Bridges' collaborative work with Bryan Curtis called A GENTLEMAN GETS DRESSED UP. WHAT TO WEAR, WHEN TO WEAR IT, HOW TO WEAR IT.
Matters of etiquette are frequently debatable and always subject to societal change. Moreover, there will always be an old-school aroma clinging to any work that uses the words 'etiquette' and 'gentleman' without disparagement. For this reason, critics of the book who hotly dismiss this or that declaration by Bridges have misunderstood the genre. Bridges accomplishment is not to have given the last word on gentlemanly behavior, but rather to have given one solid line of approach within which any single pronouncement is open to adjustment or even rebuttal.
I am exploring ways to place copies of this little volume into the hands of my male colleagues in a way - as a gentleman would strive to do - that does not suggest that they are unwashed cannibals in their present condition.
HOW TO BE A GENTLEMAN is that good. I look forward to reading through this book's sequels.
However a gentleman doesn't gush, so I'll stop here.
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