How to Be a Gentleman Revised and Expanded: A Timely Guide to Timeless Manners

by John Bridges

Overview

In this updated and revised edition, How to be a Gentleman is a useful handbook that teaches men manners, attitude, appropriate dress, and social skills.

Despite how different things are today, the principles of good manners remain the same. This resourceful book teaches men how to distinguish themselves from the rest of the crowd.

In How to Be a Gentleman, some tips and guidelines include:

• How to respond to those with whom you disagree
• When and where it is appropriate to use your cellphone
• How to dress for various formal events
• Rules for conducting yourself at the gym
• How to engage respectfully with different cultural and religious contexts

How to be a Gentleman is a thoughtful gift for birthdays and graduations, or seasonal occasions such as easter baskets, stocking stuffers, and holiday gift giving. This version includes how to communicate, shop, and meet new people through cell phones and computers.

Becoming a gentleman is a lifelong exercise in refining etiquette, social interaction, and personal discipline. It all continues here.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401603885
Publisher:	Harper Celebrate
Publication date:	04/26/2022
Series:	The GentleManners Series
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	175,281
Product dimensions:	4.51(w) x 8.05(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

John Bridges, author of How to Be a Gentleman, is also the coauthor, with Bryan Curtis, of seven other volumes in the best-selling GentleManners series. He is a frequent guest on television and radio news programs, always championing gentlemanly behavior in modern society. Bridges has appeared on the Today Show, the Discovery Channel, and CBS Sunday Morning, and has been profiled in People magazine and the New York Times.

Table of Contents

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