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

by John Bridges

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401603351
• ISBN13: 9781401603359
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.5" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Common sense, current and at times funny

Don't laugh. This is a very enjoyable book full of common sense manners that too often are forgotten. I especially like how it has been updated to reflect our current times - cell phones and email are amongst the topics addressed. Only criticism: I have a couple of other books in the series, and there is common material between them. And I disagree on the need to put down the toilet seat. I know to look!

A must have for gentlemen!

Loaded with practical approaches to being a gentleman (lost art) in todays archaic society. An Emily Post for men. Quirky anecdotes on manners, dress, dating, etc. Applications for how to host a party to formal dining. Makes a good gift for the young man coming of age!

Should be required reading for every man!

This book should be required reading for every man. My husband has much better manners after reading it. It's full of little 1-4 sentence rules. I think something like Emily Post would have intimidated him, but this was just the ticket. He liked it so much that he bought copies for his bachelor friends and told them to read it if they wanted to impress the ladies.

An excellent resource

In this book, author John Bridges gives his advice on how to be a gentleman. For the most part, the book is built around a series of short homilies, each of which covers a subject such as: A Gentleman Attends a Wedding, How to Seat a Table, How to Leave a Tip, and much more. Connecting the homilies are a series of maxims that give advice in the form of: a gentleman does not..., a gentleman keeps..., etc. While some of this book sounds out-of-date in the modern scene, containing as it does so much information on formal dining, it is a goldmine of advice for all social occasions. If you wish to polish your image, then I would recommend this book to you. It is short, and to the point, and very informative.

Etiquette for the Educated Man

This easy to read book makes manners a matter of preference. The educated man can make a decision to accept the authors guideline or not. I personally do not have much occasion to entertain large parties in my home - so I feel no need to have every piece of silverware known to man, but if I needed to help host a large party, I would be prepared. I like the chapter breakdown and the way subjects intertwine, allowing for fast referencing should the need occur. I consider myself a man pretty in tune with etiquette but this was a good shot in the arm. This book is great for those who might not know the basics or for one who might be very well mannered. This Christmas all my Brothers-in-Law and nephews are getting this book plus a stack of Thank you notes.