Monday, May 19, 2008

A Book in Review – A Short History of Rudeness

Book Count: 42

A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals and Misbehaviors in Modern America BY: Mark Caldwell
Non-Fiction: popular culture, history 243 pages 1999
This book is about people’s feelings that manners are in decline in modern America and what they feel about that. It also is a history of how manners and ideas about them have changed over time and what people have done to effect manners. It includes sections on manners in various parts of life ranging from chat rooms, parenting, formal events to race and gender considerations. It deals with the division between people that think manners relate to morals and those that think it is merely about being polite and/or proper acting.

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