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A Short History of Rudeness
Mark Caldwell
Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
Picador
July 2000
288 pages
ISBN: 0312263899
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
The perceived breakdown of civility has in recent years
become a national obsession, and our modern climate of
boorishness has cultivated a host of etiquette watchdogs,
like Miss Manners and Martha Stewart, who defend us against
an onslaught of nastiness. Touching on aspects of both our
public and private lives, including work, family, and sex,
literary and social critic Mark Caldwell examines how the
rules of behavior inevitably change and explains why, no
matter how hard we try, we can never return to a golden era
of civilized manners and mores.
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