A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
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Language: English
Published by Picador USA, 1999
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- Title
- A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals, and Misbehavior in Modern America
- Author
- Caldwell, Mark
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312204329
- ISBN 13
- 9780312204327
A respected social critic offers an insightful and amusing exploration of the slow death of manners and the steady triumph of boorishness in America, showing how the decline of manners has a long and socially significant history. 25,000 first printing.
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Mark Caldwell is a literary critic and the author of an acclaimed socio-medical history of tuberculosis in America, The Last Crusade. He teaches at Fordham University and lives in Manhattan and New York's Hudson Valley.
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