A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals and Misbehavior in Modern America

Caldwell, Mark

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ISBN 10: 0312204329 ISBN 13: 9780312204327

Published by Picador USA, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1999

Language: English

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A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals and Misbehavior in Modern America

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Picador USA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

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1999

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English

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0312204329

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9780312204327

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Hardcover

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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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