The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy and Vice music & pop culture From the Samuel Johnson prize-winning

From the Samuel Johnson prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine

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The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy and Vice music & pop culture From the Samuel Johnson prize-winningTHE MODERN GENTLEMAN is a visually stimulating, rib tickling, thought provoking sourcebook of manners and mischief for the 21st century male. The book offers a panoramic snapshot of the gentleman: witty and poignant, traditional but spontaneous, flirtatious yet courting. Discussions range from the classic (Motoring, Oenophilia) and serious (Secrets & Lies, The Good Husband), to the racy (Kink & Fetish, To the Power of 3) and silly (Bumper Stickers,