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Charm School - A Reading List

Ill-mannered Selections from the Schmulowitz Collection ofWit & Humor

  • Letitia Baldrige
    Letitia Baldrige’s More Than Manners! Raising Today’s Kids to Have Kind Manners and Good Hearts
    New York: Rawson Associates, 1997
  • John Bridges
    50 Things Every Young Gentleman Should Know: What to Do, When to Do It and Why
    Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, 2006
  • Mark Caldwell
    A Short History of Rudeness: Manners, Morals and Misbehavior in Modern America
    New York: Picador USA, 1999
  • Meryl Cohn
    “Do What I Say”: Ms. Behavior’s Guide to Gay and Lesbian Etiquette
    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995
  • Daniel Curzon
    The Joyful Blue Book of Gracious Gay Etiquette
    San Francisco: IGNA Book, 1982
  • Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
    Letters to His Son and Others
    London: Dent, 1984
  • Harriette Cole
    How to Be: Contemporary Etiquette for African Americans
    New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, c1999
  • Quentin Crisp
    Manners from Heaven: A Divine Guide to Good Behaviour
    New York: Harper & Row, 1984
  • Benjamin Darling
    Tips for Teens: Telephone Tactics, Petting Practices and Other Milestones On the Road to Popularity
    San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1994
  • Norine Dresser
    Come as You Aren’t! Feeling At Home with Multicultural Celebrations
    Lanham, Md.: M. Evans, 2006
  • Norbert Elias
    The History of Manners (The Civilizing Process, vol. 1)
    New York: Pantheon Books, 1982
  • Frederick James Furnivall
    The Babees’ Book: Medieval Manners for the Young
    London, Chatto andWindus; New York, Duffield, 1908
  • John F. Kasson
    Rudeness and Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America
    New York: Hill andWang, 1990
  • Sarah Kortum
    The Hatless Man: An Anthology of Odd and Forgotten Manners
    New York: Viking, 1995
  • Judith Martin
    Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior
    New York:W.W. Norton, 2005
  • Erin McKean
    The Office Professional’s Guide
    New York: Oxford University Press, 2003
  • Mary Mitchell
    Dear Ms. Demeanor: The Young Person’s Etiquette Guide to Handling Any Social Situation With Confidence and Grace
    Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1994
  • Phineas Mollod
    The Modern Gentleman: A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy and Vice
    Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2002
  • Terri Morrison
    Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: The Bestselling Guide to Doing Business in More Than 60 Countries
    Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, 2006
  • Alice Bonzi Mothershead
    Dining Customs Around the World
    Garrett Park, Md.: Garrett Park Press, 1982
  • Alex J. Packer.
    The How Rude! Handbook of Family Manners for Teens: Avoiding Strife in Family Life
    Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Pub., 2004
  • Lynn Peril
    Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
    New York: Norton, 2002
  • Steven Petrow
    The Essential Book of Gay Manners and Etiquette
    New York: HarperPerennial, 1995
  • Peggy Post, ed.
    Emily Post’s Etiquette
    New York: HarperCollins, 2004
  • Arthur M. Schlesinger
    Learning How to Behave: A Historical Study of American Etiquette Books
    New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946
  • Amy Sedaris
    I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
    New York:Warner Books, 2006
  • Douglas Sutherland
    The English Gentleman
    London: Prion, 2001
  • Robert I. Sutton
    The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t
    New York:Warner Business Books, 2007
  • Lyn Truss
    Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today
    New York: Gotham Books, 2005
  • Margaret Visser
    The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners
    New York: GroveWeidenfeld, 1991
  • Joan Wildeblood
    The Polite World: A Guide to English Manners and Deportment from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century
    London, New York: Oxford University Press, 1965

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