Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harasssment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissings and Other Lapses in Civility - Hardcover

Martin, Judith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517701642 ISBN 13: 9780517701645

Verlag: Random House Value Publications, 1996

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Book by Martin Judith

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The best-selling author of Miss Manners' Guide to Excrutiatingly Correct Behavior combines essays, commentary, and answers as she examines the role of etiquette in free speech, political correctness, gender relations, and other contemporary issues. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

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American history that has shown a heightened sensitivity toward the ideals of democracy, self-expression, freedom, and individual rights, we are paradoxically experiencing a breakdown in our nation's ability to function as a civil people.

From athletes who shout obscenities on national television to surgeons who blast their favorite music while operating, from gang members who kill those who've "dissed" them to mourners who treat funerals casually, we trample over the rights of others in a savage pursuit of individual agendas. We have cashed in etiquette (yes, the "E word") for a generous helping of self-importance, and the exchange is crippling our ability to function as a civil society.

In her ground-breaking new book,MISS MANNERS RESCUES CIVILIZATION: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing and Other Lapses in Civility, Judith Martin puts etiquette on the public agenda in response to our nation's cry for a return to civility.

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• Verlag: Random House Value Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0517701642
• ISBN 13: 9780517701645
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 544