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Rules of Civility : The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace by Richard Brookhiser and George Washington (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press
ISBN-100813922186
ISBN-139780813922188
eBay Product ID (ePID)2461282
Product Key Features
Number of Pages96 Pages
Publication NameRules of Civility : the 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
SubjectEtiquette, United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Presidents & Heads of State
TypeNot Available
Subject AreaReference, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorRichard Brookhiser, George Washington
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight11.7 Oz
Item Length7.2 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2002-044378
ReviewsBrookhiser adds his own amusing afterthoughts to George Washington's collection of behavior rules that were badly needed in the eighteenth century. Since civility is in even worse disrepair today, it's too bad that the father of our country can't make a return visit!., According to both his contemporaries and his biographers, Washington valued good manners and painstakingly cultivated his own brand of formal courtesy. These seemingly quaint and archaic instructions, accompanied by the editor's often humorous commentaries... offer timeless suggestions on how to cope with the complexities of social discourse.... Delightful., "According to both his contemporaries and his biographers, Washington valued good manners and painstakingly cultivated his own brand of formal courtesy. These seemingly quaint and archaic instructions, accompanied by the editor's often humorous commentaries... offer timeless suggestions on how to cope with the complexities of social discourse.... Delightful." -- Booklist
Dewey Edition21
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal973.4/1/092
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
SynopsisAs a young man, George Washington admired and copied into a little notebook 110 rules for civil behavior that originated from a Jesuit textbook. Washington took these rules very much to heart, and that handwritten list remained with him throughout his life, serving as inspiring guidance from his military days at Valley Forge and Yorktown to his two terms as president.Guidance that at first sounds archaic, it is in fact just as relevant as--indeed, possibly more necessary than--it was nearly three hundred years ago. Richard Brookhiser makes clear the pertinence of these rules for modern readers and proposes that now more than ever we will be wise to follow the modest example of such a great man. Witty and insightful, Brookhiser's commentary offers real-world instruction in the lost art of self-discipline, and his new preface provides a compelling and timely context in which to employ these guidelines today.
LC Classification NumberE312.782003
