The Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry

By Brad Miner

Book Overview

At a time of astonishing confusion about what it means to be a man, Brad Miner has recovered the oldest and best ideal of manhood: the gentleman. Reviving a thousand-year tradition of chivalry, honor,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 189062652X
• ISBN13: 9781890626525
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Spence Publishing Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

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essential reading

While other reviewers have done an admirable job, I would merely like to point out that this book's strengths are much greater than the sum of any perceived weaknesses. I have most books available on "The Art of The Gentleman" and consider this one a most valuable addition. If you are serious in pursuing this lifelong quest, this volume will prove essential. Even now it is at my side since I am in the midst of a third re-reading.

a modern guide to an age-less image of a man's ideal

The modern era has left void the definition of an ideal Man. If the "primitive wild man" of the men's movement leaves you thinking there must be another option, then Mr. Miner's "Compleat Gentleman" is for you. Using a concise (very concise) review of selected ages, Mr. Miner simultaneously presents an image of the ideal "compleat gentleman" and lays out several broad avenues for further investigation should you care to take him on. I found his book both a call to which I could aspire and a guide to start me on my way.

Outstanding "History of the Idea of the Gentleman"

Many men reflect in quiet moments that they are not, perhaps, what something inside them longs to be. We have every material comfort our ancestors longed for, and many they couldn't have conceived, and yet, as our President put it in 2000, so much prosperity, to so little purpose. What is lacking is these men are not gentlemen, or at least that they are intellectually divorced from the ideal. This book is an outstanding review of the entire idea, grown so alien to us in our age of no-fault divorce, baby-daddies and crass materialism.As Miner sets forth in his introduction, the book is neither a manifesto nor a particular call to action, but instead a concise (a bit too concise, in my opinion) history of what it has meant to be a gentleman, from the birth of the idea to what it means to be a gentleman in the modern world.I cannot imagine a better gift for a young gentleman on the verge of graduation. This book has the potential to make the reader a better man.