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New York Times Bestseller Peter Post's Essential Manners for Men and Playing Through: A Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Gulf are two books no man should be without. Whether in business, sports, or leisure, these etiquette books will get you through anything.

Both books are hardcovers.

Review from Publisher's Weekly for Essential Manners for Men:

A man usually seeks etiquette tips from three types of people: a sharp woman he admires, a Jeeves, or a stylish metrosexual. In Post, great-grandson to the diamond-tongued Emily Post, he will find a mild-mannered golf companion. In his preface, Post explains that since most men don't want a dry reference book on manners, he set out write a "conversational" book "that men can read right through, from cover to cover." Nonetheless, most readers may still prefer to skim this guide's many subheadings, bullet points and sidebars and head straight to what interests. Post's book is studded with anecdotes taken from a nostalgic domestic universe, where men "wander into the kitchen and pull out all the fixings for a delectable Dagwood sandwich," which Post narrates in the conjugal we-e.g. "over the past few years we've helped organize several monster clambakes on Martha's Vineyard." In this world, women appear as watchdogs and oracles, repeatedly quoted as the ultimate authorities on male behavior. Indeed, Post's etiquette guide becomes a dating guide midway through, and the important "Social Life" section crescendos with a chapter on weddings. He is conservative on technology: in his view, "we have become slaves to the phone" and emails should be considered public documents, without exception. But Post is no enemy of progress: in another section, he offers tips for making effective PowerPoint presentations. For the modern bachelor who wants to give a dinner party, the author provides his personal "Keep It Simple Stupid" entertaining guide, including his favorite recipe (for chicken tarragon), but skips precise rules about how to set a table. Overall, Post appears to have exchanged the mystique of manners for business-casual rules of thumb. Many men might welcome this exchange, and the book should do well among readers who enjoyed Post's The Etiquette Advantage in Business (1999).
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About the author:

Peter Post is a director of The Emily Post Institute and author of five etiquette books, including The Etiquette Advantage in Business: Personal Skills for Professional Success, a completely revised and updated look at the world of business etiquette. As the creator and primary presenter of Emily Post Business Etiquette programs, Peter leads business seminars for companies both in the United States and abroad.

Peter has also written the New York Times bestseller Essential Manners for Men, Essential Manners for Couples, and A Wedding Like No Other (co-written with Peggy Post). His newest book is Playing Through: A Guide to the Unwritten Rules of Golf (Collins Living, August 2008). Since its release, Essential Manners for Men has been reprinted eight times and Peter has done more than 500 media interviews on the subject of men's manners.

Since 2004, Peter has authored The Boston Sunday Globe's weekly question and answer business etiquette advice column, "Etiquette at Work." The column is distributed by the New York Times Syndicate.

Peter conducts hundreds of media interviews annually on topics ranging from CEO ethics to dealing with coworkers with body odor; from dinner party etiquette to confronting "the dark side of email."

One of Emily Post's four great-grandchildren, Peter owns a marketing and public relations agency. He has more than 25 years of experience in marketing, communications, design and education. Peter holds a master's degree in fine art from Pratt Institute and a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.