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

“Here is a welcome reminder that men can be gentlemen without turning into ladies-or louts.”-Michelle Malkin"Miner writes with wit and charm."-Wall Street JournalThe Gentleman: An Endangered Species?The catalog of masculine sins grows by the day-mansplaining, manspreading, toxic masculinity-reflecting our confusion over what it means to be a man.Is a man’s only choice between the brutish, rutting #MeToo lout and the gelded imitation woman, endlessly sensitive and fun to go shopping with?No.Brad Miner invites you to discover the oldest and best model of manhood- the gentleman.In this tour de force of popular history and gentlemanly persuasion, Miner lays out the thousand-year history of this forgotten ideal and makes a compelling case for its modern revival. Three masculine archetypes emerge here-the warrior, the lover, and the monk-forming the character of “the compleat gentleman.” He cultivates a martial spirit in defense of the true and the beautiful.He treats the opposite sex with p