We live in a world that's very different from the one in which Emily Post came of age. Many of us who are nice (but who also sometimes say "(f*ck)" are frequently at a loss for guidelines about how to be a good person who deals effectively with the increasing onslaught of rudeness we all encounter. To lead us out of the miasma of modern mannerlessness, advice columnist Amy Alkon rips the doily off the manners genre and gives us a new set of rules for our twenty first century lives. We live in societies too big for our brains, lacking the constraints on bad behavior that we had in the small bands we evolved in. We can reimpose those constraints and avoid being one of the rude, and stand up to those who are. Foregoing prissy advice on which utensil to use, Alkon answers the twenty first century's most burning questions about manners.