What can the word 'gentleman' have to do with 21st-century America? A lot.Miner writes with wit and charm.Wall Street Journal

Miner argues that bravery, respect for women, and devotion to the truth are needed more than ever.Newsday

There's good reason to believe [Miner is] right.Washington Post

A romp through history.Recommended.Library Journal

an engaging survey of knighthood, warfare, and courtship.Miners theories are consistently entertaining.Publishers Weekly

The compleat gentleman is a fellow you may not recognize at first. He is very much like the medieval knight and the Victorian gentleman, except that he has a more realistic view of women. He is a conservative liberal, a man educated in tradition but not bound by it. He is like a warrior because he knows that there are things worth fighting forand he will fight. He is a lover because he allows his wife and family to liberate him from the tyranny of ego. He is like a monk because he employs learning to unlock the mysteries of the human heart. He has that co-mingling of restraint and detachment that we can easily call cool.Brad Miner

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, and heroism, The Compleat Gentleman provides the essential model for twenty-first-century masculinity.

Miners gentleman stands out for his dignity, restraint, and discernment. He rejects the notion that one way of behaving is as good as another. He belongs to an aristocracy of virtue, not of wealth or birth. Proposing neither a club nor a movement, Miner describes a lofty code of manly conduct, which, far from threatening democracy, is necessary for its survival. The Compleat Gentleman is filled with examples from the past and the present of the man our increasingly uncivilized age demands.

Brad Miner is an executive editor at Bookspan and editor of its conservative book club, American Compass. A former literary editor of National Review, he is the author of several books, including The Concise Conservative Encyclopedia.

Christopher Lane is an award-winning actor, director, and narrator. Earning rave reviews on every book he has narrated for Blackstone, he received the coveted Audie Award in 2004. He lives in Washington, D.C.