Shepherd Mead, bestselling author of How to Succeed in Business
without Really Trying, came to live in England with his family in
1958. Six years later he published a satirical handbook for fellow
Americans to guide them through the nuances of British culture and
save them from blunders: 'Write down now that pants always mean
underpants', he advises. 'What you wear out in the open are
trousers. Mistakes in this area can lead to nasty
misunderstandings.' Structured around the fictional experience of
an American couple Peggy and Buckley Brash and their two children,
the book covers such topics as 'How to Dress in England', 'The
Dream House and How to Rebuild it', and 'How to Live with the Upper
Classes Without Having Any Money'. Through the Brash family's
encounters with the British and their bewildered conversations with
each other as they attempt to interpret an alien way of life, Mead
answers pertinent questions such as 'Do English schools create sex
madness?' and 'Is England really a pest hole?' with quirky and
affectionate humour. Written with the light touch and incisive wit
which brought Mead such success with his earlier book, and deftly
illustrated with dynamic cartoons, How to Live Like A Lord without
Really Trying is packed with gems on Anglo-American differences and
pithy advice which tells us as much about the British of the 1960s
as it does about their visitors from across the Pond.
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