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How to be Cool

The 150 Essential Idols, Ideals and Other Cool S***

Thomas W Hodgkinson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Icon Books

Published:3rd Nov '16

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From the co-author of the brilliant How to Sound Cultured, a wry and incisive guide to the people and ideas that have defined cool.

Cool can't be taught. That's the received wisdom, yet this wry, entertaining compendium by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (author of the indispensable How to Sound Cultured) shows that, on the contrary, anyone can increase their cool quotient by learning from the masters and the methods of the past.



It's never an easy journey. But to set yourself on the path to true cool, you'll need this invaluable roadmap.

This is a cool book. I'm a 69-year-old Republican who lives on a tree farm and drives a station wagon. I know everything about being uncool. And Thomas W. Hodgkinson is cool with that. Read his book and find out how you're a fool to be cool if you can't dare to be square. It's all cool. -- PJ O'Rourke
Being hip is no longer a young person's game * The Daily Telegraph *

ISBN: 9781785781605

Dimensions: 204mm x 138mm x 28mm

Weight: 366g

356 pages