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BOOKS

Where it all started. The MG series of essential manners, savvy, and vice. 

“Peculiar, brilliant, funny, smart, and they will turn you into a cool person,” said Augusten Burroughs in Entertainment Weekly. 

Take him at his word.

The best investment you can make in your manners this year.
— Playboy
As refined and potent as single malt Scotch... in the theatre of his personality, Tesauro emerges as a messiah of manners.
— Atlanta magazine

The MODERN GENTLEMAN

A Guide to Essential Manners, Savvy & Vice

Penguin Random House 2012

The modern lover

A Playbook for Suitors, Spouses & Ringless Carousers

Penguin Random House 2004


The O.G. MG. Scour the shelves of tonier collections and you might just stumble upon a rare cloth edition.

Penguin Random House 2002

Russian – DZHENTLMEN: Rukovodstvo po Osnovnym Maneram, Zdravomu Smyslu i Nedostatkam

Spanish – El PERFECTO GENTLEMAN: Guia de Elegancia, Ingenio y Otras Licencias


Tesauro contributed to…

Tesauro wrote the chapters on Viticulture and Palladio Restaurant, as well as the team profiles.

Tesauro contributed the chapter on North Carolina.


And it’s really fun making it into other people’s books…
like these nuggets in Burn the Place and Amaro.

Check out Tesauro’s sterling essay on the rise of Virginia as a world-class wine region.