{"product_id":"gentlemen-s-blood-book-barbara-holland-9781582343662","title":"Gentlemen's Blood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Holland guides us lightheartedly through the touchy subject of honor-and how to defend it-in this compulsively readable history of dueling's first thousand years.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by sword and pistol, with thousands of honorable men-and not-so-honorable women-giving lives and limbs to wipe out an insult or prove a point. Here are their stories, from Dumas's \u003ci\u003eThree Musketeers\u003c\/i\u003e to America's founding fathers, including the New Orleans doctors who settled their medical disagreements under The Oaks, the short-lived newspaper editors of America's South and West, and certain twenty-first-century Parisian politicians. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe duel was essential to private, public, and political life. Where it was technically illegal, those who followed the elaborate codes of procedure were seldom prosecuted and rarely convicted: they were obeying a grand old tradition. \u003ci\u003eGentlemen's Blood\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive guide to this courtly violence, from an author called a witty curmudgeon by George Will and a national treasure by the \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e, whose style, according to \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, fits somewhere between E.B. White and Andy Rooney. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Smithsonian Magazine Selection.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49614478246161,"sku":"GOR001912006","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50146975645969,"sku":"CIN1582343667G","price":5.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50537957851409,"sku":"GOR001912314","price":19.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51327409324305,"sku":"CIN1582343667VG","price":6.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1582343667.jpg?v=1751118898","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/gentlemen-s-blood-book-barbara-holland-9781582343662","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}