How to Live Like a Lord Without Really Trying

by Shepherd Mead

A Confidential Manual Prepared as Part of a Survival Kit for Americans Living in Britain, Showing How to Get Rich in England and How to Rise Quickly and Easily to the Top of British Society.

Genres: Humor, Nonfiction

253 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Shepherd Mead was one of those men dogged by success. After graduating from Washington University he went to New York to practice being an intellectual and ended up as a junior executive and then a vice-president of Benton & Bowles. His biting attacks against society only gained him greater fame and success, and he finally resigned and fled to Europe with his wife and three children in 1957. He spent a year in Geneva and then went to England in 1958.

As an author, Mead published over fifteen books, including: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Big Ball of Wax, The Admen, The Four Window Girl, How to Succeed at Business Spying By Trying and How to Succeed in Tennis Without Really Trying.

Reviews

[Letizia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read it in just few days, the first half is very very funny! It shows the most notorious differences between Americans and British about different aspects of life and culture. Recommended to whom wants to laugh for the strangeness of our society.

[Lindsey Sparks · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun little book about being an American living in England in the 60s.

[Joe Reevy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rather dated now and not as funny as 'How to be an Alien', but, being published the year before I came to the UK, I read it as preparation and it still makes me grin now.

[Jennifer Steinhoff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quick, easy, amusing book. Did not really make an impression; entirely forgettable but entertaining.

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really quick read. Funny anecdotes about Americans living in England during the '60s.