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Emily Post
Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners
Author: Laura Claridge
Narrator: Christine Williams
Unabridged: 18 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 10/14/2008
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Synopsis
The first biography of the iconic woman whose name stands for good manners, Emily Post tells the story of a woman who steadfastly recorded the shifting, tumultuous historical epochs that shaped herand that she helped shape. From the excesses of the late nineteenthcentury Gilded Age, through the horrors of World War I, to the transformations of the Roaring Twenties that gave birth to her magisterial Etiquette, Emily Post unfailingly took the measure of her era. A Baltimore blue blood with a populist heart, she helped the masses live the American dream with her hugely popular book, which has been continuously in print for over eightyfive years.