Emily Post: Daughter of the Guilded Age, Mistress of American Manners (Audiobook)

from lschwoob

I have to honestly say I probably would have never read this book if I had not found it on Library Thing. I often wondered how Emily Post became an expert on etiquette and after reading Laura Claridge's well-written biography I now know. I would recommend this book to anyone who is curious about ...

from BookBully

My Southern heritage rejoiced this past weekend when I noticed a small piece in the "Business" section of the Sunday New York Times: the great-great granddaughter of Emily Post now has an "Etiquette" website. Ah, to think that civility could become the new Blackberry. If Emily Post had anything t...

from Ganeshaka

This is a monumental book, and not a quick read. Be prepared to work a bit. Emily Post's life spanned a period that began with the rapid growth of the United States after the Civil War and ended with the Kennedy era. She engaged fully the enormous changes that occurred in American society over th...

from jemsw

When I mentioned to my step-mother that I was reading a biography of Emily Post, she asked me whether Post had ever done anything "except be proper all the time." Her question strikes at the heart of a fundamental misconception about Post, one that haunted her in her own time and persists into ou...

from Janisdoll

I was excited to get this book because I was interested in reading about this iconic woman. Unfortunately, I don't think this book ever gets to be a readable story of a life. I can't say for sure, because I have never been able to get very far before dozing off. I give the author 5 stars for the ...