Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners

Engrossing history book

At 453 pages, this is for history buffs interested in the late 19th-early 20th century. Laura Claridge did exhaustive research not only into Emily Post but her parents and 4 grandparents. All of them were interesting people, and the extensive discussion of Emily Post's father, the architect Bruce Price is absorbing if you're interested in New York architecture. Expecting to learn about the famous (to Baby Boomers and older) source of etiquette, I have learned much more about early automobiles, early 20th century architecture, debutante customs, yacht clubs and more. Not a page-turner, but it is filled with who-knew-that details; this feels like a history text I gladly read even though I was never a history major.

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how could the writer waste so much space on this boring woman

this woman comes across as rigid and boring. Stuffy and truly unenlightened, a woman who could not reach across a room without worrying about whether she was making an etiquette mistake. Dull, vapid and most important she had no true friends.

she lived in an exciting time in America but couldn't get out of her own way.

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BORING AND TEDIOUS. THE SUBJECT OF ETIQUETTE DOESN'T BEGIN UNTIL PG. 255 FOR ONLY A FEW PAGES THEN TALKS ABOUT HER BOXES OF PUZZLES. HO HUM!

rEAD wHITE tIGER."!!!

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