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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 her--and that she helped shape. From the excesses of the late nineteenth-century 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 eighty-five years.

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Laura Claridge received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant in 2005 as well as the J. Anthony Lukas Award for Emily Post as a work in progress. Her books, which include Norman Rockwell: A Life, have been translated into multiple languages. The author has frequently appeared in the media, including NBC, BBC, CSPAN, NPR and The Today Show. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley. Christine Williams is a singer and actor based in Ashland, Oregon. Her performance credits include productions at regional theaters and on concert stages across the country and around the world, from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Barbican Centre in London to the Aspen Music Festival and the Grotowski Institute in Poland.

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