{"product_id":"emily-post-daughter-of-the-gilded-age-mistress-of-american-manners-9780812967418","title":"Emily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners","description":"In an engaging book that sweeps from the Gilded Age to the 1960s, award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first authoritative biography of \u003cb\u003eEmily Post\u003c\/b\u003e, who changed the mindset of millions of Americans with \u003ci\u003eEtiquette\u003c\/i\u003e, a perennial bestseller and touchstone of proper behavior. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA daughter of high society and one of Manhattan's most sought-after debutantes, Emily Price married financier Edwin Post. It was a hopeful union that ended in scandalous divorce. But the trauma forced Emily Post to become her own person. After writing novels for fifteen years, Emily took on a different sort of project. When it debuted in 1922, \u003ci\u003eEtiquette \u003c\/i\u003erepresented a fifty-year-old woman at her wisest-and a country at its wildest. Claridge addresses the secret of \u003ci\u003eEtiquette\u003c\/i\u003e's tremendous success and gives us a panoramic view of the culture from which it took its shape, as its author meticulously updated her book twice a decade to keep it consistent with America's constantly changing social landscape. Now, nearly fifty years after Emily Post's death, we still feel her enormous influence on how we think Best Society should behave\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura Claridge is the author of several books, including \u003cb\u003eNorman Rockwell: A Life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eEmily Post: Daughter of the Gilded Age\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Mistress of American Manners\u003c\/i\u003e received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant and won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. Claridge received her Ph.D. in British Romanticism and literary theory and was a tenured professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis until 1997. She has written features and reviews for \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e and has appeared frequently in the national media, including \u003ci\u003eToday, CNN, \u003c\/i\u003e NPR, and the BBC. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917883248914,"sku":"9780812967418","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6dd75977-8e52-40df-a91c-1b951c5936df.jpg?v=1738871833","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/emily-post-daughter-of-the-gilded-age-mistress-of-american-manners-9780812967418","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}