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

A Baltimore blue blood with a populist heart, Emily Post helped the masses live the American Dream with her hugely popular book, Etiquette. This is the first biography of that iconic woman whose name stands for good manners.

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