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“laura claridge”

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  • Emily Post

    Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners

    by Laura Claridge ...
    “What would Emily Post do?” Even today, Americans cite the author of the perennial bestseller Etiquette as a touchstone for proper behavior. But who was the woman behind the myth, the authority on good manners who has outlasted all comers? Award-winning author Laura Claridge presents the first authoritative biography of the unforgettable woman who changed the mindset of millions of Americans, an ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Norman Rockwell

    by Laura Claridge ...
    Norman Rockwell’s tremendously successful, prolific career as a painter and illustrator has rendered him a twentieth-century American icon. However, the very popularity and accessibility of his idealized, nostalgic depictions of middleclass life have caused him to be considered not a serious artist but a “mere illustrator”–a disparagement only reinforced by the hundreds of memorable covers he drew ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Lady with the Borzoi

    Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire

    by Laura Claridge ...
    The untold story of Blanche Knopf, the singular woman who helped define American literatureLeft off her company's fifth anniversary tribute but described by Thomas Mann as "the soul of the firm," Blanche Knopf began her career when she founded Alfred A. Knopf with her husband in 1915. With her finger on the pulse of a rapidly changing culture, Blanche quickly became a driving force behind the firm ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Emily Post

    Daughter of the Gilded Age, Mistress of American Manners

    by Laura Claridge ...
    Narrated by Christine Williams ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 14 min

    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 ... Read more

    $27.95 USD

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