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A Complete Guide to Etiquette
Scribner
November 2003
On Sale: November 18, 2003
736 pages
ISBN: 074321062X
EAN: 9780743210621
Hardcover
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Self-Help | Non-Fiction
THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO MANNERS, REVISED AND UPDATED TO
ACCOMODATE TODAY'S HIGH-SPEED LIFESTYLES, SHIFTING VALUES,
AND EVER-EVOLVING DEFINITION OF FAMILY. Letitia Baldrige
is universally recognized as the country's leading authority
on executive, domestic, and social manners. She began
writing on manners and protocol during her diplomatic
service in 1949, and she has been hailed on the cover of
Time magazine as "America's leading arbiter of
manners." Originally published in 1989, her Complete
Guide to New Manners has now been thoroughly revised and
updated to incorporate the changing social conventions and
enormous technological advances of the past fifteen
years. Baldrige was the first etiquette writer to
advise extensively on the subject of manners in the
workplace. With her legendary background in both the
government and business worlds, she remains the prime
authority on the integration of goals that often seem at
odds with one another -- namely, family, work, and pleasure.
Baldrige provides fresh guidelines on etiquette at work and
in every form of communication, from letters to emails to
cell phone calls. She also updates the way we approach
the traditional rites of passage -- weddings, funerals,
religious ceremonies, gatherings large and small. Here are
authoritative answers to the etiquette questions and issues
involved in nontraditional family relationships --
stepfamilies, adult children returning home, elderly parents
moving in, gays and lesbians in the family, dating for the
newly single, and the myriad complications that spring from
divorce. Through it all, Baldrige does not forget the
essence of manners: they are an expression of love and care,
and they are under our control. New Manners for New
Times is a comprehensive encyclopedia that will lead
readers confidently and correctly through the maze of
lifestyles, customs, business, and ways of relating to
others in this new, complex millennium. But it is, above
all, a very personal statement.
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